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Product Information

SAP Crystal Reports and SAP Crystal Reports Server improve your organisation's performance by accessing your data and transforming it into actionable information with interactive reports.

• Crystal Reports - powerful desktop based reporting solution
• Crystal Reports Runtime Server License - enables royalty-free embedding of the Crystal Reports engine into a commercial application

Please note: SAP Crystal Reports 2011 is the latest version, however some previous versions are still available for purchase, please contact us for a quote.

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New Features

What's new in SAP Crystal Reports 2011

SAP Crystal Reports 2011 continues to build on the powerful reporting features and success of Crystal Reports 2008 while also providing new features of specific interest to standalone report designers and application developers.

Read-only format

• Protect the investments made in the design of your reports by leveraging the new read-only report format. This is useful for standalone report designers and application developers who want to distribute their reports without worrying about them being modified after distribution.
• Export your reports to the read-only report format (RPTR) from SAP Crystal Reports 2011.
• The reports are no longer able to be opened in the Crystal Reports designer and are only accessible from the viewer.

Export to Excel workbook format

• Export your reports to the new Microsoft Open XML Excel format which allows for smaller overall Excel files via the new Office compression technology.
• Leverage the new XSLX format to export up to 1 million rows from a Crystal Report.
• Export to a Microsoft Excel (XLSX) workbook from a Crystal Report through the designer or the viewer.

Build custom applications using Crystal Reports for Visual Studio

• The Crystal Reports integration with Visual Studio has now been made a separate product from the core Crystal Reports product. As such, it is available as a separate download which is installed on top of Visual Studio. This allows SAP to better serve the needs of the Visual Studio developer market and ensures that we have the flexibility to deliver the features that developers find valuable.

Windows 7 compatible

• Windows 7 compatible - SAP Crystal Reports software 2011 is certified compatible with Microsoft Windows 7.

Features

SAP Crystal Dashboard Design integration - Visualise the potential outcome of your business decisions with what-if scenario models built in your report file. Import SAP Crystal Dashboard Design-generated SWF files into your report and benefit from improved design-time integration. IT and developers will design fewer reports to support the decision making process. Please note: SAP Crystal Dashboard Design tool is not included in SAP Crystal Reports.

Adobe Flex integration - Execute business decisions from within the report file. Integrate your reports with operational workflows by embedding Adobe Flex (SWF) applications into your reports. Using Adobe Flex Builder you can create any business user UI to access report data and integrate with external Web services. Data in your report can be passed to the Flex application via Flashvars, making it easy to create a flexible UI even when you don't have access to your data via Web services. The Flex applications enable you to perform tasks such as database write-back – invoking operational workflows directly within SAP Crystal Reports. IT and developers benefit from instant, coding-free integration of SAP Crystal Reports with your business processes. Please note: Adobe Flex Builder is not included in SAP Crystal Reports.

Parameter panel - The report designer and the .NET Winform and .NET Webform viewers have a parameter panel that allows you to set parameter values without refreshing data. The parameters are displayed directly on the panel, so you can easily see them, make changes, and have new values applied directly to the saved data.

Interactive report viewing - Users can answer more business questions with fewer -and more flexible – reports, significantly reducing dependency on developer and IT support. On-report sorting, filtering, and report reformatting with the SAP Crystal Reports viewers allow users to explore information interactively without re-querying the database. New optional parameters provide for complex user-driven filtering scenarios.

Flash integration - Create stunning visualisations by adding dynamic charts, graphics and even video files to your reports. A wide variety of flexible data presentation options are available through Flash. Flash (SWF) files can be integrated into your report and report data can be shared with SWF via Flashvars for compelling, interactive, and information-rich reports. Plus, the SWF files can quickly be embedded in the report or linked via a Web site, saving IT and development time.

Powerful crosstabs - Add your own custom calculated rows and columns in a crosstab. Reference any cell in the crosstab within these calculated rows and columns to provide additional flexibility. This feature is ideal for financial statements where you want to combine the tabular design of a crosstab with the flexibility of custom formulas.

Flexible pagination - Facilitate better online report viewing to your end users. Report designers can customise page size and easily control page breaking after N records/groups. A single report can combine portrait- and landscape-oriented pages and the white space at the end of groups can be removed by compressing the page footers. So your users can benefit from easier-to-read reports.

SAP Crystal Dashboard Design, Adobe Flex, and Adobe Flash integration - SAP Crystal Reports developers can produce powerful mashups pulling data from various sources. Your developers can easily integrate components designed in Flash and Flex without any coding, and significantly expand the scope of their application deployment. Please note: Access to commercial third party Flash components like ESRI ArcWeb Services as shown in the demonstration is not included in SAP Crystal Reports.

Enhanced Web services data driver - Expand your access to data over the Web. The new data driver offers additional Web access to Web services by providing support for RPC encoding of SOAP messages, SSL-secured Web servers, as well as a working compatibility with the WS-Security standard. It adapts to custom logon requirements such as e-mail addresses or user/password. Developers can combine the flexibility of XML and Web services with report formatting and visualisation to deliver reports linking report data to sophisticated interactive data mashups such as integration with third-party mapping systems.

Built-in barcode support - Save design time and reduce your cost. Generate barcodes with only a few clicks of the mouse by using the new 'turn to barcode' function in the context menu. Easily convert fields to Code39 barcodes without any coding or extra steps. And benefit from additional barcode fonts available from third-party vendors.

Enhanced designer features - Report designer will be more productive with features like global formula search, duplicate formula, duplicate running total, auto complete field names, and the 'find in field explorer' feature.

Multilingual reporting - Choose the working language you prefer by simply selecting the language packs you wish to use during your SAP Crystal Reports installation. Then switch the report designer UI to use any of the installed language packs. The report content locale can also be explicitly set for each report file. This setting controls sorting, grouping, and formatting that matches the local language customs and conventions.

Hyperlinking wizard - Report designers can save time by automatically creating the SAP Crystal Reports formula required to invoke an SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise 'opendocument' hyperlink.

Integrated salesforce.com driver - The salesforce.com driver included with SAP Crystal Reports allows for easy access to complete customer data – turning it into actionable business information. Reports that use a salesforce.com driver will refresh when deployed to crystalreports.com.

Improved XML exporting - Render reports in almost any format and enjoy faster and easier integration with your industry-specific business processes – without the need for custom coding. The XSLT transformations are embedded in the report file and will be triggered by users from within the viewer when exporting to XML. This provides a powerful, flexible hook for transforming SAP Crystal Reports data and integrating it into other applications.

System Req.

• Operating systems: Microsoft Windows 7, Windows Vista SP2, Windows XP SP3, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008 SP2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2, Windows Server 2003 SP2
• Hardware: Intel Pentium III or equivalent processor, 256 MB RAM, 512 MB recommended
• Disk space: 2 GB available hard drive space for English only, 4 GB for all languages
• Data sources: Supports over 40 data sources including ODBC, JDBC, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel, Oracle database, IBM DB2, Teradata, Porgress OpenEdge, Pervasive, PostgreSQL, salesforce.com and more.