Crystal Reports for SAP Business One May 2012 Adam Pedersen, SAP UKI
Reporting from SAP Business One Reporting is a very simple concept... Your Data USEFUL INFORMATION and a vital business application! 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 2
Information is not always Reaching Business Users Gut Feel Decisions All of the time 3% Base: 675 US and European business executives and managers Source: BusinessWeek Research Services 75% of the time 50% of the time 25% of the time 16% 36% 42% Gut Feel used by >60% of people, >50% of the time Never 3% Information available for important business decisions Usually too little 41% 22% 38% Always just the right amount (rare) Usually too much Aware of bad decisions managers have made due to insufficient information 77% 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 3
The history of Information... 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 4
How have we been able to report previously? Standard Reports Simple queries More complex queries with associated layout XL Reporter Other external reporting tool 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 5
What happened? 2008 - SAP acquires Business Objects 2009 - SAP Business One customers benefit from first integration of Crystal Reports 2010 - SAP Business One 8.8 released with full Crystal Reports 2008 Integration 2010 Cockpits introduced with Crystal Dashboards 2011 - SAP Business One 8.82 released with further enhancements to include saved query upload to BI OnDemand 2012 Ramp-Up for SAP Business One 9.0 with full integration to Crystal Reports 2011 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 6
Crystal Reports 2008 Turning data into actionable information 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 7
Crystal Reports 2008 Intuitive reporting solution helps create flexible, feature-rich, and dependable reports and printouts. The de-facto standard in Desktop reporting Around 20m+ licenses sold c. 1bn.rpt files in use OEM partnered in 000 s of applications in MS Visual Basic and VS.NET Out of the box integration with other desktop apps. 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 8
Crystal Reports Server Crystal Reports creates reports from data sources E.g. SQL Crystal Reports Server allows reports to be viewed on the Web (infrastructure) Web 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 9
Why Crystal Reports Server? Leverages existing Crystal Reports Allows easy self service report distribution Scheduling and Security A single, shared version of the truth No desktop software required by user (only browser) Automate repetitive report requirements Share reports both internally and externally 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 10
Why Crystal Reports Server? Hi levels of IT involvement in report creation/re-running Hi levels of report consumption not creation Automation of repetitive report requirements / tasks Data security issues Sharing data with external stakeholders 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 11
SAP Crystal Dashboard Design WHAT IF.? 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 12
you could do this instead? 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 13
Or even something like this? 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 14
Crystal Xcelcius Enables users to look ahead not just behind A picture paints a thousand words Directed What-if analysis Direct, real time dashboard alerting Collaborative SWF file integration as standard 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 15
Most Popular Usage Finance Sales Management Marketing HR Purchasing...plus millions of MS Excel users! 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 16
BI OnDemand http://www.biondemand.com/businessintelligence Powerful, cloud-based reporting tool Queries can be saved in SAP Business One and exported to BI OnDemand Free to create account and use! 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 17
What do I get as a SAP Business One Customer? Crystal Reports 2008 Designer License All customers on maintenance and all new customers entitled to receive and deploy a single named user of Crystal reports 2008 for SAP B1 for free Designer License needed to build templates used with runtime engine to create reports or any type of printouts Additional designer licenses can be purchased through a local SAP BusinessObjects distributor or via the SAP BusinessObjects online shop Run-Time Engine Needed to run the templates or any printout directly on the computer of the user. In SAP Business One 8.8, the SAP Crystal Reports run-time engine will be installed together with the SAP Business One 8.8 installation 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 18
What do I get as a SAP Business One Customer? This version of SAP Crystal Reports 2008 has been designed to work only with data from SAP Business One. This is the same product, from a functional perspective, that is available with the following restrictions: o The product is licensed for use only with SAP Business One data and associated Software Solution Partner data and includes drivers for Microsoft SQL Server, the only supported database for SAP Business One 8.8. o The redistributable.net components are not included in this version. Partners and customers who wish to deploy the runtimes as part of their solutions to other organizations must acquire a full license of SAP Crystal Reports 2008. 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 19
How do I get Crystal Reports 2008? Speak to your partner they can provide you with your copy of Crystal Reports 2008 for SAP Business One If your partner is unable to help with training on Crystal Reports, help is at hand... SAP Business One Customer Portal Business Objects Partners DSCallards Channel www.youtube.com/dscallardsvideos Email: sales@dscallards.com 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 20
Useful Links SAP Business One Customer Portal https://websmp205.sap-ag.de/smb/sbocustomer SAP Community Network Crystal Reports Forum http://forums.sdn.sap.com/category.jspa?categoryid=45 SAP Community Network - Demo script for building a report http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/index?rid=/library/uuid/108b4fa0-d308-2f10-5488-ab5 65b59ce6b YouTube : Crystal Reports in SAP Business One 8.8 www.youtube.com/watch?v=bklttdnpqmm YouTube : Connecting To Your SAP Database in Crystal Reports www.youtube.com/watch?v=fchy-q2o_7o 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 21
SAP Business Objects Site http://www.sap.com/uk/solutions/sapbusinessobjects/index.epx 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 22
Where do we go from here? Training materials available on the SAP Business One Customer Portal: Other sources available: 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 23
Thank You! May 2012