## Welcome

Seagate Crystal Reports is designed to work with your database to help you analyze and interpret important information. Seagate Crystal Reports makes it easy to create simple reports, and, it also has the comprehensive tools you need to produce complex or specialized reports.

##### Create any report you can imagine

Seagate Crystal Reports is designed to produce the report you want from virtually any data source. Built-in report experts guide you step by step through building reports and completing common reporting tasks. Formulas, cross-tabs, subreports, and conditional formatting help make sense of data and uncover important relationships that might otherwise be hidden. Geographic maps and graphs communicate information visually when words and numbers are simply not enough.

##### Extend reporting to the Web

The flexibility of Seagate Crystal Reports doesn't end with creating reports — your reports can be published in a variety of formats including Microsoft® Word and Excel, email and even over the Web. Advanced Web reporting lets other members of your workgroup view and update shared reports inside their web browser.

##### Incorporate reports into applications

Application and web developers can save time and meet their users needs by integrating the report processing power of Seagate Crystal Reports into their database applications. Support for most popular development languages makes it easy to add reporting to any application.

Whether it's the web master in IT, the promotion manager in marketing, the database administrator in finance or the CEO, Seagate Crystal Reports is a powerful tool designed to help everyone analyze and interpret the information that's important to them.

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