Seagate Software Offers New Versions of Crystal Apps

Seagate Software, a leader in business intelligence with more than seven million licenses shipped, announced new versions of its Crystal analytic applications that focus on Customer Profiling, Budgeting and Balanced Scorecard. Crystal analytic applications are powerful, OLAP-driven models created for use in specific functional areas of an organization that allow users to analyze business data and transform it into valuable information to support better strategic planning and management.

"We solicited feedback from our top customers and presented them with many ideas for enhancing our analytic applications. We wanted to identify what information would keep our customers on the leading edge of the business world and what would give them the power to make the best decisions," explains Tony Wind, vice president of product management at Seagate Software. "With the popularity of pre-built or part-built applications still growing, our new and proven Crystal analytic applications provide cutting-edge business planning and decision making."

Balanced Scorecard

The Balanced Scorecard analytic application focuses on an organization's strategy: how to envision what is needed and how to achieve it. Instead of traditional financially based measurement systems that only provide a historical perspective, this tool looks at the company's future goals and measures the success of achievement from four perspectives (financial, customer, internal, and learning and growth). Qualitative and quantitative sources are integrated for a successful, balanced picture.

Customer Profiling

To remain leading-edge in a highly competitive world market, the key factor for success lies in developing and maintaining customer relationships. The Customer Profiling analytic application can help companies maximize their ebusiness investments by generating intelligence from customer data to identify new customer opportunities and improve existing relationships. Included in the many benefits that this application lends to businesses is the ability to target the right products to the right audience.

Budgeting

The fundamental key to any business strategic plan is budget. Seagate Software's Budgeting analytic application streamlines the budget making process so that more time can be spent on analysis and decision making. The Budgeting analytic application integrates with other financial information such as SAP, Oracle Financials and relational databases. It also offers advanced data visualization ensuring that the right information can be delivered to the right audience.

About Crystal Analytic Applications

Wind continues: "Seagate Software understands business and business competition. We deliver the means for companies to have the power of knowledge, and the ability to seize opportunities and keep ahead of the race. Our analytic applications harness crucial decision-making information and places it at the users' fingertips."

Crystal analytic applications are developed using technology from the Seagate Software family of products, including the award-winning Crystal Reports, Seagate Info and Seagate Holos. Crystal analytic applications are created for use with Seagate Holos and Seagate Info.

Seagate Holos provides a highly flexible and scalable development environment for delivering custom applications that harness the everincreasing volumes of enterprise data and provide users with guided analysis of meaningful information. Seagate Info is a complete ebusiness intelligence enterprise reporting solution that offers a complete suite of analytical, reporting and distribution technologies across the enterprise to a broad range of users with diverse needs and skills.

For More Information

For information on Crystal analytic applications, phone 800-877-2340 (North America) or 604-681-3435 (International) or visit the Seagate Software Website at www.seagatesoftware.com.

About Seagate Software

Seagate Software, a subsidiary of Seagate Technology Inc, develops integrated business intelligence applications, which include Crystal Analysis, Crystal Reports, Seagate Holos, and Seagate Info. Seagate Software can be found on the Web at www.seagatesoftware.com. Seagate Technology Inc is a leading provider of technology and products enabling people to store, access, and manage information. The Company is committed to providing best-inclass products to help people get information when, where and how they want it. Seagate is the world's largest manufacturer of disc drives, magnetic discs and read-write heads, and an innovator in tape drives and software. Seagate can be found around the globe and at www.seagate.com.

Contact Alison MacDonald, Public Relations of Seagate Software Inc, 604-602-5260 alison.macdonald@seagatesoftware.com.