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 
