{"id":12,"date":"2006-08-21T08:49:49","date_gmt":"2006-08-21T12:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kenhamady.com\/cru\/archives\/12"},"modified":"2020-09-22T23:03:27","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T03:03:27","slug":"crystal-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenhamady.com\/cru\/archives\/12","title":{"rendered":"Crystal Vision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just got a promo in my mail from Business Objects for a new product suite called &#8220;Crystal Vision&#8221;. This is actually a combination of Crystal Reports XI, Crystal Xcelsius and a third feature called &#8220;Live Office&#8221;. I am sure you all know Crystal Reports. I recently wrote an <a title=\"Article on Crystal Xcelsius\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kenhamady.com\/news0601.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article<\/a> in my newsletter describing Xcelsius which allows you build and deploy interactive flash based dashboards that read Excel data.<\/p>\n<p>Live Office (which is part of BO Enterprise ) gives you <!--more-->the ability to embed a Crystal Report into an MS office document (spreadsheet, Power Point presentation, etc) and maintain the ability to refresh the data. The plan is for people to embed the report into a spreadsheet using live office and then deploy the spreadsheet data in an Xcelsius dashboard.<\/p>\n<p>Crystal Vision sells for $795 but if you already own a copy of Crystal Reports (v8.5 and above) you can upgrade to Vision for only $495. I found this interesting because Crystal Reports has never set a minimum version for upgrade eligibility. Granted this is not Crystal Reports, but we may find that the next release of Crystal sets a minimum version eligibility for upgrades.<\/p>\n<p>I also found a good review of the product with a pretty good description of how the three products work together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got a promo in my mail from Business Objects for a new product suite called &#8220;Crystal Vision&#8221;. This is actually a combination of Crystal Reports XI, Crystal Xcelsius and a third feature called &#8220;Live Office&#8221;. I am sure you all know Crystal Reports. I recently wrote an article in my newsletter describing Xcelsius [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenhamady.com\/cru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenhamady.com\/cru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenhamady.com\/cru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenhamady.com\/cru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenhamady.com\/cru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kenhamady.com\/cru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenhamady.com\/cru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenhamady.com\/cru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenhamady.com\/cru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}