| Features | Report Types:
Cross-tab, Form-style reports
Subreports, Conditional reports
Top/bottom N, Drill-Down/summary reports, OLAP reports
Chart Types:
Bar, Stacked Bar, Column, Stacked Column, Line, Area, Pie, Scatter, Bubble, Guage, Gantt, Funnel
Numeric or Date/time X-Axis
High Productivity Report Creation:
Report Design Wizard, Report Experts for automatic report creation
Data Explorer, Report Explorer, Repository Explorer2, Field Explorer
Microsoft Excel and Access Add-ins
Graphical table linking, Field mapping between databases
Template Window (Design), Repository for component reuse
Drill down in fully customizable runtime Preview Window
Comprehensive Formatting and Design Control:
Guidelines and vertical rulers, Automatic styles, auto-arrange fields, ruler
Drawing-style interface, Line drawing, box drawing, Circles, ovals and boxes with rounded corners
Conditional font formatting, Conditional formatting of text, by style and size, Vertical text rotation, Fractional font size
Format Editor & Painter
BLOB bitmap support, Custom and bound images, Support for vector-based images
Grid control options (on/off; visible/invisible, set line height)
Charting on subtotals, groups, details and formulas
Integrated geographic mapping, Integrated charting, Embed hyperlinks into reports
Copy entire report objects to Windows clipboard, Cross-tab objects, Subreport, Text objects
User-defined tool tips for tools and report objects
Top N, bottom N sorting, Sort and subtotal in one step
Custom (named) grouping, Hierarchical group summary
Parameter fields, Report and page footers
Formula Workshop, Use Basic-like syntax in formula language
Formula control of formatting, Display string formatting
User Function Libraries (supports COM Object), Custom Functions
Interactive Analysis Tools:
Report Alerts, Map lens, Include maps in reports
Analyzer view for charts, Integrated Analyzer for charts, Conditional formatting on charts, Field highlighting
Customizable cross-tabs, Formula Editor, Expert
Report Viewing and Interaction:
Parameter prompts via the Web
Netscape Viewer plug in
Local printing and export from viewer, Page-on-demand
search results to various formats
Export to Excel, character-separated values, paginated text, record style (columns of values), report definition,tab-separated text and values, RTF, disk, application, ODBC databases, Mail, Microsoft Exchange
Export, e-mail reports with saved data, Report options saved with report
Support for Microsoft Smart Tags in Office XP
Report distribution and deployment:
Out-of-the-box web report delivery4
Rapid Application Development:
Multi-pass reporting with powerful grouping and sorting
Heterogeneous data sources
Other SQL Features and Tools:
Support for SelectDistinct, TopN for selecting records
SQL database access, SQL pass-through, Unlimited SQL Commands, Sort data on SQL database servers
Security pass-through, Database driver conversion
Group-by, aggregation and SQL expressions on SQL database servers
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