Yes, Business Objects is the company, Crystal Reports is the product.
Crystal Reports is kind of a subset of Business Objects — it didn't help that one kind of absorbed the other.
Crystal Reports is purely the reporting engine, while Business Objects is much more, and provides data warehousing and data transformation capabilities from multiple data sources.
Hope that helps.
Business Objects (the company) owns and distributes Crystal Reports.
Business Objects Enterprise tools is a whole suite of products that includes Crystal Reports…
