SAP Crystal Reports 2008 is a powerful, dynamic, actionable reporting solution that helps you design, explore, visualize, and deliver reports via the web or embedded in enterprise applications. End users can consume reports with stunning visualizations, conduct on-report business modeling, and execute decisions instantly from the report itself—reducing their dependency on IT and developers. Design, format and deliver reports that allow you to explore report data interactively. Present reports with compelling visualizations. Reduce report proliferation and dependency on IT and Developers. Recommended for: report designers, IT professionals, database administrators, power users, and application developers.

InfiniteSkills Crystal Reports 2008 Fundamentals will help you traverse through the report writing process and build your skills so that you too can create your very own custom reports that actually tell you what you need to know rather than relying on anything supplied by any database provider.  By the end of this Crystal Reports training video you will understand the concepts involved and feel fully able to connect to databases of all kinds, from text files such as Excel to server based databases such as Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle. You will be able to extract the requisite information from your databases by filtering and sorting the data as needed, and then present it in a meaningful and concise format, making full use of Crystal Reports formatting, drawing and graphics import tools. Guy helps to explain the processes involved in a very straightforward way without the use of IT jargon, which makes the learning process as painless and fruitful as possible.

By the conclusion of this Crystal Reports tutorial you will have gained the skills required to design and create reports that present information in a pleasing and informative manner, and be able to use Crystal Reports confidently in a commercial environment. Working files accompany the training, allowing you to follow along with the trainer at your own pace.