Chapter 1. Introducing Crystal Enterprise

In this chapter

Crystal Enterprise 8.5 Overview

Crystal Enterprise Is “Business Intelligence”

Key Features of Crystal Enterprise

Customizing Crystal Enterprise

Determining How Users Will Get Their Information

Crystal Enterprise: An Information Infrastructure

Building an Information Infrastructure with Crystal Enterprise

The Real Value of Crystal Enterprise: Content

Adding Ad-Hoc Query Capability to Crystal Enterprise

If nothing else, this book offers one guarantee: The amount of information that organizations capture and deliver will continue to grow. Not only will the amount of information that organizations manage continue to grow, but also it will grow at a faster pace over the next 3 to 5 years than a combination of the previous 20 years. Another safe assumption is that the number of devices and platforms from which data is received and to which information is sent will continue to expand as well.