Editorial Review

Structured Query Language (SQL), the standard means of specifying what information you want to extract from a relational database, was designed by programmers for programmers. In order to extract values from tables with straight SQL, you have to formulate convoluted statements from field names and cryptic keywords--which doesn't usually leave time available for making business decisions. The makers of Crystal Reports 8.5 Developer Edition understand that writing SQL statements isn't everyone's favorite thing to do, so Crystal Reports 8.5 Developer Edition provides tools that make it easier to extract meaningful information--in the form of charts, tables, and calculated values--from the contents of database management systems like Oracle, Sybase, and Microsoft SQL Server. The developers of Crystal Reports also knew that some people Read more

Editorial Review

Create high-performance reporting designed for the thin-wire environment of the Web with new Seagate Crystal Reports 8 Professional. It's the easiest and most powerful way to create presentation-quality reports from virtually any database and distribute them to desktop and Web users. The five-user version can be installed over a network or on individual desktops. ... Read more

Editorial Review

Create high-performance reporting designed for the thin-wire environment of the Web with new Seagate Crystal Reports 8 Professional. It's the easiestand most powerful way to create presentation-quality reports from virtuallyany database and distribute them to desktop and Web users. A previousversion of Seagate Crystal Reports is required to qualify for the upgrade. ... Read more

Editorial Review

Deliver rich, interactive content from virtually any data source, publish it to the Web, and integrate it within applications with Crystal Reports. The professional edition of Crystal Reports allows you to design interactive, actionable content and deliver it to users across the enterprise. Generate report types like subreports, conditional, summary, cross-tabs, form, drill down, OLAP, top N, multiple details, and mailing labels. Build hyperlinks, charting, mapping, parameters, alerts, add-ins for Excel and Access, sorting, running totals, grouping, top N, and bottom N.Read more

Subjects:  1. Document Management    2. OCR (Optical Character Recognition)    3. Form    4. Reports (Reporting)    5. Computer software (programs)    6. Scanning (Scanners)   

Editorial Review

Crystal Reports allows you to deliver rich, interactive content fromvirtually any data source, publish it to the Web, and integrate it withinapplications. You can create presentation-quality reports in a familiar PC environment, including Microsoft Office. Features include report types (subreports, conditional, summary, cross-tabs, form, drill down, OLAP, top N, multiple details, and mailing labels, for example), hyperlinks, charting, mapping, parameters, alerts, add-ins for Excel and Access, sorting, running totals, grouping, top N, bottom N, image format support, formula editor, expert, and more. The program also provides drivers and support for more than 30 SQL-, ODBC-, OLE DB-, and PC-based data sources, including XML. ... Read more

Reviews (1)

Dont Buy This Junk!
The program is full of holes and traps for the programmer. The new method of including the report in VB programs uses a lot of overhead and slows a VB program down if the number of reports is more then 4 or 5. Some necessary dependacy files are not included and it will not easly load onto computers not using the internet (a great many business computers). Crystal Software includes a 60 days support package that is not at all enough. Just visit the Crystal developer web site to view some of the problems. Save your money and use your older versions until they get it right. ... Read more

Editorial Review

Seagate Crystal Reports Developer Edition builds on the Professional version's presentation-quality reporting and adds the development tools needed to integrate reporting with unprecedented power, control, and flexibility into your Web and Windows applications. You can create the reports your end users demand and integrate them directly into your applications. A previous five-user Seagate Crystal Report version is required to use this upgrade. ... Read more

Editorial Review

Create high performance reporting designed for the thin-wire environment of the Web with new Seagate Crystal Reports 8, Professional. It's the easiest and most powerful way to create presentation-quality reports from virtually any database and distribute them to desktop and web users. 5 User version can be installed over the network or on individual desktops. ... Read more

Editorial Review

Structured Query Language (SQL), the standard means of specifying what information you want to extract from a relational database, was designed by programmers for programmers. In order to extract values from tables with straight SQL, you have to formulate convoluted statements from field names and cryptic keywords--which doesn't usually leave time available for making business decisions. The makers of Crystal Reports 8.5 Developer Edition understand that writing SQL statements isn't everyone's favorite thing to do, so Crystal Reports 8.5 Developer Edition provides tools that make it easier to extract meaningful information--in the form of charts, tables, and calculated values--from the contents of database management systems like Oracle, Sybase, and Microsoft SQL Server. The developers of Crystal Reports also knew that some people Read more

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I Wish I Wish I could write a better review
Reference Manager is a feature rich citation program with the potential to dramatically reduce the time required to format and organize citations.With enough experience it can become realtively intuitive, though some of the special features may take a considerable amount of time to learn.I consider myself an advanced, long-term user.Unfortunately, RM still suffers from some annoying bugs, depending on the Word processor you use.Most of these relate to the font in the title in the bibliograpy.Earlier versions RM would cause titles to appear only as symbols.Version 10 can cause only one type of font to appear (eg."arial") with abstact, and possibly other, categories. The website shamelessly admits the former problem and suggests a way to fix it (which causes the latter problem).Another annoyance is the fact that the formating for many (I would say "all") journals is not perfect.Spaces still appear where they shouldn't or don't appear where they should.Journal name formatting can be a chore as well.In the end, RM may consume more time than it saves.Many of my colleagues have turned to Endnote and have convinced me to switch as well, but at this time I have no experience with Endnote and cannot comment.

An Academic's Dream
Reference Manager is a huge time saver for students as well as professors.Right out of the box, it is very intuitive to figure out how to use this program to insert citations into papers and format your references.A toolbar in Microsoft Word makes it easy to insert citations while you write either individually or en masse.Click, click, click.When you finish the text, you can choose the reference format you need.Get rejected from one journal?You just click a few buttons to reformat your in-text citations and reference list rather than spend hours deleting periods from authors' names.Read more