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BI 4.0 Client Tools Crystal Reports for Enterprise (CR4E / CR Java)

BI 4.0 Client Tools Crystal Reports for Enterprise (CR4E / CR Java). Henry Banks. Confidential. Agenda: Crystal Reports for Enterprise. Overview Common Semantic Layer (CSL) Configuration Exporting ML reports in BOE Report Designer Analysis to CR interoperability

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BI 4.0 Client Tools Crystal Reports for Enterprise (CR4E / CR Java)

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  1. BI 4.0 Client ToolsCrystal Reports for Enterprise (CR4E / CR Java) Henry Banks Confidential

  2. Agenda: Crystal Reports for Enterprise • Overview • Common Semantic Layer (CSL) • Configuration • Exporting • ML reports in BOE • Report Designer • Analysis to CR interoperability • SAP integration • CR11 and CR4E coexist on BOE

  3. Streamlined UI Easier UI navigation for existing and new report designers Align common UI elements across the entire SAP BusinessObjects suite

  4. Groups, Totals and Sorts Streamlined UI for inserting groups Streamlined UI for inserting totals One UI to manage groups and sorts

  5. Charting

  6. Smart Guidelines • Smart Guidelines Guidelines for easy column resizing Handles for column reordering Automatic resizing and column shifting for object / column insertion • Smart Default Formatting The designer detects patterns in formatting settings in the document and adjust defaults automatically

  7. Semantic Warnings – ‘Recommended Review’ • Semantic Warnings • Leveraging semantic information from the Universe, the designer provides UI feedback on possible report design flaws

  8. Converting to CSL 1 2 3

  9. Hierarchy Aware Hierarchy in Crosstab Hierarchy in Chart

  10. Multi Source DF Enabled

  11. Consuming Analysis Views Consume Analysis View in CR

  12. Multi-Lingual Capabilities Crystal Reports metadata • Text Objects • Prompts • Tooltips • Anything with text… Supported BusinessObjects Enterprise features • Translation Manager • Translate Locally or via Export/Import using XLFF • Schedulable Translation Schedule reports in multiple languages

  13. Platform Driven Alerting • Notifies individual subscribers when specific data criteria has been met • Subscriptions are managed within the InfoView portal by users • Users can subscribe to an alert when viewing a report or by viewing a list of alerts in a “subscription center”

  14. SAP Integration Data Access • SAP BW: • SAP Cubes via ‘legacy’ MDX UNV • Direct Access to SAP BW Query • Common OLAP connection centrally managed in BOE or IDT • Leverage SAP BICS BEx interface via ‘Transient Universe’ Prompting • Native support • Support native SAP variable concept • Hierarchical Node & LOV ; Key date Multilingual • Use Translation Manager Life Cycle Management • Use BOBJ Life Cycle Manager

  15. Crystal Reports for Enterprise Data Connectivity Options for SAP Customers This presentation and SAP’s strategy and possible future developments are subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for any reason without notice. This document is provided without a warranty of any kind either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement.

  16. What’s Not in the Initial Release • NO direct to data support • NO direct to OLAP support (other than BEx Queries) • No direct access to SAP ERP (R/3) • NO Live Office support • NO Enterprise Search • API & SDK Gaps (new AJAX and RESTful SDK planned for 4.1 to provide support for almost any web development environment. ) • CR for Enterprise XI 4.0 SAP BW reports no longer save to SAP BW repository, the following features are not available on CR for Enterprise SAP BW reports: • RRI • SAP Variable Personalization

  17. Architecture HTTP(S) Crystal Reports for Enterprise BIP Web Service web-services for RPT Java Reporting Component CMS CORBA Dimensional Semantic Layer XMLA BICS Connection Server CORBA for data-access / universe retrieval Connection Server Instance JCo SAP BW Relational Datasource HTTP(S) MS SQL Analysis Services

  18. Crystal Reports Services Overview • Overview of services required by Crystal Reports functionality: • “Crystal Reports Processing Server” • 2 types exist for ENT and 2011 documents • “Crystal Reports Job Server” • 2 types exist for ENT and 2011 documents • “Crystal Reports Cache Server” • 1 type for both types of documents • “Crystal Reports 2010 Viewing and Modification Service” • Provides support for Crystal Reports 2010 SDK applications • Provided by a Report Application Server • Crystal Report 2010 Scheduling Service • Now consolidates legacy List of Value Scheduling Service

  19. Architecture Overview

  20. Overview of the Crystal Reports SDKs offered by Crystal Reports versions • CR 2008 reports RAS SDK applications can migrate immediately: • Fully supported by Crystal Reports 2011 processing stack • BOE Java SDK available immediately for Crystal Report 2011 : • Applications using the Crystal Reports processing servers to view reports will be fully supported (i.e. OpenDocument & URL-based API ) • Applications using the BOE SDK to schedule / publish reports are fully supported • Building applications which utilize the .NET SDK not be possible in the initial release • No SDK support to modify “CR for Enterprise” documents • Customers looking to build applications that modify or create reports designed using the SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise Designer will have to wait for a subsequent release

  21. Questions

  22. Labs • 3.1_CRE_create_csl_rpt_lab.pdf • 3.2_UsingCommonConnect_Lab.pdf • 3.3_Member_Select_Lab.pdf • 3.4_DesignWorkflow_Lab.pdf • 3.5_UsingSmartGuide_Lab.pdf • 3.6_CRE_Hierarchy_lab.pdf

  23. Further Reading: CR positioning & upgrade considerations: http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/From+Crystal+Reports+2008+to+SAP+Crystal+Reports+2011+or+SAP+Crystal+Reports+for+Enterprise CR4ENT High-Level Architecture: https://portal.wdf.sap.corp/irj/go/km/docs/guid/d19638fb-61e4-2d10-8eae-a24f3c58466c

  24. Thank you!

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