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Fast Reports is a European enterprise software company,which develops business intelligence and Reporting tools.It has been in existance since 1998.The company has developed tools which are used by many large and small business throughout the world. The flagship product is FastReport, which is used in the generation of reports for different purpose and with minimal effort.

History
Before 1998, Michael Philippenko and Alexander Tziganenko decided to create a reporting tool which can be used by them in their everyday work.Then they decided to send the tool to other business personel to try it.They liked it and later on decided that they can be producing a reporting tool for others to use in their work.That was the idea behind the creation of the company.And so in 1998, they founded FastReports as a company which developes reporting tools.They developed components for creating report generator in applications, written in the environments such as CodeGear Delphi, C++ Builder, and MS Visual Studio. It was at that time that the first version of the report generator FastReport was created.

In 1999 the company then upgraded the software they were developing and they released a second version of FastReport.In 2003 they released the version with many more updates.It was voted by the Delphi magazine as one of the best reporting tools.

FasReports has offices in Rostov on dony, Russia and in other parts of the world.

Registration
The company was registerd in 1998 as a company.An since then it grew in number and acquired more developers and software testers to work on other products which were being produced.It also included expertsn in marketting, customer supprort and general management. On

Product history

 * 1998: FastReport release.
 * 1999: FastReport 2.0 released
 * 2003: FastReport 2.5 released
 * 2003: FastScript 1.0 released
 * 2003: FastExperts 1.0 libraries were also released, considerably increasing  functions of the report generator  FastReport (FR).
 * 2004: FastReport 4.0 was released
 * 2004: Despite development of new versions of FR.The support for FastReport 2 continued till 2009 whereas its sales were stopped in 2006. As of now, any registered user of Fast report VCL can get by request the second version for free


 * 2004: Fast Report 3 reports generator became very popular among developers working in environments such as Delphi, C++ Builder
 * 2005:FastReport Studio 4 was released. visual reports designer which allows an ordinary database user to apply it for creating, editing and printing reports of any level of difficulty, and a developer an opportunity to integrate components of the FastReport3 report generator in their applications via COM interface.


 * 2006:FastReport server was released.was released for corporative reporting. An independent decision for organizing a vast database network at an enterprise
 * 2007: FastCube was released.In correspondence with the high demands of the users to Fast Reports products, the company released Delphi components for OLAP-analysis FastCube VCL.
 * 2008: FastReport.Net was released. A reporting tool which uses the .Net environment for reporting generation