SAP BusinessObjects Crystal Reports 2011

SAP Crystal Reports 2011

Enable Informed Decision Making – Design and Deliver Powerful, Flexible Reports

As a trusted name in reporting, IT professionals, report authors, and developers have been using SAP Crystal Reports software for almost two decades to create powerful, user-friendly, and dynamic reports from virtually any data source. You can transform overwhelming amounts of transactional and relational data into richly formatted reports and deliver actionable information to business users, inside and outside the organization This product is currently available through SAP’s Ramp-Up program.

• Flexible, customizable report design – Create highly formatted, pixel-perfect reports quickly with SAP Crystal Reports’ intuitive design interface and efficient workflows.
• Dashboards and visualizations – Generate interactive dashboards and report visualizations without the need for any coding.
• Broad data connectivity – Connect to information sources spread across the organization directly. Data sources include: Native, ODBC, OLE DB, and JDBC connectivity to relational, OLAP, Web services, XML, enterprise data sources, and salesforce.com.
• Powerful report delivery options – Deliver personalized reports to your business users’ preferred destination in their preferred language and format.
• Windows 7 compatible – SAP Crystal Reports software 2011 is certified compatible with Microsoft Windows 7.
• Expanded support for Excel – XLSX export takes full advantage of the new Excel file format by allowing more data to be exported to a single worksheet, without spanning multiple worksheets.
• Read-only report viewing – The new RPTR format provides a read-only RPT export option, giving you the confidence that users won’t be able to modify reports.
• SAP Crystal Dashboard Design software, Adobe Flex, and Adobe Flash integration – Enable SAP Crystal Reports developers to produce powerful "mash-ups" pulling data from various sources.

Technical Specifications

• Operating systems: Microsoft Windows 7, Windows Vista SP2, Windows XP SP3, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003 SP2.
• Hardware requirement: Intel Pentium III or equivalent processor, 256 MB RAM, 512 MB Recommended.
• Disk space: 2 GB for default installation with English language, 4 GB for default installation with all languages installed.
• Data sources: Native, ODBC, OLE DB, and JDBC connectivity to relational, OLAP, Web services, XML, salesforce.com driver, legacy and enterprise data sources.
• Languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Dutch, Swedish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Norwegian, Thai, Danish, Finnish, Czech, Hungarian, Slovakian, Turkish.

Please note: SAP Crystal Reports software is now available through the SAP Ramp-Up program, a standardized process for introducing new SAP solutions to the market. SAP Ramp-Up enables customers to communicate real-world experiences directly to SAP product development experts. You benefit from new SAP functionalities, services or technologies, which can help you to effectively expedite the implementation of solutions that are not yet generally available. SAP Ramp-Up customers will be asked to provide feedback on their product experiences via a post-product download survey. Learn more about SAP Ramp-Up.

SAP Crystal Reports Installation Guide
SAP Crystal Reports 2011 User's Guide
SAP Crystal Reports 2011 eLearning Catalog

Visualize and Present Interactive Information – Turn Data Into Dynamic Business Intelligence Dashboards

SAP Crystal Dashboard Design software enables users of different skill levels to create insightful and engaging dashboards from any data source with point-and-click ease. The resulting data visualizations–including including maps, charts, and gauges–present critical business key performance indicators (KPIs) within stunning, consumable dashboard views. What-if analysis functionality helps extend current data relationships for predictive study and forecasting. This product is currently available through SAP’s Ramp-Up program.

• Performance monitoring – Consolidate multiple reports and data from various locations into a single dashboard.
• Improved decision making – View corporate data in an understandable format.
• Predictive modeling – See the impact of your decisions immediately with what-if scenarios based on real-time data.
• Information management – Use the tools you already have to make information available to everyone.
• Easy data access – When used with SAP Crystal Server software, the "Query Panel" accesses data through the Universe semantic layer making it easy to integrate live data into your dashboard.

Technical Specifications

• Operating systems: Microsoft Windows 7, Windows Vista SP2 and SP1, Windows XP SP3 and SP2, Windows Server 2003 SP1 and SP2. Microsoft Excel 2010 (32-bit only), 2007 SP1 and SP2, 2003 SP2 and XP.
• Memory: 1.8 GHz processor Memory: 2GB RAM.
• Disk space: 900 MB available hard drive space.
• Live data sources: SOAP-based Web services, SAP Crystal Reports software via Live Office, XML, Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services 2005, Adobe Livecycle Data Services ES 2.5.1, Flash variables, and any ODBC data source via SAP Crystal Reports Server Web service design tool (sold separately as part of SAP Crystal Reports Server).
• Portal Software: SharePoint Server 2007, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, IBM WebSphere Portal 6.13.
• Languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Dutch, Swedish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Norwegian, Thai, Danish, Finnish, Czech, Hungarian, Slovakian, Turkish.

Please note: SAP Crystal Reports software is now available through the SAP Ramp-Up program, a standardized process for introducing new SAP solutions to the market. SAP Ramp-Up enables customers to communicate real-world experiences directly to SAP product development experts. You benefit from new SAP functionalities, services or technologies, which can help you to effectively expedite the implementation of solutions that are not yet generally available. SAP Ramp-Up customers will be asked to provide feedback on their product experiences via a post-product download survey. Learn more about SAP Ramp-Up.

Visualize and Present Interactive Information – Turn Data Into Dynamic Business Intelligence Dashboards

Crystal Presentation Design software enables business users to create professional, Adobe Flash–based interactive data presentations from ordinary Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, and share them via Microsoft Office and Adobe PDF. This product is currently available through SAP’s Ramp-Up program.

If you can use Microsoft Excel, you can use SAP Crystal Presentation Design software to create eye-catching data presentations. Change number-intensive spreadsheets, such as financial results and complex calculations, into interactive, analytic visualizations. You can present data and complex calculations in a way that that goes far beyond static tables, charts, and graphs, and can lead you to insights you may not have seen otherwise.

• Point-and-click ease – Build an interactive data presentation without any programming.
• What-if scenarios – See the impact of your decisions immediately.
• Prebuilt templates – Get started instantly with ready-to-use data presentation templates.
• Export functionality – Share your presentations via Microsoft Office and Adobe PDF.

Technical Specifications

• Operating systems: Microsoft Windows 7, Windows Vista SP2 and SP1, Windows XP SP3 and SP2, Windows Server 2003 SP1 and SP2. Microsoft Excel 2010 (32-bit only), 2007 SP1 and SP2, 2003 SP2 and XP.
• Memory: 1.8 GHz processor Memory: 2GB RAM.
• Disk space: 600 MB available hard drive space.
• Languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Dutch, Swedish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Norwegian, Thai, Danish, Finnish, Czech, Hungarian, Slovakian, Turkish.

Please note: SAP Crystal Presentation Design software is now available through the SAP Ramp-Up program, a standardized process for introducing new SAP solutions to the market. SAP Ramp-Up enables customers to communicate real-world experiences directly to SAP product development experts. You benefit from new SAP functionalities, services or technologies, which can help you to effectively expedite the implementation of solutions that are not yet generally available. SAP Ramp-Up customers will be asked to provide feedback on their product experiences via a post-product download survey. Learn more about SAP Ramp-Up.

The SAP Crystal Reports Viewer has been updated to ensure that it has the necessary features to display and interact with content created by both SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise and SAP Crystal Reports 2011.

Key New Features

• Enhanced print dialog for Windows clients.
• Can open reports built in either SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise or SAP Crystal Reports 2011.
• Breadcrumbs, the navigation path, is now located at the top of the report rather than in the status bar.
• Export your reports to Microsoft Excel 2007 workbook format directly from the viewer.