0308 crystal reports in the business objects intelligence 41 ecosystem

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Henry Kam, Senior Solution Manager, Crystal Reports and BI Platform
SAP
Crystal Reports in the BusinessObjects
Intelligence 4.1 Ecosystem
Session Code: 8881
Template Revision 20110725 v2.2

Agenda
 SAP Crystal Reports
 What’s new in SAP Crystal Reports for SAP BusinessObjects BI
4.0?
 SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise
 SAP Integration
 What’s new in SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1?
 Recommendation
 Questions

Open, agnostic, and unified
Access any data, consume information anywhere
Enterprise
Portals
MS OfficeOn Demand
ServicesBrowsersMobile Devices
ERP
SAP Business Suite
Oracle E-Business Suite
PeopleSoft
JD Edwards
Unstructured data
in Social Media and
Hadoop
OLAP Cubes
Embedded
Content
MS ExcelOracle, IBM DB2,
Microsoft SQL Server
and other relational data
sources
Unified Semantic Layer
Business Intelligence Platform
EDW
SAP NetWeaver BW
Teradata
Other data warehouses
SAP HANA Platform
Self-Service Dashboards and Apps Reporting

SAP Business Intelligence
One Suite for All Insight
ReportingSelf-service
Dashboards
and Apps
 Deliver engaging information to users where they need it
 Track key performance indicators and summary data
 Build custom experiences so users get what they need quickly
 Securely distribute information across your
organization
 Answer related questions by interacting with
pre-defined reports
 Build printable reports for operational efficiency
 Discover areas to optimize your business
 Adapt data to business needs
 Tell your story with beautiful visualizations
Discover. Predict. Create.
Build Engaging Experiences
Distribute Information

Self-service
Discover. Predict. Create.
Agility for business analysts and business users
 Discover trends, outliers and areas of interest in your business
 Adapt to business scenarios by combining, manipulating, and
enriching data
 Tell your story with self-service visualizations and analytics
 Forecast and predict future outcomes
Portfolio
 Lumira
 Explorer*
 Analysis*
 Predictive Analysis*
* SAP BusinessObjects Explorer; SAP BusinessObjects Analysis; SAP Predictive Analysis

Dashboards and Apps
Build Engaging Experiences
Build engaging, visual dashboards
 Powerful environment to build interactive and visually
appealing analytics
 Rich set of controls: buttons, list boxes, drop-down,
crosstabs, charts…
 Use custom code to extend and build workflows
Portfolio
 Design Studio*
 Dashboards (aka Xcelsius)*
* SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio; SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards

Reporting
Share Information
High productivity design 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
Portfolio
 Web Intelligence*
 Crystal Reports*
* SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence; SAP Crystal Reports

For Internal Operational Reports and Customer Facing
 Easy to consume, highly formatted documents with guided interactivity
 Personalized, information rich documents communicate value quickly
SAP Crystal Reports
Proven world standard for pixel-perfect reports

Transform Data to Stunning Pixel-Perfect Documents
Report Author build reports quickly
Build Professional Quality
Documents Easily
 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
Large Scale
Business Applications
Multiple delivery options

SAP Crystal Reports
What’s new in SAP Crystal Reports for SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0?

SAP Crystal Reports in BI 4.x
With the release of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) 4.0 , there are
two versions of Crystal Reports available for use with the BI Platform.
SAP Crystal Reports for enterprise
 Major update & re-design of the
Crystal Reports Designer and
associated processing servers
 Provides the foundation for all
future releases of Crystal Reports
SAP Crystal Reports 2011/2013
 Incremental update to CR 2008 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

FAQ
Can both CR 2011/2013 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 2011/2013 designer and the CR for Enterprise
designer be installed on the same workstation?
 Yes
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 2011/2013. Consider using CR for Enterprise of new
projects. Migrate CR 2011/2013 reports to CR for Enterprise when time permits.
How long will CR 2011/2013 versions be around and supported for?
 For the supported lifecycle of 4.x which is a minimum of 7+2 years from the initial
4.0 release.

FAQ
How do I migrate a report from CR 2011/2013 to CR for Enterprise?
 Open the CR 2011/2013 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.

Design and deliver information to engage and empower your audience
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
Scalable and efficient content delivery for ease of consumption
New multilingual support reduces TCO by minimizing the number of reports required to support a global deployment
New alerting mechanism enables faster dissemination of information to the entire organization
New Crystal Reports SDK’s provides flexible report embeddibility

SAP Crystal Reports 2008

Easy-to-use, new design environment for novice and professional designers
Create simple reports to represent complex data within a few minutes
Streamlined experience across the suite
Create Stunning Documents faster than ever before
Tabbed Tool Bar
WYSIWYG
Point and Click
Easy-to-use
Navigation Panel

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

Modern styling and unified look and feel for all BI solutions
Common query design experience across all data sources
Consistent Experience Across the BI Suite

3 New Visualizations
Tag Cloud
 Displays a cloud of dimensions
 Tags are drillable
Treemap
 Uses the size and color of a box to denote
importance of a dimension in relation to the data
set being analyzed
 Each box is drillable
Box Plot
 Charts five dimensions of data and outliers
 Drillable

Single trusted version of the truth
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
HANA support via HANA-JDBC to display tables, views,
and analytic views
New Data sources: Hadoop Hive, Essbase, XML files,
Webservices (WSDL 1.1) and OData 2.0
Common Semantic Layer (.UNX)
Reduced learning curve and effort to build reports

Data Sources – Direct to Data Support
Provide direct connectivity to Enterprise focused data sources without requiring a pre-authored
data model.
Supported data sources
 Generic ODBC, JDBC, OLEDB
 Oracle, MySQL, DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Access,
Microsoft Excel, Sybase, Teradata, SAP HANA
 Displays previously created connections
 Leverage data mapping UI from online templates feature
Lower TCO with shared data connections
 Reports that run on the BI Platform now utilize shared data
connections instead of having data connection information stored
per report.

How it Works
Reports Managed by the BI Platform
DBMS
Report
Report
Report
DBMS
Info
DBMS
Info DBMS
Info
Relational
Connection
Report
Report
Report
DBMS
Crystal Reports For Enterprise Crystal Reports 2011
CR for Enterprise reports saved to BI Platform MUST use Relational Connection objects to hold
connection info. CR 2011 reports continue to store connection info in each report.

Simplifying Enterprise Reporting
SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise with Relational Connections
Simplified Authoring
 Create reports directly off relational data sources without first modeling the data
 Connect to data in a few clicks, without knowing database system details
Simplified Deployment
 Maintain DBMS middleware in a single place (on server, not on designer desktop)
 Ease Life Cycle Management
Simplified Administration
 Change DBMS connections for multiple reports all at once
 Reduce report maintenance costs

SAP BusinessObjects Analysis,
Edition for OLAP
SAP BusinessObjects Analysis,
Edition for MS Office
Analyze data , zero in on the area of interest , leverage the view
within SAP Crystal reports to broadly publish the reports
Interoperability with SAP BusinessObjects Analysis
Flexibility to format and share content

 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
Multi-lingual Reporting
Reduce effort and number of reports for global deployments

SAP Crystal Reports
Scalable and efficient content delivery

 Users subscribe to alerts within BI
launch pad
 Notifies subscribers when specific
criteria has been met
Platform Driven Alerting
Reduce information overload with exception reporting

New BI Platform Features for CR content
Insight to Action
 Bind SAP Report to Report Interface (RRI) actions to report
objects
 Enable actions via a simple right-click menu command
 Invoke actions from the report
 Invoking an available action on field passes data from
report
 Supported only for reports based on BEx Queries

Planned innovations
New Crystal Reports SDK
RESTful Web Service
 Navigate reports via REST service
 Expose Report Structure/Metadata represented in OData and data
exposed via JSON
 Push data into the report
 Supports multiple export formats via a single URI call
 Platform support
 Supports both CR 2011 and CR for Enterprise content
 Embed report content via any HTTP/Web capable programming
language
CR Javascript API
 Embedding
 Client rendering handled via server-side Javascript
 Supports CSS styling
 No client-side installation or deployment
 Javascript
 Event listener support to load custom javascript functions (i.e.
events for drill downs and group hierarchies)
 openDocument URL’s are compatible with CR JavaScript API
customizations
 Integration with other APIs (e.g., Google Maps, Google
Translation)
 Logo customization in the viewer, Styling / Skinning of DHTML
Viewer

SAP Crystal Reports
SAP Integration

Best in Class SAP BW Access
Based 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

Low TCO BW Access in BI 4.0
SAP NetWeaver BW
BEx Query
Crystal
Reports
Web
Intelligence
Xcelsius
Universe
InfoProviders
BICSBAPI
MDX
SAP NetWeaver BW
BEx Query
Crystal Reports, Web Intelligence,
Dashboards, Design Studio and Analysis
InfoProviders
Before: Silo’ed connectivities
in SAP BusinessObjects XI 3.1
After: Unified direct BICS access
in SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0
BICS

SAP Crystal Reports for
Enterprise 4.1

SAP Crystal Reports 2013
New
 Support Solaris 11
 Support Red hat 6 (should be in 4.1 SP01+)
 New connectivity: Hadoop Hive
 Updated db version support, like SQL Server 2012, HANA SPS5, Sybase IQ,
Sybase ASE etc
 Upgraded Data Direct ODBC driver from version 6.0 SP2 to version 7.0.1.
 New language – Arabic and Slovenia. Supports RTL for Arabic in BI Launchpad.
 HANA SSO with SAML
 Added OEM customization template, to guide OEM customers to rebrand CR
designer.
 Consistent versioning, so that correct patch number are always shown

SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise
Comprehensive Support for SAP HANA
Create Crystal Reports based on HANA’s relational and OLAP data structures
 Direct OLAP access to Analytic and
Calculated views including hierarchies &
variables (required BI Platform to manage
connections)
 Authored relational UNX universe support
 Direct Relational access (JDBC & ODBC) to
tables, views, and analytic views
 Support for JDBC & ODBC SSL
 Authentication: Single Sign on through SAML

Streamline Report Design
The SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise designer introduces more efficient workflows and features focused
on reducing time to create and format reports
Freehand SQL command object
 Customize the SQL to optimize the query to
relational data sources
Verify Database options
 Ensure the report query reflects the modifications
to the underlying data source
Subreport Enhancements
 The datasource for a subreport is no longer
restricted to be of the same type as the main
report.
 Eg. A BW report with an ERP universe subreport
is now possible

Data Sources
Significant focus on performance and reliability is provided in BI 4.1 when accessing BEX queries through
Crystal Reports
Enhanced SAP BW support
 Persist variable values in query panel and consume in HTML
viewer
 Level selection for BW Hierarchy Variables
 Level selection based on relative depth for BW Hierarchy
Node Variables
 Variable selection before design time display of query panel
 Toggle between technical name vs. member caption for BW
variables
Enhanced SAP ECC support
 Support SAP ECC’s optional parameters with no default
value when access through an authored universe

Mobile and Viewers
Interactive Crystal Reports in SAP
BusinessObjects Mobile BI
 Opendoc support in Mobile BI
Right to Left support in HTML viewer
 Mirrored interface based on product locale
 Right to left reporting of Arabic
 Bi-directional text support in a single report
Other enhancements
 Paging capability for flat LOVs in HTML viewer (next,
previous)
 Default view action in BI Launchpad

OEM/Developer
Allow application developers to use Opendoc API with very long URL
OEM/Developer
 Support for Opendoc POST request

SAP Crystal Reports
Recommendations

SAP Crystal Reports
2011
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 2008, CR
2011/2013 and CRe content from the same
common platform
Adopt SAP Crystal Reports for enterprise
“Risk free” adoption of Innovation

Questions?
Session Code: 8881
Idea Place (enhancement requests): http://ideas.sap.com
Product Documentation: http://help.sap.com/
4.x eLearning: http://www.sap.com/LearnBI
CR 2011 to CR for Enterprise wiki:
http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/From+Crystal+Reports+200
8+to+SAP+Crystal+Reports+2011+or+SAP+Crystal+Reports+for+Enter
prise
Henry Kam
Enterprise Reporting Solution Manager
henry.kam@sap.com

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