crystalreports.com Receives Widespread Praise From Customers; New On-Demand Business Intelligence Solution From Business Objects Focuses on Mid-Sized Organizations

Crystal Reports(R) XI is the industry standard in reporting, andthousands of organizations rely on the solution to better understandand improve their performance. Critical business data already residesin Crystal Reports, and crystalreports.com allows organizations toeasily share that information online. Business Objects customers havebeen previewing crystalreports.com over the past two months, and havehigh praise for this innovative new solution. Here are some of theircomments:

E Team

"We provide emergency software and services that help federal andstate agencies deal with major incidents and disasters -- we've helpedsupport these agencies with everything from 9/11 to HurricaneKatrina," said Eric Kant, director of field operations for E Team."Crystal Reports has long been an important part of our ability todisseminate information and foster communication among disparategovernment agencies and emergency managers. We rely on Crystal Reportsto increase these agencies' insight into response efforts andcoordinate every aspect of disaster recovery such as tracking therequests for housing, recipients of federal aid, gallons of waterdelivered, or calls for police assistance. During Katrina this oftenmeant churning out 30-40 reports each day. With crystalreports.com, wecould provide those critical reporting capabilities more quickly andeasily to a broader community of users. The efficiency of an on-demandsolution would be of great benefit during emergency response, whentime is of the essence."

Frontier Realty Group

"We are a real estate management company with approximately 35owners and 1200 tenants," said Luka Hrstich, property manager ofFrontier Realty Group. "Right now we use a property managementsoftware solution to run our business and we rely on Crystal Reportsto create monthly reporting for our owners. Currently, we convert eachCrystal report into an MS Excel document, print out each report, andthen fax each report to individual owners. With crystalreports.com, wewill now be able to share those reports in their original, rich visualformat and save the time wasted in converting, printing, and faxingeach of the monthly reports."

AbeTech

"As a small company with about 85 employees and a small IT staff,I am excited to see crystalreports.com," said Tim Anderson, chiefoperating officer of AbeTech. "This is an opportunity for us to takeadvantage of some of the best features of the BusinessObjects XIplatform, without requiring additional IT resources. "We currently useCrystal Reports to communicate with our vendors, clients, and accountmanagers by exporting reports to PDF files and distributing them viae-mail. But emailing PDF files is not efficient and we can't offer theinformation broadly throughout our client and vendor base. Withcrystalreports.com, we can point each client to a specific URL wherethey can see the contents of their report folders, and we can schedulewhen the reports are published. This would be our Holy Grail in clientcommunications. Our mission is to be the best in client service in ourindustry. A solution like crystalreports.com helps us get closer toour clients and is critical to our future success."

Town Lake Animal Shelter

"The City of Austin implements a myriad of programs to meet theneeds of the general public and tracks a huge amount of dataassociated with those programs," said Duron Davis, systems supporttechnician at Town Lake Animal Shelter. "Our internal clients requirea flexible, versatile resource that lets us link the maximum number ofpeople with the broadest scope of information in as little time aspossible. We believe that crystalreports.com can fulfill thoserequirements. Whether we're tracking bird flu or pet birds, we'll nowbe able to share current information with any of our customers orcoworkers instantaneously, where before it took days and theinformation was always dated. crystalreports.com looks like yetanother well-designed, cutting-edge software solution by BusinessObjects that will adequately meet our needs."

Applied Voice & Speech Technologies (AVST)

"We are a small shop of approximately 80 people and have beenusing Crystal Reports for about two years. We have created someamazing reports but don't have a practical or cost effective way todistribute them," said Denny Michael, vice president of marketing atAVST. "We could send a PDF report to the sales team that is over ahundred pages, but that's not practical. Nor is expanding our ITinfrastructure. With crystalreports.com, we can bridge that gap. Beingable to use Crystal Reports on demand takes reporting and distributingcritical data to the next level."

Pike County Probation Office

"With crystalreports.com, we can meet the requirements of certainusers who need access to dynamic reports instead of flat filesdelivered via e-mail or through our extranet," said Brian Steuhl,probation officer and criminal justice coordinator at Pike CountyProbation Office. "In addition, the new functionality incrystalreports.com will allow IT departments to deliver the reports inan automated fashion, which will reduce the overall burden of reportdelivery and save valuable IT resources. I am excited to see how thisservice will fit into our existing Business Objects architecture andhelp us expand the benefits of Crystal Reports to a greater number ofend users."

For more information on crystalreports.com and other BusinessObjects solutions for the mid-market, please visithttp://www.businessobjects.com/midmarket/.

About Business Objects

Business Objects is the world's leading business intelligence (BI)software company. With more than 35,000 customers worldwide, includingover 80 percent of the Fortune 500, Business Objects helpsorganizations gain better insight into their business, improvedecision making, and optimize enterprise performance. The company'sbusiness intelligence platform, BusinessObjects(TM) XI, offers the BIindustry's most complete and trusted platform for performancemanagement, planning, reporting, query and analysis, and enterpriseinformation management. BusinessObjects XI includes CrystalReports(R), the industry standard for enterprise reporting. BusinessObjects has also built the industry's strongest and most diversepartner community, and the company offers consulting and educationservices to help customers effectively deploy their businessintelligence projects.

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