Arizona Business Objects and Crystal User Group (AZBOCUG) Crystal Reports for Enterprise 4.0. February 9, 2012

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1 Arizona Business Objects and Crystal User Group (AZBOCUG) Crystal Reports for Enterprise 4.0 February 9, 2012

2 Agenda Two versions of Crystal Reports Crystal Reports 2011 Crystal Reports for the Enterprise Roadmap & options Demonstration June 2011 Inspired Business Intelligence 2

3 Crystal Reports 2011 Highlights UI remains the same as for CR 2008 Minimal New Features Read-only Report Format Export to XLSX Integration with Visual Studio 2010 June 2011 Inspired Business Intelligence 3

4 Read Only Format Designer Export CR Read Only Designer - cannot open June 2011 Inspired Business Intelligence 4

5 Export to XLSX June 2011 Inspired Business Intelligence 5

6 Visual Studio 10 Full support for WPF Viewer June 2011 Inspired Business Intelligence 6

7 Crystal Reports for Enterprise Installed as part of client tools install with BI 4.0 Complete redesign of the User Interface Access most-used features more easily Conform to a broad unification of the UI across multiple BI tools New foundation for future releases of Crystal Reports (Today) Can only access data from the new Common Semantic Layer (CSL) & BW Queries June 2011 Inspired Business Intelligence 7

8 Streamlined UI Design Criteria More intuitive UI for new and existing users Unified UI across multiple BI report design tools June 2011 Inspired Business Intelligence 8

9 Grouping/Sorting Single UI to manage all report groups and sorts June 2011 Inspired Business Intelligence 9

10 Guidelines Smart Guidelines Guidelines for column resizing Handles for column reordering Automatic resizing & shifting for column insertion Smart Default Formatting Detects patterns in formatting and adjusts default settings accordingly June 2011 Inspired Business Intelligence 10

11 Charting Simplified interface NO new chart types June 2011 Inspired Business Intelligence 11

12 Hierarchies Hierarchy-aware semantic layer June 2011 Inspired Business Intelligence 12

13 Semantic Layer Examples The delegated measure cannot be calculated for this context A hierarchy field should be placed in a hierarchical group area This [object type] may have multiple values in this context; only the first value is being displayed Underlying semantic layer provides intelligence to the report designer June 2011 Inspired Business Intelligence 13

14 Analysis Views Save an Analysis View on the platform and use as a data source for Crystal Reports for Enterprise June 2011 Inspired Business Intelligence 14

15 Multi Lingual Use Crystal Reports metadata Text Fields, Prompts, Tool tips, etc. SAP BOBJ Platform Support Translation Manager Schedule Translations Schedule Reports in Multiple Languages June 2011 Inspired Business Intelligence 15

16 Platform Alerts Alerts Driven from the BI Platform Notifies individual subscribers when alert criteria has been met Subscriptions managed within the InfoView portal Subscription at time of reports viewing or through a subscription center June 2011 Inspired Business Intelligence 16

17 What s Next? 4.0 Crystal Reports for Enterprise Ease of content creation Common semantic layer/bw queries UI Harmonization across BI client tools Operable with advanced analytics Alerting/subscription Multi-lingual 64 bit Crystal Reports 2011 RPTR format Export to XLSX Integration in VS 2010 & WPF viewer 4.1 Crystal Reports for Enterprise Direct to data Improved charting Live office support Enterprise search on BI platform New API introduced Greater content interoperability More from CSL (VTS) June 2011 Inspired Business Intelligence 17

18 Which Tool is Right for You? Crystal Reports 2011 Existing or new customers that need direct access to data sources Existing or new customers that need access to SAP ERP data sources Existing or new customers that are embedding Crystal Reports into Applications Crystal Reports for Enterprise Existing or new customers that have no investments in Crystal Reports Existing or new customers with reports that connect to BW data only Existing customers with Crystal Reports that access the Universe New customers looking to standardize reporting against the semantic layer June 2011 Inspired Business Intelligence 18

19 Demonstration June 2011 Inspired Business Intelligence 19