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Design and Deliver Pixel-Perfect Reports Presenting Business-Critical Information

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Summary •• Broad data connectivity – Connect to •• Minimize use of valuable technical SAP® Crystal Reports® software continues information sources across the organi- resources while meeting business a tradition of excellence in providing pow- zation directly or through the common users’ requirements inside and outside erful, user-friendly, and dynamic reporting semantic layer the organization functionality. SAP Crystal Reports can •• Powerful, large-scale report delivery •• Build stronger relationships with your help companies of all sizes deliver critical options – Deliver personalized reports business users, customers, and part- information to business users inside and to hundreds of thousands of consum- ners by delivering reliable, personalized outside the organization. ers’ preferred destinations in their information preferred language and format Business Challenges For More Information •• Insufficient access to high-quality data Business Benefits To learn more, call your SAP representa- and reports that support fast decision •• Improve productivity and efficiency tive or visit www..com/solutions making with professional reports that give a /sapbusinessobjects/large/business •• Company data that spreads across dis- clear picture of business performance -intelligence/reporting-analysis/sap parate sources and applications •• Help business users make better -crystal-reports/index.epx. •• Inconsistent reporting approaches that decisions more quickly by providing fail to provide accurate information reliable data from sources across the enterprise Key Features •• Meet specific reporting needs with •• Professional report design – Create flexible, customizable, and scalable highly formatted, pixel-perfect reports reporting functionality quickly SAP® Crystal Reports® software enables report authors to trans- business. Personalized, professional- form data from virtually any source into pixel-perfect, data-rich looking documents can be pushed to or documents and deliver them to external and internal consumers. pulled by consumers to their choice of destination and are available for ready Based on reliable data from across your organization, these doc- access. uments provide immediate value and answers to key questions. Flexible features such as on-report sorting, filtering, and the ability to drill down into detailed information allow Changing conditions in today’s fast- organizations adopt a flexible and scal- business users to answer more ques- paced business environment require able reporting approach to deliver fast tions with fewer reports, thus signifi- decision makers in any organization to insight to decision makers? cantly reducing dependency on IT. be well informed and respond quickly to The answer lies with SAP Crystal Examples of formatted documents emerging opportunities to stay ahead of Reports, the de facto standard in include commission statements, finan- the competition. This means businesses reporting. This software continues a cial statements, invoices, purchase across all industries must provide ready- two-decade tradition of excellence in orders, renewal notices, mailing labels, to-consume information in operational providing powerful, user-friendly, and and checks. and other reports to people internally dynamic reporting functionality. SAP and externally – including partners and Crystal Reports can help companies Enhanced, Intuitive Design customers. The reports must be mass of all sizes deliver personalized, highly Environment personalized so they are individually formatted reports with relevant infor- relevant and then delivered to hundreds mation to hundreds of thousands of This user-friendly, best-in-class reporting or thousands of recipients. How can business users. These documents may solution provides an intuitive interface be operational reports necessary to with efficient workflows that allow report run day-to-day business or external, authors to build elegant reports in a Figure: A Variety of Elements Readily customer-facing documents. In either matter of minutes (see the figure). They Combined in a Report case, the reports deliver accurate infor- can use point-and-click techniques mation that enables decision makers and can simply drag and drop objects to answer critical questions at a glance into the “what you see is what you get” and make solid decisions. (WYSIWYG) report canvas. Smart guide- With SAP Crystal Reports, report lines help report authors insert, move, authors can: and align objects by automatically •• Create highly formatted, pixel-perfect adjusting the layout of the report. The reports quickly software also allows report authors to •• Connect to data sources spread across insert summaries, variances, and other the organization directly or through custom calculations without any the common semantic layer programming. •• Deliver personalized reports to busi- ness users in their preferred language Powerful, Flexible and format and to their preferred des- Functionality tination (desktop, mobile device, or Web) SAP Crystal Reports provides a wide range of charting and visualization func- Interactive Pixel-Perfect tionality to make your reports more Reports appealing and easier for business users to consume. Conditional formatting The stunning, sophisticated reports built allows fine-grained control of report with SAP Crystal Reports software give appearance, with rich formula language decision makers visibility into enterprise that can embed business logic with- performance for a clearer view of the in reports. The integration of SAP BusinessObjects™ Dashboards software to data sources, including hierarchical users can use these embedded applica- with SAP Crystal Reports enables report sources, report authors can quickly tions to make operational choices such authors to leverage a comprehensive turn any company data into compelling, as writing back to the database. library of easy-to-use interactive charts, feature-rich reports. maps, gauges, and sliders and quickly Multilingual Information in a embed them into their reports – again High-Performance Content Single Deployment without writing any program code. Delivery The software gives report authors For enterprises with global dealings in great flexibility in creating reports. For SAP Crystal Reports runs on a flexible, today’s interconnected business envi- example, authors are not limited by their scalable architecture to fit the needs of ronment, working with multiple lan- printer-specific page sizes; they can cus- any size enterprise. You can publish guages is a must. SAP Crystal Reports tomize page sizes and page breaks and reports to hundreds of thousands of offers multilingual functionality that can combine portrait- and landscape- business users inside and outside the allows report authors to deliver reports oriented pages within the same report. organization. The reports can be made in their business users’ native languages. available on the Web, desktops, and Report authors can create a single report Superior Connectivity and mobile devices. Report authors can that can be published in multiple lan- Data Access deliver information to meet the needs of guages, enabling organizations to stan- business users in various roles inside dardize on a single reporting solution. With SAP Crystal reports, you can tap and outside the company. For example, This reduces deployment costs and gives into virtually any data source, whether personalized commission statements a larger number of people access to SAP or non-SAP. You can connect either can be published to thousands of recipi- trusted information. directly or through the new semantic ents at a time, lowering your overall layer. administration costs. Crystal-Clear Benefits The robust, patented semantic layer SAP Crystal Reports also allows you to not only hides the complexity of underly- embed your reports in transactional soft- With SAP Crystal Reports, report authors ing data sources but also enables an eas- ware systems such as enterprise can create highly formatted, professional ier, more consistent experience across all resource planning or customer relation- reports that provide business users data sources. The semantic layer also ship management applications. Business across the enterprise with a clear picture supports the reuse of hierarchies, calcu- users can work more efficiently and of business performance and help lated fields, and metadata, helping make effectively by staying within the same improve productivity and efficiency. The key information available rapidly. In addi- application for their reporting needs. software offers a full spectrum of data tion, the semantic layer offers multisource Operational workflows can also be inte- connectivity, is flexible and customizable, universe functionality, delivering relevant grated in reports generated with SAP and scales to produce high volumes of information based on more than one data Crystal Reports by embedding Adobe reports. source. With broad and flexible access Flex applications. For example, business

Stunning, sophisticated reports give decision makers visibility into enterprise performance and a clear view of the business. This means business users can consume reports easily and take action immediately. www.sap.com/contactsap

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The upshot is that you can meet the of business performance using any data varying needs of your diverse community from any application and any platform, of business users, inside and outside the and they encourage collaboration to organization, with minimal use of techni- improve decision making and resolve cal resources. Your business users can issues. SAP Crystal Reports scales to get answers to their questions and make meet the needs of any size organization decisions more quickly. And you can and leverages your investment in other build stronger relationships with your SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions, business users, customers, and partners reducing the overall cost of your enter- by delivering reliable, personalized prise BI deployments. information. Part of the SAP BusinessObjects port- Find Out More folio of solutions, SAP Crystal Reports is an integral piece of a broader business To learn more about SAP Crystal Reports intelligence (BI) strategy and provides software, call your SAP representative information reliably and securely over or visit www.sap.com/solutions the Web or within enterprise applica- /sapbusinessobjects/large/business tions. SAP BusinessObjects solutions are -intelligence/reporting-analysis/sap open, action oriented, and connected. -crystal-reports/index.epx. They deliver a complete, intuitive profile