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SAP Crystal ReportsWhats New in BI 4.0 and SAP Crystal Reports 2011
Coy W Yonce, IIISAP Crystal Reports Product ManagementJune 22, 2011
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Business Analytics Solutions from SAPMost complete offering
StrategyManagement
Planning,Budgeting, and
Forecasting
Profitability andCost Management
FinancialConsolidation
Enterprise PerformanceManagement
DisclosureManagement
Enterprise DataWarehousing
Data MartSolutions
High-performanceAnalytic Solutions
Data Warehousing
Reporting andAnalysis
Dashboards andVisualization
Data Exploration Mobile
BI Platform
Business Intelligence
Enterprise GRCAccess RiskManagement
Global TradeServices
ContinuousTransactionMonitoring
Governance, Risk,and Compliance
DataServices
Master DataManagement
EventProcessing
ContentManagement
Enterprise InformationManagement
InformationGovernance
Analytic ApplicationsBy LoB
Service, Sales, and Marketing
Procurement
Supply Chain
Finance
Sustainability
IT, HR, and more
By IndustryFinancial Services
Public Sector and Healthcare
Manufacturing
Consumer Products
Retail and Telco
Utilities and more.
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What is Crystal Reports?
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Business Challenges with External and Internal
Communications
Effective information presentation to external customers and internal end users
External facing documents demand professional look and feel
Deliver personalized documents securely and quickly to hundreds of thousands
Move to a paperless world to save costs and improve sustainability
Customer Facing Documents(External)
Operational Reports(Internal)
401 (k) Statements
Utility Bills
Purchase Orders
Financial Statements
Catalogs, Product Labels
Daily Order Fulfillment
Hourly Inventory
Claims Notification
Shipping Backlogs
Regulatory Reports
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Shape Your Decisions with High Quality DocumentsImmediate Value to Customers and End Users
Professional looking personalizeddocuments to meet your information
needs
Get reports on demand or delivered,
no matter where you are - Browser,
Email, Mobile, Paper
Best End user Experience
Easy to consume
See only what you need to know
Online reports with guided interactivity
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Powerful, superior design experience enable
compelling data presentation
Tap all your data in everyday business
context
Intuitive free-form layout with simple
workflows and drag-and droptechniques
Use sophisticated methods to present
data
Transform data using complex
business rules
Layout and Formatting based on
business logic and data values
Large scale, ubiquitous delivery options
Securely distribute relevant reports
globally to millions in batch or on
Transform Data to Stunning Pixel-Perfect DocumentsReport Authors build reports in minutes
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Whats New in BI 4.0 and
SAP Crystal Reports
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Side-by-Side Releases on the Same BI Platform
SAP Crystal Reports 2011
Same User Interface as Crystal Reports
2008 and only a few new features.
SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise
Major redesign focused on streamlining
report creation and modification. Makes it
easier to create reports on top of SAP BW
and the Common Semantic Layer.
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Whats New: SAP Crystal Reports 2011
Read-Only Report Format
Protect report design by saving in .RPTR format.
Only able to opened in the Designer.
Export to Office 2007 Excel Format
Export reports to XSLX format from Designer or
Viewers.
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Whats New: SAP Crystal Reports 2011
Crystal Reports for Visual
Studio 2010
New WPF Viewer offers full feature parity
with WebForm and WinForm viewers
Support for new features available in SAP
Crystal Reports 2011
APIs that enable movement away from
RDC applications
32-bit and 64-bit runtime
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Whats New: SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise
Designer
Major redesign focused on streamlining report
creation and modification
Native designer on top of Common Semantic Layer
(a.k.a., Universes)
BICS connectivity for data coming from SAP BW
and Bex Queries
Platform
Native 64-bit processing servers
Subscription service for report level alerts
Complete localization via Translation Manager
Side-by-Side processing with CR 2011 content
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Streamlined Report Creation and ModificationTabbed Navigation
Easier UI for existing and
new report designers
Align common UI elements
across the entire SAP BI
Suite
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Streamlined Report Creation and ModificationGroups, Totals, and Sorts
Common way to
insert Groups, Totals,
and Sorts
Single UI for managing existing
Groups and Sorts in a report
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Streamlined Report Creation and ModificationCharting UI
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Streamlined Report Creation and ModificationSmart Guidelines
Smart Guidelines
Easy column resizing, reordering,
and deletion
Automatic resizing and column
shifting for new field insertion
Smart Default Formatting
Automatic detection and applicationof formatting for similar fields in a
report
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Crystal Reports metadata
Text Objects
Prompts
Tooltips
Anything with text
SAP BusinessObjects Business
Intelligence platform
supported features
Translation Manager
Translate Locally or via Export/Import
using XLFF
Schedulable Translation
Create Once, schedule and publish
reports in multiple languages
French
German
English
Streamlined Report Creation and ModificationReduce effort and number of reports for global deployments
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Single trusted version of the truth
Exposes data in easy, every day
business context
Combine data from heterogeneous
sources within a report
Integrated query panel and shared
semantic layer
Hierarchical navigation
Multi-source support
Support for the Common Semantic Layer
Reduced learning curve and effort to build reports
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Support for the Common Semantic LayerQuery Panel
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Support for the Common Semantic LayerHierarchical Navigation
Hierarchy
in Crosstab
Hierarchy
in Chart
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Best in Class SAP BW AccessBased on Direct Native BICS Access to SAP BEx Queries
What is BI Consumer Services (BICS) BICS is the BW data access layer for BEx tools
BICS is built upon native SAP-only API calls
What is the value of direct native BICS access
Streamline data access architecture for TCO reduction
Perform optimally through native API
Expose all BW metadata: hierarchies, variables, structures,
Leverage investments in BEx query design
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Low TCO BW Access in BI 4.0
SAP NetWeaver BW
BEx Query
Crystal
Reports
Web
IntelligenceXcelsius
Universe
InfoProviders
BICSBAPI
MDX
SAP NetWeaver BW
BEx Query
Crystal Reports, Web Intelligence,
Dashboards, and Analysis
InfoProviders
Before: Siloed connectivitiesin SAP BusinessObjects XI 3.1
After: Unified direct BICS accessin SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0
BICS
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Which Designer Should YouUse?
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Planned Innovations Future DirectionTodayTODAY
SAP Product Road Map for SAP Crystal Reports for EnterpriseKey Themes, Capabilities, and Innovations
Streamlined Report Design
Tabbed UI Navigation, New UI forManaging Sorts and Groups
New Charting UI
Smart Guidelines
Smart Formatting
Data Sources Native Client on CommonSemantic Layer
Start from Analysis Views
BICS Driver for BW and BEx
New BI Platform Features
Localized Metadata
Platform Driven Alerting
Reporting Service API
RESTful Web Service, OData
Embeddable Web Viewer API
DHTML Viewer, JavaScriptEvents
New Visualizations
Tag Cloud, Treemap, Box Plot
Report Repository on the Web
Online Library of ReportTemplates
New Set Data Source UI
Performance
View Time Improvements
Data Sources
Limited Direct to Data
Essbase and SAP ERP via CSL
SAP BW via BICS Improvements
Delivery to OEM and Indirect
Branding Updates to CR 2012
Close Major Feature Gaps
Data Sources
Full Direct to Data with Net NewSources
Consumption of Odata and Data
from Cloud Platforms
New Runtime for Report andDashboard Content
Scalable and EmbeddableProcessing Server
Cloud Ready
Support REST and AJAX APIs
Report Look and Feel More Net New Visualizations
Report and Report Object Styling
Smart Defaults
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High Level Functionality Gaps(a.k.a., Whats missing in CR for enterprise?)
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SAP Crystal Reports
2011SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise (CRe)Foundation for all future releases of SAP
Crystal Reports
Risk free adoption of Innovation
Preserve existing investments - Run with
existing CR 2008 content
Adopt at your own pace - Run CR 2008, CR
2011 and CRe content from the same
common platform
CR 2011 (successor to SAP Crystal Reports 2008)
recommended for the following scenarios:
Direct data connectivity
Integration with custom applications
Adopt SAP Crystal Reports for EnterpriseRisk free adoption of Innovation
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Further Information
Social Media
Upcoming WebinarsBusiness Analytics Webinar Series
http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/businessobjects-webinars
SAP Community NetworkBusiness Analytics community
http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/boc
Business Intelligence page:
http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/boc/bi
Official BI 4.0 eLearning Tutorials:
http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/boc/bi-platform-elearning
Twitter
http://twitter.com/sapcommnet
http://twitter.com/businessobjects
Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/sapcommunitynetwork
https://www.facebook.com/sapanalytics
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Thank You!
Contact information:
Coy W Yonce, III
Senior Product Owner SAP Crystal Reports
http://www.twitter.com/coyyonce
1 (678) 575 8916
mailto:[email protected]://www.twitter.com/coyyoncehttp://www.twitter.com/coyyoncemailto:[email protected]