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'''Crystal Decisions''' (previously known as ''[[Seagate Software]] Information Management Group'') was a company that was known for its [[business intelligence]] products.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Crystal Decisions / Business Objects |url=https://www.silverlake.com/portfolio/crystal-decisions-business-objects/ |access-date=2024-12-05 |website=Silver Lake |language=en-US}}</ref>

The company was formed when [[hard disk drive]] manufacturer [[Seagate Technology]] acquired [[Holos (software)|Holistic Systems]] and [[Crystal Services]] with the intention of pursuing better profit margins in the [[software]] market. Holistic Systems had a wide range of sales offices, infrastructure and the [[Holos (software)|Holos]] [[OLAP]] 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 [[Ipswich]], [[Suffolk]], [[England]] and Relational Database technologies being developed out of the former Crystal Services R&D centre in [[Vancouver]], [[British Columbia]], [[Canada]].

Crystal Decisions was acquired by [[Business Objects (company)|Business Objects]] in December 2003.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Culture Makes the Difference in the Business Objects and Crystal Decisions Merger |url=https://www.humansynergistics.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/business-objects-crystal-decisions-merger-v-4.pdf}}</ref> As part of this acquisition, the former research and development site in [[Ipswich]], [[Suffolk]], [[England]], was closed with a loss of about 80 jobs in order to centralize development in [[Vancouver]] and [[Paris]], with the support for the [[Holos (software)|Holos]] product being outsourced to Raspberry Software based near Ipswich.

The Holos product line has now{{When|date=October 2016}} ceased.

Business Objects was purchased by [[SAP AG|SAP]] in March 2008.