Crystal Decisions Delivers First-Class Enterprise Reporting Solutions to Microsoft Sharepoint Portal Server Customers

Business Wire, May 17, 2001

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PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 17, 2001

Crystal Decisions Builds Unique XML Components for the Microsoft

Sharepoint Portal Server Platform, Giving Users Quick Access to

Crystal Decisions World-Class Technologies

Crystal Decisions, an information infrastructure company that is a market leader in reporting, analysis and information delivery, today announced the availability of unique XML components called Web Parts, for integration into Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server and the recently released Digital Dashboard Resource Kit 3.0.

The Web Parts components standardize how content, such as the company's award-winning reporting and analysis technologies, is delivered to Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server users-allowing them to quickly access, analyze, report and share valuable business information for increased efficiency.

SharePoint Portal Server is a flexible portal solution that lets customers find, share, and publish information easily. The portal is based on the digital dashboard framework, which enables knowledge workers to view and collaborate on personal, team, corporate, and external information. Web-based content can be integrated into the portal via Web Parts. The Crystal Decisions Web Parts components allow users to integrate Crystal Decisions' technologies-Crystal Reports, Crystal Enterprise and Crystal Analysis Professional-into the view of a company's diverse sources of knowledge through SharePoint Portal Server. The components are available as downloads from the Crystal Decisions web site, and will be available on the Microsoft Web Part Gallery.

"Customers will be turning to Crystal Decisions' Web Parts to extend their SharePoint Portal Server and digital dashboard solutions," said Jeff Teper, general manager of the SharePoint Portal Server Business Unit at Microsoft. "Crystal Decisions' Web Parts allow users to integrate valuable analysis tools into their SharePoint Portal Server environment, thus improving business agility."

Crystal Decisions' unique Web Parts provide Microsoft digital dashboard customers with access to exceptional centralized reporting and analytical capabilities:

-- Alerting: Crystal Enterprise includes powerful alerting technology that
provides intelligent notification to users based on data triggers set in a
report.

-- Report Listing: The Report Listing Web Part requests all the reports and
displays them in a folder-tree structure within SharePoint Portal Server.

-- Report Viewer: Crystal Enterprise is designed to deliver highly interactive
reports in pure DHTML. The Report Viewer Web Part takes advantage of this
functionality to provide a full range of report navigation and interaction
features to the SharePoint Portal Server user.

-- Report Thumbnail: Crystal Enterprise creates thumbnail "snapshots"
of the first page of a report to help users quickly navigate to the right
report. The Report Thumbnail Web Part uses this feature to display a scrollable
set of thumbnail images within the SharePoint Portal Server.

For More Information

To download Crystal Decisions Web Parts, or for more information, visit the web site at www.crystaldecisions.com/digitaldashboard. Crystal Decisions Web Parts will also be available on the Microsoft Web Part Gallery, located at www.microsoft.com/digitaldashboard. For additional information phone 1-800-877-2340 (North America) or 1-604-681-3435 (International), or visit the Crystal Decisions web site at www.crystaldecisions.com.

About Crystal Decisions

Crystal Decisions, formerly Seagate Software, is a privately held Seagate company owned by a group of investors that include Silver Lake Partners and Texas Pacific Group. Crystal Decisions is an information infrastructure company, which provides award-winning reporting, analysis, and information delivery solutions. The company's world-class products are used by millions of customers in thousands of companies worldwide and include, Crystal Analysis, Crystal Enterprise, Crystal Reports and Holos. Crystal Decisions can be found on the Web at www.crystaldecisions.com.

Crystal Decisions, Crystal Reports, Crystal Enterprise, Holos and Seagate Info are either a registered trademark or trademark of Crystal Decisions Inc. Seagate is a registered trademark of Seagate Technology, LLC. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.