Crystal Enterprise and Provida:
Provida is a consulting firm with offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane
that specialises in selling and implementing Crystal Enterprise. Training
in Crystal Enterprise is also available.
Crystal Enterprise Product
Information:
Consulting
services related to the implementation and support of Crystal Reports software
are available for medium to large Australian businesses in Sydney, Melbourne,
Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth. See the Services link above.
Crystal Enterprise is a powerful,
next-generation enterprise reporting solution that streamlines
delivery of mission-critical information. It helps organizations
improve decision-making and business performance by providing users
with secure, self-service access to data across systems and business
units. Crystal Enterprise helps you:
Increase productivity through better information delivery and
management
Today's web-speed need for information is forcing organizations to
ensure that important corporate information can be leveraged and
distributed to internal staff, customers, partners and suppliers to
ensure maximum productivity and optimum profitability. Most
organizations manage a variety of information scattered across an
organization. Some of the data is buried inside a CRM system, some in
complex multi-dimensional data sources usually only accessed by
skilled analysts, and still other data is readily available, but users
don’t have the knowledge to access and query the sources.
By providing near universal data access, Crystal Enterprise gives
organizations the ability to build self-service access points where
users can view reports from across a broad range of enterprise data
sources.
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Adapt faster
to evolving business requirements
As organizations struggle to manage and deliver valuable information
to end users, they find themselves solving very similar problems with
very different tools and technologies leading to a bewildering array
of tools and applications. For example, an extranet application that
gives suppliers access to inventory data bears no resemblance to the
reporting application that provides high-level inventory flow to
senior managers. Same data, similar problem, completely different
information management and delivery system.
These current approaches mean that every new project starts with
solving the same core information management and delivery challenge,
but in a limited way that renders the solutions ineffective for other
similar problems. This problem can reach epidemic proportions as
organizations move to more web-centric business models and demands for
information scale up exponentially.
At the core, organizations need a complete solution to their
information management problems that provides a foundation on which
they can build a range of different web-based applications that
provide information access to end users.
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Deploy a highly flexible and customizable web-based reporting solution
Crystal Enterprise delivers essential web-based information management
and delivery infrastructure for organizations to deliver valuable
enterprise information to end users. It provides organizations with a
comprehensive platform for building, running and managing an
enterprise reporting system.
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Deliver reports at web-speed
What does web-speed mean? As the Web becomes the standard for
accessing corporate reports, end users have higher expectations of
availability and speed at which they can get to information. Crystal
Enterprise embraces the web model of instant access to information by
streamlining the process of accessing and interacting with structured
content. Crystal Enterprise is optimized to meet the needs of
corporate web-based reporting, ensuring that users get the information
they need quickly, whether through regularly scheduled or on-demand
reports.
Crystal Enterprise is optimized for efficient distribution of
interactive reports via corporate portal, intranet, extranet, Internet
applications. Next-generation report processing, caching and rendering
technology ensure fast delivery of highly interactive information to
end users. It provides the user security, search capabilities, report
presentation, and report navigation capabilities that are fundamental
to providing end users with relevant information. All of this
functionality (including drill-down, charting, geographic mapping and
hyperlinking) is delivered in a zero-client, thin-wire environment.
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Build information
rich web applications
Crystal Enterprise delivers a complete platform for rapidly building
and deploying data-driven intranet, extranet and Internet
applications. Organizations can quickly build enterprise reporting
applications, integrate reporting into existing corporate websites or
create custom applications to meet specific business needs.
Whether the need is for a simple listing of reports on a web page,
integration of structured information access into a corporate portal
or complex data-driven extranet application, Crystal Enterprise
provides flexible customization and integration options.
Providing powerful tools for developers, Crystal Enterprise completely
integrates with familiar development environments, leveraging web and
Visual Basic development skills that already exist within most
organizations.
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Add Value and
Scalability to Crystal Reports
The primary concerns of many IT organizations today include security,
manageability, scalability, performance and reliability of reporting
systems. Crystal Enterprise extends the value and scalability of
Crystal Reports – the world standard for reporting. With potentially
hundreds and thousands of mission-critical reports serving all facets
of the organization, Crystal Enterprise provides organizations with an
immensely scalable, secure, web-based management and delivery system
for Crystal .rpt files to any authorized user, inside the organization
or beyond. Investments in product, report development time and
training are preserved.
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Establish a mission-critical infrastructure for enterprise reporting
Scalability is the combination of manageability, raw performance and
efficient use of system resources. Crystal Enterprise delivers on all
of these, allowing organizations to scale up (add more processors) or
scale out (add more physical machines) to meet growing user demands.
Our system is built on 4 generations of experience in building
clustered multi-server enterprise systems and delivers web speed
performance for both on-demand and scheduled reports. Special-purpose
server components also help you extract maximum throughput out of a
given piece of hardware. Crystal Enterprise is built to scale to the
enterprise and deliver rich, interactive reports to a broad range of
users.
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Crystal Enterprise
Training Services
Provida offers on-site and customised Crystal
Enterprise training services to suit your
organisations particular needs. Generally training will involve
a trainer visiting your company site and training at least 2 staff.
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Crystal Enterprise Sales
To purchase Crystal Enterprise software, call toll
free 1800 88 00 69 from anywhere in Australia or email
srider@provida.com.au for
current prices.
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