SAP Crystal Reporting
SAP Crystal Reports
SAP Crystal Reports was an early reporting software created in the 1980s. It was subsequently acquired by BusinessObjects and eventually joined the SAP portfolio when SAP acquired BusinessObjects. SAP has continued to develop the product and has released the latest version SAP Crystal Reports 2020.
SAP Crystal Reports
SAP Crystal Reports was an early reporting software created in the 1980s. It was subsequently acquired by BusinessObjects and eventually joined the SAP portfolio when SAP acquired BusinessObjects. SAP has continued to develop the product and has released the latest version SAP Crystal Reports 2020.
SAP Crystal Reports helps business users analyze data by creating richly formatted, multi-page reports from virtually any data source, delivered in more than a dozen formats. Such formats can be used to generate customer or partner facing assets such as custom invoices, billing statements, letters, sales and operations reports, and promotion campaigns with drag-and-drop interfaces.
While SAP Crystal Reports is marketed to small and medium-sized businesses, it can be an easy reporting tool for enterprises too.
SAP Crystal Reports Benefits
SAP Crystal Reports makes it easy for business users to create reports easily while also ensuring security and access rights. Some of the advantages it provides are:
- Ability to easily analyze and report on business data by creating intuitive reports and dashboards with drag-and-drop simplicity
- Security settings for reporting environments by defining user rights to access, view, refresh, export, or print reports
- Insights to understand business and share the facts to provide ready-to-consume information, as reports and dashboards, to colleagues, suppliers, partners, and customers.
SAP Crystal Reports files are saved with extension “.rpt”
Reporting and analytics are fields where many vendors are coming up with innovations such as pre-built reports, automation, and intuitive user interfaces. Apart from SAP BusinessObjects, Qlik, Pyramid Analytics, and apexanalyticsalso provide rich reporting and analytics capabilities.
While such tools are a boon to business users, there is increasing recognition that what comes out of data depends on data quality. Hence, many SAP companies are embarking on data management projects ranging from master data governance, intelligent data cleansing, enabling data virtualization to analyze data rather than making static copies, etc. This also becomes critical when the security, access control, and compliance requirements come into play.
SAP Crystal Reports is a useful tool in the reporting portfolio for low value reports. However, the demands for analytics in today’s complex data volumes may be better met with more sophisticated solutions.
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Why Your Analysis of Working Capital Today Might Be Incorrect and What You Can Do About It
Learn two common calculation methods that are available for analyzing key aspects of working capital. You should then be able to choose which of the calculation methods most suits your analysis and configure SAP Working Capital Analytics to use that method to investigate the drivers of your working capital. Key Concept SAP Working Capital Analytics...…
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Leveraging Customer Attributes to Manage Work
D. Russell Sloan shows how to use customer attributes to add metadata to key project objects. This enables tracking and management of project work such as identifying teams that are responsible for or use transaction, configuration, and development objects. Key Concept The customer attributes feature requires a Solution Manager 7.0 Support Package 1 or higher...…
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Create Statistics Lists in SAP Query for a Summarized Analysis of Your HR Data
Follow these steps to create a statistics list using SAP Query in SAP HR. You can use a statistics list to summarize data and create totals and averages. Key Concept You can create three types of reports with the SAP Query tool: basic lists, statistics lists, and ranked lists. The most common type of SAP...…
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Repetitive Cost Accounting in a Production and Process Order Environment
Learn how to configure and use product cost collectors (repetitive) to capture and control production and process order costs. Key Concept A hybrid order type for production moves the cost object from the production or process order to a product cost collector. This enables the use of orders for control of production and the aggregate...…
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Four Steps to Create an Effective COE
To get the most value for their investment, many companies create a center of excellence (COE) to oversee SAP projects and ensure their lasting success. David Jantzen and Dan Haynes of Deloitte discuss how to build a COE that can support your SAP project long after go-live. An SAP center of excellence (COE) is an...…
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Sarbanes–Oxley: Seven Steps to Ensure Your Internal Controls Cover Your Risk
As the deadlines approach, does your SAP financials team have a plan in place for compliance with the Sarbanes–Oxley Act (SOA) of 2002? No? That’s not unusual, as many companies are struggling to learn what system and process changes the Act will require. But where do you begin this learning process? The author provides a...…
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Tips and Best Practices for Transitioning from SAP BW 7.0 to SAP BW 7.4 on SAP HANA
Learn how to prioritize, implement, and deliver selected SAP BW 7.4 on SAP HANA capabilities to maximize its benefits to your organization. Key Concept Features such as Eclipse-based querying and design capabilities, SAP HANA Analysis Process (HAP), and Open Operational DataStore (ODS) views are available in SAP BW 7.4 on SAP HANA (Support Package Stack...…
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Case Study of a Project to Integrate Concur and an SAP System
Learn how to integrate Concur’s travel management solution, which is now a part of SAP, with your SAP system. See how to replace the conventional travel management (claim management) solution with Concur and the best practices to follow during the implementation. Key Concept Concur is a travel and expense management solution you can integrate with...…
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Revealing a New Type of Profitability Analysis (CO-PA): Combined CO-PA
Learn how to activate and configure combined Profitability Analysis (CO-PA). Key Concept Combined Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) is a new form of CO-PA that uses value fields that can be mapped back to general ledger (G/L) accounts. SAP is introducing a new form of Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), combined CO-PA. Combined CO-PA reveals a lot of new...…
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How to Automate Generation of External SAP HANA Views to Save Time and Costs
Get a detailed guide (including SAP HANA ABAP code snippets) for speeding up your SAP HANA calculation views based on a DataStore object (DSO) by using external SAP HANA views based on classic DSOs. Instead of manually generating the external SAP HANA DSO views via the Administrator Workbench, the program helps you to select groups...…
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