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. It was first released under the name ''Seagate Analysis'' as a free application written in

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released in 1999. After disappointing application performance, a decision was made to rewrite using

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. The initial rewrite only supported

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, but support for other vendors soon followed, with

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in version 8.5,

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and SAP BW following in later releases. The web client was rewritten using an

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abstraction layer for the version 9.0 release, with better standards compliance to support

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based browsers, this work also set the building blocks for support for

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. Crystal Analysis relies on Crystal Enterprise for distribution of analytical applications created with it.

Release timeline

*''Seagate Analysis'' 1999, by

*''Crystal Analysis Professional'' v8.0, 29 May 200

by

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*''Crystal Analysis Professional'' v8.1, Q4 2001 by Crystal Decisions *''Crystal Analysis Professional'' v8.5 9 July 200

by Crystal Decisions *''Crystal Analysis Professional'' v9.0 9 April 200

by Crystal Decisions *''Crystal Analysis Professional'' v10.0 8 January 200

by Business Objects (company), Business Objects *''Crystal Analysis Professional'' v11.0 31 January 2005, by Business Objects *''Crystal Analysis Professional'' v11.0 Release 2 30 November 200

{dead link, date=August 2017 , bot=InternetArchiveBot , fix-attempted=yes , by Business Objects Future versions will be released under the name, '' BusinessObjects OLAP Intelligence''.

External links

Product page at Business Objects
Business intelligence software Online analytical processing