Advantages of using SAP Crystal Reports ?

Crystal Reports is a Business Intelligence application, currently marketed to small businesses by SAP SE. It is used to design and generate reports from a wide range of data sources. SAP Crystal Reports application provides the facility for generating and designing the reports that customers needs. Its graphical interface provides the features for formatting the report and selecting the data from wide range of sources. User can easily select the data sources and can generate the reports in his desired language. It will be helpful for taking the strategic decisions for an organization from the pixel perfect day to day reports.

Advantages of using SAP Crystal Reports:

1. Easy customization
2. Report generating in our preferred language
3. Graphical interface to format the report
4. Graphical interface to select the data sources
5. support Wide variety data sources like Excel from Oracle
6. easy to use
7. Don’t need that much technical expertisation to use
8. Can generate any type of crystal clear reports
9. Helping the organizations in taking decisions based on the generated reports

Functionality:

1.      Report publishing and scheduling.

2.      Save reports direct to Business Objects Enterprise.    

3.      HTML Preview Pane.     

4.      Business Views and Universe support.        

5.       Hyper linking Wizard. 

6.       Repository Explorer.

Features:

1.  The User Interface has been completely re-designed on top of a Java framework with emphasis placed on usability.
2.  Harmonization across SAP Business Objects clients to reduce time to value.
3.  Improved Semantic Layer support such that Crystal Reports is not hindered by consuming data from the Semantic Layer.
4. Improved SAP BW support such that Crystal Reports can consume both basic and advanced functionality offered by Info Cubes and Info Queries
5. Focus on adding new multi-lingual support for Crystal Reports metadata.
6. New alerting mechanism introduced at the platform level for Crystal Reports content.
7. New 64-bit native processing servers.
8. Interoperability between Crystal Reports and the new SAP Business Objects OLAP Client.
9. Support for SAP Standards.