Crystal Decisions (previously known as ''

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products. The company was formed when

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manufacturer Seagate Technology acquired Holistic Systems and

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with the intention of pursuing better profit margins in the

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market. Holistic Systems had a wide range of sales offices, infrastructure and the Holos

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product, whilst Crystal Services had good OEM deals for the Crystal Reports database reporting product that they had written. The first new product from the combined company was Seagate Info, which later evolved to become known as Crystal Enterprise. Crystal Analysis followed as an OLAP client. The company's structure reflected its heritage, with OLAP technologies being developed out of the former Holistic Systems R&D site in

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and Relational Database technologies being developed out of the former Crystal Services R&D centre in

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. Crystal Decisions was acquired by Business Objects in December 2003. As part of this acquisition, the former research and development site in

, was closed with a loss of about 80 jobs in order to centralize development in

and

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, with the support for the Holos product being outsourced to Raspberry Software based near Ipswich. The Holos product line has now ceased. Business Objects was purchased by

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in March 2008.

External links

Indicee WebsiteSys-Con Media Article, December 17th, 2009TechCrunch Article November 4th 2009Press Release July 2003 - Business Objects to Acquire Crystal Decisions

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