Crystal Reports XI: Official Guide

Introduction

In this introduction

Introduction to Information Delivery 2

Spectrum of Business Objects Product Usage 3

Spectrum of BI Tool Users 6

The Product Family from Business Objects 8

What Is in This Book 10

Equipment Used for This Book 13

Introduction to Information Delivery

Organizations today of all sizes find themselves increasingly awash in data yet hungering for information to help them meet their business objectives. These corporations, from Main Street and Wall Street alike, have spent large amounts of time and money over the past 10 or so years implementing systems to help collect data on and streamline their operations. From monolithic Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems (SAP, PeopleSoft, Oracle, and so on) through Customer ...