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Crystal Reports

Jacob GroganSlide2

Crystal Reports and Why It’s Useful?

“

Crystal Reports is a popular Windows-based report generation program that allows a user to create reports from a variety of data

sources with

a minimum of written

code.”

(techtarget.com)

Developed

by Seagate Software, Crystal Reports can access data from

databases

and can integrate data from multiple databases within one report

using Open

Database

Connectivity

This means that SAP Crystal Reports can access any data from any application

Examples-Microsoft Access, SQL Server,

ect

… Slide3

What is Crystal Reports?

Crystal Reports is a business intelligence reporting tool offered by

SAP“IT professionals, report authors, and developers have been using SAP Crystal Reports software for almost two decades to create powerful, user friendly reports”It’s Purpose?To allow a user to easily create a report using data from a broad range of database types

Can create simple as well as complex reports

Typically used in small businesses Slide4

Features & Benefits of Crystal reports

Features:

The Intuitive design of the Crystal reports interface allows the user to easily find and manipulate data to create a report This ease of use allows any worker any of the functional areas of the business to run reportsCrystal reports also has a broad range of data sources which include:

Native, ODBC, OLE DB, and JDBC

Connected to OLAP, Web services, XML, enterprise data sources and salesforce.comSlide5

Features & Benefits of Crystal reports…

cont.

Powerful report delivery optionsCrystal Reports allows users to select which their preferred language and format of their reportNew support in Excel exporting

This allows data to be exported into a single excel worksheet

Mobile Support

Also, Crystal reports provides users with Interactive

reports are now available through

mobile

devices.

Crystal Reports is Windows 7 compatibleSlide6

Reporting to the Web

In Crystal Reports you are not limited to only creating reports, reports can be published in many different formats which include but are not limited to Microsoft Word, Excel, E-mail and over the Web.

Web reporting lets other members of your workgroup view and edit a shared report over the internet via web browser.By Crystal Reports supporting user editing over the web, It makes reporting accessible to users virtually anytime. This feature can increase work productivity immensely.Slide7

Crystal Reports basic toolbar Features

Similar to the Microsoft office suite, Crystal

Reports has a toolbar that is very easy to use. Crystal reports has basic formatting such as:Bold, Italic, Underline, and alignment Crystal Reports also has useful data reporting tools such as:

Database expert, text box, filter, group, and sort functionsSlide8

SAP Crystal reports pricing

Crystal Reports costs: $495.00

Upgrade to Crystal Reports costs: $295.00Crystal Reports XI Developer Full Product costs: $595.00SAP Crystal Server Full Product, 5 named user licenses costs: $2,495.00Slide9

Conclusion

Overall, Crystal reports is an inexpensive reporting tool that can be easily integrated into a business because of its compatibility to many applications and intuitive reporting functions.

Crystal Reports can be connected to a wide variety of databases with little effort from the user. Also, because this software is windows compatible it makes Crystal Reports an ideal candidate for business integration.

With mobile support, report editing via web browser, and many publishing formats, Crystal Reports has proven to be a productive tool for businesses and is a great way to make a business more efficient.Slide10

References

http://www.qbssoftware.com/products/SAP_Crystal_Reports/overview/_

prodcrysreptechtarget.comhttp://www.crystalreports.com/http://store.businessobjects.com

SAP Crystal Reports 2013 User Guide