Charting Technology

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About Three D Graphics

• Founded in 1986 in Los Angeles by Elmer Easton
  (Compucorp) and Kai Krause (Kais Powertools)
• Boutique developer of OEM charting libraries
  and retail charting products. 5 employees,
  privately owned.
• Late 80s Perspective, Perspective Jr.,
• Early 90s OEM charting for Fox Software,
  Borland, Aldus
• Main OEM products
• The Presentation Graphics SDK. A powerful C
  cross-platform charting library
• Perspective for Java. Charting library for Java

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Some of Our Customers

• Oracle
• Cognos
• Crystal Decisions
• MicroStrategy
• Business Objects

• Macromedia
• Intuit
• Symantec
• Hummingbird

• Information Builders
• Computer Associates
• JD Edwards
• Informatica
• Corel

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Crystal Reports Charting History

• In 1994, we approached Seagate Software with an
  early version of the Presentation Graphics SDK
  v1.0. This was subsequently licensed and became
  part of Crystal Reports 6 and 7.
• In 1999, Crystal Decisionsupgraded to the
  Presentation Graphics v1.5. for use in CR 8.5.
  This is still the version they more-or-less use
  today.
• In 2002, Crystal almost bought Three D
  Graphics.
• As of December 31, 2002, the long standing
  charting partnership between Crystal Decisions
  and Three D Graphics was completed. Certain
  additional support tasks were provided in 2003,
  but were limited in scope and intent.
• Early in 2003, Three D Graphics started to
  receive Crystal Chart enhancement requests
  directly from Crystal Reports users. In response,
  the Company (on its own) initiated the
  development of a significant Crystal Chart
  enhancement library, dubbed CRChart, which
  launched in late 03.

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What is CRChart

• CRChart is an enhanced version of the OEM
  charting module originally provided to CR. This
  is runtime file SSCSDK80.DLL
• Since we have the source, we can extend
  functionality and add features, even though CR is
  a closed system.
• CRChart has the support of CR development staff
  in Vancouver. We have an agreement by which they
  send us all updates they make guaranteeing that
  CRChart is always 100 compatible with the latest
  revs of Crystal Reports.
• CRChart is engineered so that all rendered charts
  look identical to CR if none of the CRChart
  macros are enabled.

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CRChart is constituted as follows

• 20 Those new chart types and features that
  other Business Intelligence/Reporting customers
  were emphasizing (PG SDK 2.5).
• 30 Those most important customizations
  requested from various Crystal Report customers.
• 50 Those solutions to the most frequently
  expressed real-world charting problems and
  complaints determined from monitoring Crystal
  Reports developer forums.

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What CRChart offers developers

• Ability to set chart properties at Runtime
• User programmable lines, markers and labels on
  any axis (or free floating)
• Pivot functions (Swap series/group, data
  reversal, etc...) and data-suppression functions
• User-defined datasets and label names
• Conditional Logic for marker type, chart style
  and many other attributes.
• Improved control over axis labels skipping,
  decimal precision, scale range, etc...
• Statistical Process Control charting Step Lines,
  Paretos, etc.
• Superior control over the color of markers and
  risers
• Flexible macro language for applying all new
  features/functionality

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Additional CRChart graph types

• Pareto Charts
• BoxPlots ("box and whiskers")
• Error-bars
• Bell-Curve / Histograms
• 3D Scatter charts
• Radar/Polar charts
• Vastly superior Gantt charts
• Superior Scatter charts
• Improved Waterfall charts
• Step-Line

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Pareto Charts
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BoxPlots ("box and whiskers")
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Bell-Curve/Histograms
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Step-Line
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Gantt Charts
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Conditional Formatting
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User programmable lines
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Typical Uses of the CRChart Enhancements

• Performance Measurement / Benchmarking
• Statistical Analysis, Statistical Process Control
• Financial Analysis

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Typical Customers

• ABN AMRO (NYSE ABN)
• Accenture (NYSE ACN)
• Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE ALU)
• Alliance Bernstein (NYSE AB)
• Aramco (NYSE ASC)
• Duke University
• Genentech (NYSE DNA)
• GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE GSK)
• Haliburton (NYSE HAL)
• Konica Minolta
• Kodak (NYSE EK)
• KPMG
• Munich Airport
• Royal Bank of Canada (NYSE RY)
• SAP (NYSE SAP)
• Siemens AG (NYSE SI)
• SBB (Swiss Federal Railway)
• Verint (NASDAQ VRNT)
• Volvo (NASDAQ VOLV)

Banking/Finance, Oil, Manufacturing, Pharma,
Germans
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CRChart versions and platforms

• Current version is 3.52
• Version 3.6 should be out in August.
• Works with any version of Crystal Reports 8.x or
  higher
• Works with Crystal Viewer, InfoView, Crystal
  Enterprise, BO Enterprise
• Windows only (32 or 64 bit). Not available for
  CR/Eclipse or CR/Unix.
• Retail version does NOT work well with the free,
  stripped-down, CR control built into VisualStudio
• Comes in 2 flavors CRChart (499) and CRChart
  Plus (799).
• CRChart has 100 macros for solving charting
  problems, adding chart types, automating charts,
  etc.
• CRChart PLUS has 12 additional macros for
  aesthetic improvements (better pies, better
  gauges, better snazzy gradients and edge effects)
• WebI support for Windows/Unix is available on a
  custom basis.

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Nested Labels If only
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CRChart Plus
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