Title: Sams Teach Yourself Crystal Reports 9 in 24 Hours
Description: The first beginner-level introduction to the newest and most significantly revised release of Crystal Reports. 
This book is designed to introduce Crystal Reports X, the newest version of Crystal Reports, a leading software reporting program with over 7 million licenses shipped to date. 
The vast product enhancements contained in the newest release will drive upgrades from a large number of existing Crystal Reports licensees who will seek a tutorial to help them migrate to the new version. 
The authors are Crystal Decisions insiders and Crystal Decisions will provide marketing support for this book. 
Developed by Crystal Decisions, Crystal Reports can access data from most widely used databases and can integrate data from multiple databases within one report. Crystal Reports has been endorsed as the standard program for reporting with over 250 third party vendors. These vendors include Microsoft, SAP, PeopleSoft, Baan, IBM's Lotus, and many others. This book will guide the Crystal Reports users through conceptual topics, such as understanding data sources, to creating simple reports using the provided report wizards to custom reporting creation, modification and design techniques. The newest release includes unprecedented technological advances and user interface design improvements--making for the most significant release enhancement to date. 
Joe Estes is the manager of the Midwest Systems Engineer team at Crystal Decisions. 
Kathryn Hunt is a Program Manager at Crystal Decisions in the Product Management Team. 
Neil FitzGerald manages a team of technical consultants in the NY/New England region for Crystal Decisions. 
Ryan Marples is a Program Manager at Crystal Decisions.
Subjects: Computer Technology, Nonfiction, Technology