Lilly Software Partners with Crystal Decisions to Offer Integrated Reporting Software in VISUAL Enterprise

Business Wire, April 16, 2002

Business/Technology Editors

HAMPTON, N.H.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 16, 2002

Lilly Software Associates announced that it has become a Crystal Decisions Authorized Application Provider. Lilly now offers its customers Crystal Reports(R), the most popular reporting software in the world with 10 million licenses shipped, as a reporting tool for the VISUAL Enterprise(TM) solution.

Crystal Decisions is an information management company and a market leader in reporting, analysis, and information delivery technologies and services. Crystal Decisions offers a complete range of integrated enterprise Web reporting solutions that extend the value of reporting with market-leading analytics and the underlying infrastructure for enterprise-wide applications. Millions of customers in thousands of companies worldwide use the company's products.

As an Authorized Application Provider of Crystal Decisions, Lilly Software will offer Crystal Reports for use with VISUAL Enterprise, enabling users to easily create, access, analyze, and deliver presentation-quality reports. Crystal Reports integrates with the VISUAL Enterprise solution and includes powerful wizards and tools that help users quickly develop interactive documents customized to their requirements. Users can add charts, drill-down capabilities, and alerts and apply formulas and features to address the most complex reporting needs. Crystal Reports also allows users to publish reports in a variety of formats, including XML, PRF, Word, Excel, and e-mail. It offers high performance processing that promotes efficiency and accuracy.

"We want our customers to access up-to-the-minute data and we want them to have the most effective tools to use that information for profitable decision making," explains Scott Rich, Vice President, Marketing, Lilly Software Associates. "As a provider of Crystal Decisions, we can offer our customers a superior reporting application."

Lilly Software's latest release of VISUAL Enterprise includes a new report writer interface. VISUAL now supports user-defined reports from many application windows, allowing managers to quickly and easily create documents that contain only the information they specify. Users can design and compile reports using Crystal Reports, which they can then run from the User Reports menu.

"This partnership allows us to enhance our solution, strengthen our reporting capabilities, and continue to increase the flexibility of the VISUAL Enterprise product line," says Rich.

About Lilly Software Associates

Lilly Software Associates, Inc. (LSA) provides a complete line of enterprise and supply chain management solutions for manufacturers and distributors. With its easy-to-use graphical nature, the VISUAL suite of products helps companies capture accurate, real-time data about their business processes using Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS), Manufacturing Execution System (MES), Quality Management, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), E-Business Relationship Management (ERM), and Warehouse Management System (WMS) capabilities.

Most VISUAL applications run on Windows NT(R), UNIX(R), LINUX, VMS, Novell(R) or OS400 using SQLBase(R), Microsoft SQLServer(TM), ORACLE(R) or DB2(R)/400 relational databases, and are certified for both iSeries and Netfinity servers.

In recent years, Lilly Software has been ranked in Inc. magazine as one of the 500 fastest-growing companies in the US, listed in Software Magazine's Software 500, and recognized by Start magazine as one of the Hottest Companies. In 2001, Lilly was included in MSI's Top 100 for its sixth year, ranked in Frontline Solutions' first annual Top 100, and listed in Managing Automation magazine as a Software Leader. Recently, Lilly Software has been voted one of the 2002 Top 10 Best of Breed solutions for manufacturing by readers of Consumer Goods Technology.