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Crystal Reports within SAP BI 4.0

Crystal Reports 2011 and Crystal Reports for Enterprise

Crystal Reports within SAP BI 4.0

Crystal Reports 2011 and Crystal Reports for Enterprise

Adam Getz

Practice Manager, Business IntelligenceDCS Consulting, Inc.


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Perfect solution for canned or published reports

Create high-fidelity, pixel-perfect reports

Access almost any data source

Build professional quality documents

Format and layout data with precision

Embed reports within business applications

Crystal Reports: Operational Reporting Tool

Crystal Reports: Operational Reporting Tool

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SAP BI 4.0 Includes CR 2011 and CR for EnterpriseSAP BI 4.0 Includes CR 2011 and CR for Enterprise

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Read-Only FormatRead-Only Format

Designer Export Crystal Reports Read OnlyCrystal Reports Designer Cannot Open

Must use CR Viewer or SAP BusinessObjects XI 4 to view

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Export to XSLS Format MS Excel WorkbookExport to XSLS Format MS Excel Workbook

Export to MS Excel 2007 / 2010 XSLX Workbook Format

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New FeaturesNew Features

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WYSIWYG Interface

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New Screen LayoutNew Screen Layout

Menus and Buttons are Now Similar in Layout to Microsoft Applications

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Design and Preview Pages are Now Called Structure and Page (Same Functionality)

Structure Tab displays the Report

Design with Field Codes

Page Tab displays a Report Preview

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Context Menus are Now Similar in Layout to Microsoft Applications

Context Menus (Right Click) have a

new layout and some new options

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New Common Semantic LayerNew Common Semantic Layer

Using the new query panel, which is common to multiple SAP

BusinessObjects client tools, you can drag and drop objects to create a

query which can be used to build your reports.

New Query Panel

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Grouping & SortingGrouping & Sorting

Single tool to manage all report groups and sorts

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HierarchiesHierarchies

Hierarchy-aware semantic layer allows hierarchies to be easily included within reports

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New Universe (Semantic Layer)New Universe (Semantic Layer)

Within SAP BI 4.0, a new Universe (Semantic Layer) has been developed. The existing Universe (.unv) and Designer

tool still exists in 4.0, but an additional tool named Information Design Tool (IDT) has been developed.

Universes created with the IDT are published to the BOE repository with a (.UNX) extension.

Web Intelligence 4.0 can work with both (.UNV) and (.UNX) universes.

The following new products or product features only work with the new (.UNX) IDT Universes.

SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise SAP BusinessObjects Explorer

SAP BusinessObjects Dashboard Design (Direct Binding)

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Which Crystal Reports version to Choose?Which Crystal Reports version to Choose?

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What to RememberWhat to Remember

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Crystal Reports for Enterprise is the Future of Crystal ReportsCrystal Reports for Enterprise is the Future of Crystal Reports

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