Save time designing and distributing presentation-quality reports.  Crystal Decisions software allows you to instantly create presentation-quality reports that take advantage of Sage BusinessWorks Accounting data.  It's a powerful "what you see is what you get" report writer that generates meaningful reports and helps you make smart, informed business decisions that can lead your company to increased profitability.  You can use sample reports straight out of the box.  Or you can modify them to suit your needs, and then save and run them anytime.

Make quick, informed decisions with customized reports.  Your company is unique and therefore may desire reports that fit your specific needs.  Crystal Decisions gives you the power to take control over the look of your documents in a wide variety of ways.  Select your preferred font type, size and text color.  Enhance the layout by applying lines, borders and shading.  Further enrich your reports with embedded pictures, diagrams and logos.  Use tables, cross-tabulations or one of twelve graph styles to communicate your financial information.  You can even create reports with drill-down capabilities simply by selecting that option for the detail section of a report.  Simply put, the reporting flexibility you'll get with Crystal Decisions is unparalleled.

Step-by-step processes save you time.  Crystal's "Experts" are wizards that guide you through the report process from start to finish, and "Private Tutor" is a built-in training and online help system.  You can run your reports at pre-determined times, even unattended.

Easily access all your data,  The ODBC (open database connectivity) driver, included with the application, gives Crystal Decisions direct access to your Sage BusinessWorks data. The ODBC driver also provides read-only access to Sage BusinessWorks data for other applications, including Microsoft Word, Excel and Access software, for automatic transfer of your accounting information into other applications and report writers.

Features:

• Allows you to embed sub-par reports into a main report.  For example, you can embed your income statement into the balance sheet and pull the net income figure into the balance sheet.  This gives you greater flexibility and control over your financial information.

• Creates conditional and multiple section reports, so you can build special conditions into each individual section of a report and print with greater precision.  This also allows one report to produce several different outcomes.
• Allows you to present summary information in a single cell, replacing columnar report formats and making your information easier to read.
• Permits you to combine database information with letters or other text objects.  You can also specify selection criteria to target specific groups of customers.
• Gives you more control over report design with a powerful user interface that lets you perform customizations.  You can also use a drawing model instead of a pre-defined grid for more accurate placement of data fields.
• Displays data in different colors or underlines data to put emphasis on a particular cell and its value.
• Compiles graphs based on details, formulas and subtotals, and offers several graphical formats.
• Publishes reports to the Web with automatic HTML output, presenting embedded graphs and other features of the original report.  When exporting to Word and Excel, images, lines, boxes, and colors are included.  E-mail reports can be created in one of 15 file formats.
• Offers a 32-bit ODBC driver for Windows 98/2000, Windows ME, Windows NT 4.0, or Windows Workstation 4.0 users with Office 95/97/2000 versions of Excel, World, and all versions of Access.

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