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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.



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.



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



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



Streamlined Report Creation and ModificationTabbed Navigation

Easier UI for existing and

new report designers

Align common UI elements

across the entire SAP BI

Suite



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



Streamlined Report Creation and ModificationCharting UI



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



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



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

[email protected]

http://www.twitter.com/coyyonce

1 (678) 575 8916
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