1. Rajesh Ponnurangam Infosol
Lets get Crystal Clear with Crystal Reports
Rajesh Ponnurangam
Infosol
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2. Let's get Crystal Clear with Crystal Reports
AGENDA
BI 4.1 & Crystal
An Introduction to BI Portfolio
Roadmap for Crystal
Data sources
Crystal Data sources in your organization
Crystal 2013/2016
What’s new Crystal 2016?
How’s it different from Crystal 2011/2008?
Crystal for Enterprise
What’s Crystal for Enterprise?
Data Connectivity Overview
Best Practices
Obstacles & Lessons Learnt
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[ SAP BI Suite
Enterprise Foundation
Agile Visualization
Dashboarding & Apps
Reporting
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4. [ Reporting High Productivity for Report Designers
Quickly build formatted reports on any data source
Securely distribute reports both internally and externally
Minimize IT support costs by empowering end users to easily create and modify their own reports
Enhance custom applications with embedded reports
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[ Reporting
Share Information
Web Intelligence
Crystal Reports
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6. [ SAP Run Simple Campaign
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7. SAP Crystal Report Proven world standard for Pixel Perfect Reporting
Easy to consume, highly formatted documents with guided interactivity
Personalized, information rich documents communicate value quickly
For Internal Operational Reports and Customer Facing
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8. Transform Data to Stunning Pixel-Perfect Documents
Connect to data directly or via semantic layer
Intuitive free-form reporting with simple workflows
Transform, format and layout data with precision and powerful methods
Securely distribute relevant reports globally to millions in batch or on-demand
Embed reports within business applications
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9. SAP Crystal Reports in BI 4.X
SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise
SAP Crystal Reports 2013/2016
Major update & re-design of the Crystal Reports Designer and associated processing servers
Provides the foundation for all future releases of Crystal Reports
Incremental update to CR 2008/2011 with a few new features
Focused on serving the needs of standalone, CR for Visual Studio, and CR for Eclipse users
Continue to deliver existing functionality with no regressions
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10. SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise
Highly formatted, professional looking reports with interactivity
New report designer user experience for improve report creation productivity
UI Harmonization across SAP BusinessObjects clients reduces user learning curve and accelerates adoption
New Charts to visualize insights
Greatest breadth and depth of data connectivity
Support for new Semantic Layer to guarantee a trusted, single version of the truth
Interoperability between SAP Crystal Reports and SAP BusinessObjects Analysis provides insightful information to be delivered as formatted reports
New SAP connectivity to SAP BW and SAP ERP provides a consistent data access across the BI suite
New Direct to Data connectivity with shared data connections
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11. SAP Crystal Report for Enterprise
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Smart Formatting
Smart Guidelines
Guidelines for easy column resizing
Drag and drop to reorder column
Automatic resizing and column shifting for object and column insertion
Smart Default Formatting
Designer detects patterns in formatting and adjusts automatically
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13. Consistent across BI Suite
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Common Semantic Layer Crystal reports for Enterprise with Universes (.UNX)
Connectivity to .UNX universes
Exposes data in easy, every day business context via integrated query panel and shared semantic layer
Break data silos, combine data from heterogeneous sources within a report with multi-source universes
Hierarchical navigation
SAP ERP data access: model ABAP Functions, Info Sets and InfoSet queries in .UNX universe
Other BI Clients can consume the same universes
Leverage the strengths of each tool against
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15. Direct to Data – Changes from Crystal 2008/11/13/16
Two methods of direct connectivity
Relational Connection Objects
Data connection is stored on the BI Platform
Designed for integration with the platform
Desktop Connections
Data connection is stored in the Report
Similar to traditional direct to data from CR 2011
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16. How it works Reports Managed by the BI Platform
SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise
SAP Crystal Reports 2013/2016
CR for Enterprise reports saved to BI Platform MUST use Relational Connection objects to hold connection info. CR 2013 reports continue to store connection info in each report.
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17. Managed Reports - Advantages
Good citizen of SAP BusinessObjects suite
Life Cycle Management
Connection dependencies are detected
CMS Clustering
Multi-tenancy
Scalable and Reliable
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18. How it works Desktop (unmanaged) reports
SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise
SAP Crystal Reports 2013/2016
Reports outside of the BI Platform repository contain connection info, as they always have
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19. Best in Class SAP BW Access
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
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Crystal for
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FAQ
Can both CR 2013/2016 reports and CR for Enterprise reports reside or run on the same BI 4.x system at the same time?
Yes
Can both the desktop CR 2013/2016 designer and the CR for Enterprise designer be installed on the same workstation?
If I have many CR 2008/XI 3.1 reports, how should I upgrade to 4.x and what version of CR should I use?
Upgrade to 4.x and utilize CR 2013/2016. Consider using CR for Enterprise of new projects. Migrate CR 2013/2016 reports to CR for Enterprise when time permits.
How long will CR 2013/2016 versions be around and supported for?
No End of Life support
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FAQ
How do I migrate a report from CR 2008/2011 to CR for Enterprise?
Open the CR 2008/2011 report with CR for Enterprise, change the data source and save to the new format.
I am a new customer with not current CR content, what version of CR should I use with the BI 4.x Platform?
If you are a new CR customer, evaluate CR for Enterprise first. The feature set may suit your needs, and the there is no need to consider migration if you start with the newest designer.
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Partial Migration
What is a partial migration?
Moving repository objects from BusinessObjects 3.X to BI 4.X and leaving the original data connections
Can I still use my existing data sources?
Yes. The Upgrade management tool will place your reports as Crystal reports 2013/2016
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Full Migration
What is a full migration?
Moving all repository objects from BusinessObjects 3.X to BI 4.X and completing the migration by converting to Crystal for enterprise
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Crystal for Enterprise
Only UNV Support
No UNX Support
Only UNX Support
No UNV Support
BW Access
No Support for Direct access
Native Support for Bex Queries
HANA
Direct access to SAP HANA analytic views & Calculation view
No Support for Direct access - Connection only via JDBC/ODBC
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28. Adopt SAP Crystal Reports for enterprise (only if needed)
SAP 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 2011, CR 2013/2016 and CRe content from the same common platform
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Key Learnings
Crystal Reports 2013/16 and Crystal Reports for Enterprise will co-exist in BI 4.x
Crystal Reports 2013/16 is fully supported for the life of BI4.x
SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise is the platform for future innovation
Report migration will require manual steps today (set data source location workflow)
Universes(.UNX) offer a powerful way to share the semantic layer across multiple tools in the BI Suite
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