Seagate Software Unveils Crystal Analysis Pro

Seagate Software, a leader in enterprise reporting and analysis, unveiled Crystal Analysis Professional -- a new analytic reporting tool. Currently in beta, Crystal Analysis Professional provides an organization's diverse users with a Web-based, interactive environment to exploit the functionality of multidimensional data sources such as Hyperion Essbase, IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server 2000, SAP BW and analytical application servers such as Seagate Holos.

As the newest addition to Seagate Software's expanding enterprise reporting and analysis suite, Crystal Analysis Professional is set to advance Seagate Software's leadership in today's enterprise information analysis and delivery market. The product enables flexible reporting against OLAP data sources, including the easy creation of analytic reporting applications. Next-generation zero-client technology based on XML and DHTML ensures fast, cost-effective, and manageable deployment of highly interactive and easily navigable information to end-users.

"In our evaluation of Crystal Analysis Pro, we discovered a feature-rich tool that gives our users easy-to-use analytic reporting and intuitive data visualization capabilities for critical decision support, all in a timely and accurate manner," said Stephen B. Kern, director of data warehouse and business analysis at Sun Chemical. "Crystal Analysis Pro will help Sun Chemical to quickly realize competitive advantage with better, faster decision-making."

Designed as a seamless content creation add-on to the Crystal Enterprise suite (refer to Seagate Software release dated 11/08/00), Crystal Analysis Professional allows organizations to manage analytic reporting as part of a mission-critical infrastructure for enterprise reporting and information delivery. Kern continues: "Crystal Analysis Pro by itself is impressive, and combined with Crystal Enterprise, it becomes a powerful, cost effective reporting and analysis infrastructure for any organization."

"The response we've had from our beta customers is overwhelming -- Crystal Analysis Pro is poised to set the standard for analytic reporting," said Tony Wind, vice president of product development at Seagate Software. "Crystal Analysis Pro accomplishes for OLAP data what Crystal Reports has accomplished for relational data-making it more accessible, easier to distribute, and exponentially increasing its value."

"I am impressed by Crystal Analysis Professional, which is the first Seagate Software OLAP client to provide deep support for Microsoft's OLAP server," commented Nigel Pendse, lead author of the OLAP Report, www.olapreport.com. "This server is probably the fastest growing corporate data store of all, and businesses need to provide flexible access to it for large numbers of users, both inside and outside their organizations. The native zero-footprint Web client architecture in Crystal Analysis Pro is ideal for this."

As the makers of Crystal Reports, the defacto world standard for high-performance reporting, and Seagate Info, a market share leader in enterprise reporting, Seagate Software has a long and proven history of delivering scalable Web-based reporting solutions for mission-critical applications. With millions of users in thousands of companies worldwide, Seagate Software continues to develop innovative technology to meet the ever-changing information delivery and consumption needs of its customer base.

For More Information

For more information on Crystal Analysis Pro-and to obtain a beta copy of the product-and for information on additional Seagate Software enterprise reporting technologies, 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 develops integrated enterprise reporting tools and infrastructure, which include Crystal Enterprise, Crystal Reports, Seagate Holos, and Seagate Info.

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