The product was originally created by Crystal Services Inc. as Quik Reports when
they couldn't find a suitable commercial report writer for their accounting software.
After producing versions 1.0 through 3.0, the company was acquired in 1994 by Seagate
Technology. Crystal Services was combined with Holostic Systems to form the Information
Management Group of Seagate Software, which later rebranded as Crystal Decisions,
and produced versions 4.0 through 9.0. Crystal Decisions was acquired in December
2003 by Business Objects, which has so far produced versions 10, 11 (XI) and the
current version 12 (2008). Business Objects was acquired by SAP on October 8, 2007.
Crystal Reports allows users to graphically design data connections and report layout.
In the Database Expert, users can select and link tables from a wide variety of
data sources, including Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, Oracle databases, Business
Objects Enterprise business views, and local file system information. Fields from
these tables can be placed on the report design surface, and can also be used in
custom formulas, using either BASIC or Crystal's own syntax, which are then placed
on the design surface. Formulas can be evaluated at several phases during report
generation as specified by the developer.
Both fields and formulae have a wide array of formatting options available, which
can be applied absolutely or conditionally. The data can be grouped into bands,
each of which can be split further and conditionally suppressed as needed. Crystal
Reports also supports subreports, graphing, and a limited amount of GIS functionality.
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