SAP Crystal Solutions · 2012-03-13 · SAP Crystal Solutions 2011 Peter De Bie,...

SAP Crystal Solutions 2011

Peter De Bie, [email protected]

March 2012

© 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 2

Despite Massive IT Investment…


The Issue Information Is Not Reaching Business Users in the Right Amount

Source: BusinessWeek Research Services Base; 675 US and European business executives and manager

Always Just

Right

Amount

21%

Usually

Too

Much

Usually

Too

Little

79%


The Consequence: Workers Lose Productivity from Inadequate Information Access

Source: Economist, “Enterprise Knowledge Workers Study; November 2007

54% Lose Productivity

Other effects:

47% Make Flawed Decisions

45% Lose Competitive Agility


Self Service BI – for small to medium sized companies

• Knowledge workers spend an inordinate amount of the workday

looking for and not actually using the information.

• By making BI applications more intuitive and requiring little or no

training, BI can penetrate a much broader base of knowledge workers

in an enterprise.

“Self-Service: An Essential Capability Of BI Forrester”, Research,

Inc., April, 2011


SAP Crystal Solutions A complete entry-level BI solution for small organizations and departments

Affordable, entry-level business intelligence

Open, flexible, and grows with your needs

Quick time to value

Solutions from the market leader, with the size, price, and simplicity you need

#1 in combined BI, EPM, Analytic Applications*

16%

12%

9%

16%

23%

* Based on 2010 Worldwide Revenue form Market Share Analysis: Business Intelligence, Analytics and Performance Management, Worldwide, 2010. - Gartner Inc. April 2011


Data exploration

Dashboard viewing

Report viewing

Security

Scheduling

Office and SharePoint

Desktop

Introducing: SAP® Crystal solutions essential BI package

Entry-Level BI

SAP Crystal Server

Make better business decisions with SAP® Crystal solutions

A complete, entry-level business intelligence solution that puts the

power of information into business users hands.


Introducing: SAP® Crystal solutions essential BI package

Bundle:

• A single integrated pack of BI essentials, with self-serve information

access for the business

•straight-forward, user-friendly

•affordable solution

•all the essential BI tools that users want in one offering

•No additional maintenance cost and complexity of multiple solution

purchases from multiple vendors.

•business intelligence (BI) essentials in one integrated, easy-to-manage,

affordable solution - self-service BI built for SMEs.


SAP® Crystal solutions essential BI package

•Full-spectrum BI

•operational reporting

•interactive dashboards

•data exploration

•Common user interface and managed environment

•easy, self-service information access & content authoring

•Secure information sharing through one central repository

•flexible deployment options

•rich system monitoring and security

•reduced end-user overhead for improved productivity


Business User Need

How can I create engaging models out of my spreadsheets?

I need to combine multiple data sources

into a single dashboard

I need an attractive visualization of this

data, but IT is too busy to help

How can I combine multiple metrics into a single overview of the

business?

I need to show the impact of different assumptions in my

presentation.


Instead of presenting mind numbing spreadsheets or

reports….


SAP Crystal Dashboard Design

Benefits

Live Dashboards!

Secure access to live company data, via Universe,

Web Services, XML, Reporting Services, Adobe

LiveCycle Services

Extend the reach of your data

Export to the Web, SAP Crystal Server, Microsoft

PPT, Adobe PDF, and Adobe AIR.

Rich library of predefined visual components

Extend component functionality with Flex SDk

SAP Crystal Server


This is a good report, but how do I securely share it with my team?

How do we meet growing demand for information with our

flat budget and staff?

I have a summary dashboard, but how do

I see the details?

I need to know this technology will be

part of our BI roadmap

Business User and IT Needs

How can I empower end users to answer their own questions?


Introducing SAP Crystal Server Entry level business intelligence for small companies and departments

Benefits

Fully secure, central location for all reports

and dashboards

End user ad-hoc report creation and data

exploration without IT support

Run reports on a recurring schedule

Integrate with AD & LDAP user directories, or

out of the box authentication system

Integrates with Office, Sharepoint and Java

application servers

New monitoring, lifecycle management and

auditing

Scales from 5 to 350 users logged on to

system at any one time


Report Bursting – One schedule but each

recipient receives only their data

Multiple Reports - One job for multiple reports

(can be merged in to one PDF)

Delivery Rules – Only runs if certain conditions

are met, per user including values

PDF & ZIP – Export to PDF with Adobe security

or ZIP

External & Dynamic Recipients – Can use a flat

or dynamic list of email addresses

Email Body – Embed reports content within

emails

Feature highlights

SAP Crystal Server feature:

Data Driven Publishing


Refresh Crystal Reports data

in an Office document with Live

Office plugin

Avoid document updating

Improve BI adoption by

allowing users to access

trusted data in a tool they

regularly use

Feature highlights


Live Office

What’s new?

SAP Crystal Server 2011 New Semantic Layer across all Client Tools

“The Universe”


The “Universe”

Single Semantic Layer for all client

tools

Translate database terms to user

terms

Decreased reliance on IT

Information you want

when you need it

“What is it?” “How does this

help me?”


User Autonomy

Easy business terms

Universe hides

complexity of DB

Choose what

information is exposed to

users

Multiple Data Sources in

one Universe

select *

from movement_snapshot where

snapshot_time = '2008-05-01

00:00:00' and item_id in ((select

item_id from movement_snapshot

where snapshot_time = '2008-05-01

00:00:00' ) except (select item_id

from item_transaction where

move_at > '2008-05-01 00:00:00'

and move_at <= '2008-06-01

00:00:00' ) )

After

– With Universe

Cryptic field & table

names

SQL and table linking

knowledge required

DB security concerns


Common Semantic Layer Multi-Source Support


Common Semantic Layer Reduced learning curve and effort to build reports

Single, trusted version of the truth

Everyone is using the same basis for

their numbers

Break data silos, combine data from

heterogeneous sources within one report

Lower TCO for integration projects (no

complex ETL to put in place)

May suspend the need for a

consolidated data warehouse

The Universe enables... Ad-hoc Reporting

Data Exploration

Dashboard creation for business users


SAP Crystal Reports version for enterprise The next generation of Crystal Reports included with SAP Crystal Server

Benefits

Universe Integration – Ad-hoc

reporting

Easier to connect the report to both

relational and OLAP data

Faster to layout reports

End users can save time consuming

reports with alert subscriptions


Easy Access through Universe

Adding

Visualizations

Benefits

No IT-knowledge required

Intuitive interface and self-service BI

Compelling Visualizations

Click and Drag

and Drop

Creation of

Report

Ease of Ad Hoc Reporting

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Creation of

Report



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Adding

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and Drop

Creation of

Report


Benefits




Adding

Visualizations

Benefits




Click and Drag

and Drop

Creation of

Report


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SAP Crystal Reports for enterprise Create Stunning Documents faster than ever before

Easy-to-use, new design environment for novice and professional designers

Create simple reports to represent complex data within a few minutes

Streamlined experience across the suite

Tabbed Tool

Bar

WYSIWYG

Point and Click

Easy-to-use

Navigation Panel


SAP Crystal Explorer A world of Search Against BI…

1.Use familiar key-word search to find business information

2.Searches directly on pre-indexed data

3.Searches across all data sources


SAP Crystal Explorer Explore and find answers

Intuitively explore on data

• No data model or data knowledge required

• Easy to search, filter, and order the values

Visual Analysis

• Most relevant facets, charts automatically

proposed

• Rewarding interaction, thanks to fast

response times and direct visual feedback

Share insights with others

• Export

• Bookmark

• Send link by email

SAP Crystal Explorer

DEMO


SAP Crystal Dashboard Design 2011: The Next Generation of Xcelsius

Simplify authoring of dashboards

Separation of roles between data experts and

dashboard authors

Query panel in Dashboards Designer

Direct binding of Universe objects to

visualizations

Prompt selector to leverage prompt defined in

Universe

Next Generation Semantic Layer

Consistent access to data between clients and

across sources

One abstraction layer for all data sources

Query Browser Panel in

Dashboards Designer

SAP Crystal Server Other stand-out features


web-based tool that enables you to move

business intelligence (BI) resources from one

repository to another

manages dependencies of the resources

Test a promotion and roll back the

promoted resources at the destination system

if required

management of different versions of the

same BI resource

Scheduling - specify a time or a recurring

schedule for job promotion

Feature highlights


Lifecycle Management


Translation Manager allows you to:

Store in a single document all translatable Crystal Server content in several different languages.

Enable end users to display content and strings in Reports, Dashboards and Explorer according to their preferred language.

Multilingual Support: Translation Manager


Multi-lingual Reporting Reduce effort and number of reports for multilingual deployments

Crystal Reports, Dashboards, Universes

• Text Objects

• Prompts

• Tooltips

• Anything with text…

SAP Crystal Server supported features

• Translation Manager

• Translate Locally or via Export/Import

using

XLFF

• Schedulable Translation

Create Once, schedule and publish

reports in multiple languages

Frenc

h

German

English

Thank You!

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