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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Do Some Authorization Detective Work with the User Information System
Learn how to create, implement, and maintain a solid authorizations concept using transaction SUIM. Key Concept You can use transaction SUIM (user information system) to verify different authorizations-related functionalities. It can verify authorizations assigned to a specific user or multiple users. SUIM can also verify contents of roles and compare authorizations of two user IDs...…
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Scrum’s the Word: How Endeca Mastered an SAP Implementation in Just 22 Weeks
ManagementThe project team responsible for implementing a new SAP ERP system at Endeca Technologies knew what it was getting into. Several team members had worked with SAP systems at prior jobs, and knew that the pain associated with a badly executed implementation could be severe. By using a novel approach to project management and ongoing...…
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Managing Your Employee Dates
Learn how to use infotype 41 (Date Specifications) and infotype 19 (Monitoring of Dates) to manage all the dates for employees stored in your R/3 HR/Payroll system. The employees stored in your R/3 HR/Payroll system have dates and lots of them. They have hire dates, term dates, load dates, next review dates, last review dates,...…
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4 Tips on How to Optimize the Bad Debt Process
Learn how to adopt the standard bad debt process in SAP ERP Financials to ensure better integration to original items, better reporting, and more accurate provisioning as per various regulatory needs. Key Concept The bad debt process is a standard SAP functionality that allows you to do provisioning on the customer overdue items that are...…
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Use Solution Manager Attributes to Help Manage Project Work
Manager IBM’s D. Russell Sloan walks you through how custom attributes can help you better organize, plan, manage, and monitor work activities during a project. Key Concept Document attributes (e.g., person responsible, document status) provide a way to describe not only the content and ownership of documents, but also help you manage the design, development,...…
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Manage Outsourced Manufacturing with New Features in 6.0 Enhancement Package 4
If you use contractors for some of your manufacturing operations, new functionality for managing them is designed to save you some time. See how to configure SAP Outsourced Manufacturing, what master data needs to be maintained, and the functional steps required to implement six new features. Key Concept Outsourced Manufacturing is a new SAP capability...…
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How to Configure Employees Holding Multiple Positions
Learn how to configure the SAP system for employees holding multiple positions in an organization, with each position reporting to different supervisors and with different cost centers for each position. See how to define relationship A008 to show the right organization structure. Follow the configuration steps involved in completing this in SAP ERP HCM, which...…
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Tips on Spreading Depreciation with the Smoothing Indicator
Kees van Westerop alerts you to some unexpected effects when you use the smoothing indicator, which spreads depreciation costs over the current year. Key Concept Asset accounting in an SAP system offers several ways to control the depreciation of fixed assets. It enables the simultaneous posting of asset depreciations as well as the simultaneous reporting...…
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Identify and Track Slow-Moving Items in BW
Many companies use SAP Business Information Warehouse (BW) as the reporting tool for their SAP landscape. It does a great job reporting on transactional data like that associated with products that have posted transactional data, such as sales orders. Using MultiProviders, there are also ways to track records without transactional data. Key Concept Introduced in...…
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Enhance the Compliance Process and Regulatory Reporting in Your Organization with Disclosure Survey
Kehinde Eseyin shows how implementing SAP Process Control 10.1’s disclosure survey in your business environment enhances transparency, documentation, and adherence to disclosure requirements. Key Concept Disclosure survey is a new type of survey in SAP Process Control 10.1 that is used to perform assessments at different entity levels – organization, control, and subprocess. The need...…
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