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1. SAP CRYSTAL SOLUTIONS WHATS NEW IN 2011SAP Crystal
Solutions
2. CONTENT 4 Whats New in SAP Crystal 8 Semantic Layer Server
2011 8 Simplified Deployment for Lower 4 Guided Data Exploration
Cost of Ownership 5 Engaging User Experience 8 Software Development
Kit 5 Common Query Panel Across Enhancements All Client Tools 5
Integrate Hierarchical Data into 9 Whats New in SAP Crystal Your
Universe Reports 2011 5 Report Design Optimized for Universe Access
10 Whats New in Dashboards 6 Simplified Data Access and
Visualizations 6 Smart Guidelines 10 Find Out More 6 Multilingual
Support 7 OLAP and Relational Data Access 7 Usage Recommendations
and Road Map 7 Viewing FeaturesOverviewSAP Crystal solutions offer
an open, self-serve approach to entry-level businessintelligence
that enables business users to explore, view, report, visualize,
andmanage actionable information in a secure environment.SAP
Crystal solutions include SAP Crystal Server software, designed for
dataexploration, report viewing, dashboard viewing, management, and
delivery;the SAP Crystal Reports family of offerings, designed for
presentation-qualityreporting; SAP Crystal Interactive Analysis
software, for performing ad hoc queryand analysis; SAP Crystal
Dashboard Design software, for building interactivedepartmental
dashboards; and SAP Crystal Presentation Design software,
forcreating interactive data presentations from spreadsheets.
3. WHATS NEW IN SAP CRYSTAL SERVER 2011GET FAST, SELF-SERVE
ANSWERS TO BUSINESSQUESTIONSSAP Crystal Server software has a
newname and a new approach to the man-agement and sharing of your
businessinformation. SAP Crystal Server 2011is the next generation
of SAP CrystalReports Server 2008 and it is nowfaster, easier to
use, and more compre-hensive than ever before.Heres a snapshot of
key new featuresand benefits in SAP Crystal Server: Self-serve
access to relevant infor- mation. Get immediate answers to your
business questions with the newly included SAP BusinessObjects
Explorer software, which combines simple keyword searches with
intui- tive data exploration functionality. Google-style search.
Find the most relevant business information instantly, with search
results automatically ranked Figure 1: Intuitive Data Exploration,
Powered by SAP BusinessObjects Explorer to help narrow the areas of
interest. Guided data exploration. Get fact- Multilingual reports
and dashboards. across your organization can search based answers
to spontaneous ques- One report or dashboard can support and
explore business data intuitively, tions without needing to rely on
IT for multiple languages and manage without help from IT, so they
can find assistance. translated text. immediate answers to their
business Updated user interface with unified Simplified deployment.
The software questions. look and feel. Common user interface
includes new 64-bit server support, elements make it easier to
transition system diagnosis monitoring, and life- As shown in
Figure 1, with SAP between tools. cycle management to help promote
BusinessObjects Explorer, you can Simplified access to data. The
uni- objects between servers. search, filter, and reorder values
with- verse component (semantic layer) of out needing to know the
underlying SAP BusinessObjects software is Guided Data Exploration
databases or data models. Then, now included in SAP Crystal Server
you can share your insights simply to deliver faster, easier data
access SAP Crystal Server 2011 includes SAP by exporting,
bookmarking, or sending and a single, simplified view of your
BusinessObjects Explorer software for e-mail. business data. guided
data exploration.* Now, people* Support for SAP BusinessObjects
Explorer is only available with named user licenses of SAP Crystal
Server.4
4. Engaging User ExperienceThe user interface for SAP
CrystalServer software has been redesignedfor a clean, unified look
and feel. Wedesigned the user interface so that youcan more easily
transition between SAPCrystal Server and SAP
BusinessObjectsExplorer, leveraging the common userinterface
elements in both tools. SeeFigure 2.Common Query Panel AcrossAll
Client ToolsA common query panel makes it easierto access data
through the universesemantic layer, whether youre design- Figure 2:
Redesigned User Interface That Simplifies Switching Between
Applicationsing a report, designing a dashboard,or exploring data.
Report Design Optimized for The user interface for SAPIntegrate
Hierarchical Data into Universe AccessYour Universe Crystal Server
software SAP Crystal Server software includes has been redesigned
forUnlike other solutions that require sep- a new report design
tool that is opti-arate tools to access online analytical mized for
use with universes. This tool a clean, unified look andprocessing
(OLAP) and relational data, is included with SAP Crystal Serverthe
universe component enables access at no additional charge. However,
for feel. We designed the userto both data sources, without
flattening installation and activation, the tool re- interface so
that you canthe OLAP hierarchy and losing its struc- quires an SAP
Crystal Reports 2011ture. Relational data can also be pre- key
code. more easily transition be-sented hierarchically. tween SAP
Crystal Server and SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, leveraging the
common user interface elements in both tools. 5
5. Simplified Data Access Figure 3: Query Panel in SAP Crystal
ServerSAP Crystal Server simplifies data ac-cess by leveraging
universes built withthe new report design tool. You canuse the
query panel to build queriesagainst the universe (see Figure
3).Smart GuidelinesThe new report design tool in SAPCrystal Server
includes UI innovationssuch as smart guidelines. These savetime by
allowing columns to be movedand resized as one element, while
auto-matically adjusting adjacent columns(see Figure
4).Multilingual Support Figure 4: Time-Saving UI Innovations inThe
report design tool in SAP Crystal SAP Crystal ServerServer provides
new translation man- Smart Guidelinesager support. A single report
can sup-port multiple languages and integratewith the tool for
managing translatedtext.6
6. OLAP and Relational Data AccessWith the new report design
tool inSAP Crystal Server, you can accessdata from both OLAP and
relationaldata sources (see Figure 5).Usage Recommendations andRoad
MapBoth SAP Crystal Reports 2011 soft-ware and the new report
design toolcan be used with SAP Crystal Server2011 software. SAP
Crystal Server2011 includes dual runtime enginesso that each type
of report can coexistside-by-side.If you need to create and modify
reportsbased on the universe semantic layer,we recommend you use
the reportdesign tool in SAP Crystal Server.A license of SAP
Crystal Reports 2011 Figure 5: Support for OLAP and Relational Data
Sourcesis required to activate this tool. If youneed to create and
modify reports that format (RPTR) and the new Microsoft SAP Crystal
Server supportsrequire access to Open Database Con- Excel 2007
spreadsheet format (XLSX)nectivity (ODBC) or other direct data
export feature. This feature lets you all new features within
SAPsources, we recommend you use SAP export large amounts of data
to a single Crystal Reports 2011, includ-Crystal Reports 2011. SAP
plans to Microsoft Excel worksheet withoutadd direct-to-data access
to the report spanning multiple worksheets. ing the new RPTR and
thedesign tool in a future release. new XLSX export feature.Viewing
Features This feature lets you export large amounts of data to aSAP
Crystal Server supports all newfeatures within SAP Crystal Reports
single Microsoft Excel work-2011, including the new read-only
report sheet without spanning multiple worksheets. 7
7. Semantic LayerYou can combine both online
analyticalprocessing (OLAP) and relational datasources into a
single, unified semanticlayer. This allows you to present
rela-tional data in a hierarchical view, withaccess to hierarchical
OLAP data aswell. The new information design tool,shown in Figure
6, enables you to authoruniverses that bring together multipledata
sources, as well as access bothhierarchical and relational data in
thesame universe.Universes can be consumed in allsupported clients
including the reportdesign tool in SAP Crystal Server; Figure 6:
Joining Multiple Data Sources Across a Universe with the
Information Design ToolSAP BusinessObjects Explorer soft-ware; SAP
BusinessObjects Live control for smoother team develop- Software
Development KitOffice software; and the SAP Crystal ment. SAP
Crystal Server 2011 also EnhancementsDashboard Design solution,
depart- offers an easier upgrade with a newmental edition. upgrade
tool that combines the import The software development kit (SDK)
wizard and database migration tools; for SAP Crystal Server has
been en-SAP Crystal Server 2011 also sup- direct upgrade from
Crystal Reports hanced in the following areas: alerting,ports
existing business views. Server XI R2 SP2 or later, and from data
security, role-based authentication, Crystal Reports Server 2008;
and a auditing, and business intelligence archiveSimplified
Deployment for Lower choice of a complete or incremental resource
(BIAR) files.Cost of Ownership upgrade.SAP Crystal Server includes
new64-bit server support and lifecyclemanagement functionality to
help SAP Crystal solutions offer an open, self-serveyou synchronize
development, test,and production servers. New compre- approach to
entry-level business intelligence thathensive system diagnosis and
monitor- enables business users to explore, view, report,ing allow
you to capture runtime andhistorical metrics of SAP Crystal Server
visualize, and manage actionable information in aservices and
applications for reporting secure environment.and notification. A
new auditing dash-board enables central administration,and
versioning controls keep configura-tion and other key files under
revision8
8. WHATS NEW IN SAP CRYSTAL REPORTS 2011EXTENDED EXPORT AND
PLATFORM SUPPORTThe SAP Crystal Reports family ofofferings enables
rich formatting ofbroad, transactional-level data. Thisallows users
to address virtually anyinformation consumption requirement from
simple columnar or table reportlayouts to specialized
governmentforms.Heres a snapshot of the key new fea-tures in SAP
Crystal Reports: Expanded support for Microsoft Excel. XLSX export
takes full advan- tage of the new Microsoft Excel file format. It
allows more data to be exported to a single worksheet, with- out
spanning multiple worksheets. Read-only reports. The new RPTR
format provides a read-only RPT export option, giving you the
confi- dence that end users wont be able to modify reports. Reports
in RPTR The SAP Crystal Reports family of offerings enables rich
format cannot be opened by any SAP formatting of broad,
transactional-level data. This allows Crystal Reports design tool.
This read-only feature is particularly valu- users to address
virtually any information consumption able for independent software
ven- requirement from simple columnar or table report layouts dors
wishing to secure reports that will be redistributed in
applications. to specialized government forms. Read-only report
viewing. Reports in the read-only RPTR format can be viewed in the
runtime engines in SAP Crystal Reports, version for Visual Studio
2010, and in the latest versions of SAP Crystal Server and SAP
Crystal Reports viewer. Microsoft Windows 7 compatible. SAP Crystal
Reports 2011 is certi- fied as compatible with Microsoft Windows 7.
Languages. We now support 22 lan- guages, including Danish,
Hungarian, Slovakian, and Turkish. 9
9. WHATS NEW IN DASHBOARDS ANDVISUALIZATIONSENHANCED
MULTILINGUAL SUPPORT ANDDATA ACCESSSAP Crystal solutions include
dashboardand visualization software formerlyknown as the Xcelsius
family of prod-ucts that provides consolidated viewsof key metrics,
so you can answer yourbusiness questions more easily. Thelatest
version of SAP Crystal DashboardDesign software enables business
usersof different skill levels to quickly trans-form complex data
into sophisticateddashboards and visualizations. Addition-ally, the
latest version of SAP CrystalPresentation Design software
empowersyour business users to turn MicrosoftExcel data into
professional-lookingpresentations through an intuitive
point-and-click interface.Heres a snapshot of the key new fea-tures
in the latest versions of SAPCrystal Dashboard Design and
SAPCrystal Presentation Design software: SAP Crystal Dashboard
Design software enables Translation manager support. A single
report can support multiple languages, business users of different
skill levels to quickly trans- and it can integrate with the
translation form complex data into sophisticated dashboards and
manager tool to manage translated text. visualizations. SAP Crystal
Presentation Design soft- Regional date formatting. There is ware
empowers your business users to turn Microsoft improved regional
date formatting functionality. Date, time, and number Excel data
into professional-looking presentations formats adjust to match the
end users through an intuitive point-and-click interface. preferred
viewing locales. Platform support. The software sup- ports
Microsoft Office 2010 (32-bit). ues can be mapped directly to
charts Find Out More Languages. We now support 22 and selectors,
and theres no need languages, including Thai, Czech, to store data
in an intermediate To learn more about SAP Crystal solu- Hungarian,
Slovakian, and Turkish. spreadsheet.* tions, please visit us on the
Web at Direct binding to data when using a Integration with
lifecycle manage- www.sap.com/sapcrystal. universe query. The new
query panel ment tools. When used with SAP enables direct data
access through Crystal Server 2011, you benefit a universe when
used with SAP from integration with the lifecycle Crystal Server
2011; no additional management tools; dedicated cach- Web services
are required. Data val- ing and processing servers help to ensure
fast data access.** This feature is available in SAP Crystal
Dashboard Design only.10
10. 11
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