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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (45)	3/27/2001 5:28:41 AM
From: Carl R.	Respond to of 144

Crystal Reports used to be owned by Seagate. Note that Seagate used to be number 6, and have a 5% market share but they are quickly sliding off the charts: olapreport.com The made a decision a couple years ago to give away free 50 seat licenses. They apparently still do that but it doesn't seem to have helped them. Message 10056099 Carl

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (45)	3/27/2001 2:25:20 PM
From: Thomas DeGagne	Respond to of 144

Crystal Decisions is a subsidiary of Seagate Technologies the hard drive manufacturer. Seagate was taken private last year. Over the last 5 or so years Seagate bought a number of software companies and merged them to form Crystal Decisions. Their products are for reporting and querying. Much like COGN, BOBJ and BRIO. They are not considered quite as powerful as the market leaders but are mature products at a lower price point. I am not aware of Ballistic Systems. If they do have an OLAP database that would make sense. I believe most people refer to an OLAP 'tool' as a BI tool. OLAP generally refers to the type of database used. Perhaps you could provide some links on Ballistic Systems? Thanks your response. I was getting lonely here. Please bookmark this thread as well; it covers many BI tools companies: Enterprise Information Portals (EIP) Subject 50557

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (45)	3/30/2001 1:37:00 PM
From: Thomas DeGagne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 144

Crystal Decisions Provides Key Business Intelligence Components for iBaan Portal biz.yahoo.com BARNEVELD, Netherlands and PALO ALTO, Calif., March 28 /CNW/ -- Baan, the global provider of enterprise business solutions, today announced a strategic alliance with Crystal Decisions, an information infrastructure company that is a market leader in reporting, analysis and information delivery. This strategic relationship was recently showcased at the iBaan launch, where Crystal Decisions' Crystal Enterprise technology was presented as part of the business intelligence solution for the iBaan Portal. Crystal Enterprise will continue to play an important role in delivering comprehensive business intelligence components for the iBaan Portal. The iBaan Portal is a personalized enterprise information portal that provides end-users access to relevant company information sources. Crystal Enterprise is a powerful and fully customizable web-based infrastructure that helps companies improve decision-making by organizing, categorizing and delivering reports, analytics and strategic business information into any web or enterprise application. The combined solution delivers access to vital company information, as well as best of breed reporting and analysis capabilities and the ability to deliver this information across the enterprise. "The iBaan Portal and Crystal Decisions technologies work in synergy to unlock the power of information across the enterprise," said Henk de Ruiter, senior vice president of marketing and alliances for Baan. "We wanted to deliver a best-of-breed solution to meet the enterprise reporting needs of our customers, and we're pleased to have the Crystal Decisions reporting and analysis technologies to complement our iBaan solutions portfolio." With multidimensional and relational reporting capabilities and the ability to access disparate data sources including both iBaan and non-Baan data sources, Crystal Decisions is solidly positioned to meet the needs of iBaan customers. "We are excited to extend our strategic relationship with Baan through the iBaan initiative," said Tony Wind, vice president of product development at Crystal Decisions. Wind continues: "Baan's choice of superior enterprise reporting capabilities with Crystal Enterprise, together with the iBaan solutions, create a powerful combined business offering and provides customers with intuitive decision-making capabilities that can not only help increase end-user productivity, but can also help companies maximize the ROI on their strategic information assets." The Baan / Crystal Decisions Alliance Baan resells Crystal Decisions solutions through its enterprise sales force. Crystal Enterprise Solutions for Baan provides access to iBaan data and gives business users the ability to easily extract decision-making information and extend the value of their iBaan ERP systems. As the makers of Crystal Reports, the de facto world standard for high-performance reporting, Crystal Decisions 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, Crystal Decisions continues to develop innovative technology to meet the ever-changing information delivery and consumption needs of its customer base. For further information on the Crystal decisions and the Baan reseller relationship, please visit www.crystaldecisions.net/baan