Understanding Crystal Reports

Crystal Reports is a SAP Business Objects BI(business intelligence) application used to design and generate reports from a wide range of data sources. Several other applications, including Microsoft Visual Studio, at one time bundled an OEM version of Crystal Reports as a general purpose reporting tool. Crystal Reports is a popular report writer, and was especially so when Microsoft bundled it with Visual Studio versions 2003 through 2008. Microsoft discontinued this practice and later released their own competitive reporting tool, SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2010 is still available as add-on software.

SAP CRYSTAL SOLUTIONS

SIMPLE, AFFORDABLE, AND OPEN BI TOOLS FOR EVERYDAY USE

	StrateGis Wins More Business with SAP Crystal Dashboard Design

SAP Crystal solutions deliver an affordable, open, self-service approach to entry-level business intelligence (BI) – empowering your business users to explore, view, report, visualize, and manage actionable information in an intuitive, secure way. With insight into every aspect of your business, you can monitor performance, identify opportunities for growth, and transform how you run your business.

SAP Crystal solutions can help your business users, IT users, and developers do the following:

• Turn data into actionable reports using SAP Crystal Reports software
• Discover answers to business questions using SAP Crystal Interactive Analysissoftware
• Drive better decision making with interactive presentations using SAP Crystal Presentation Design software
• Monitor business performance through real-time business dashboards using SAP Crystal Dashboard Design software
• Rely on automatic delivery of personalized, secured dashboards and reports with SAP Crystal Server software

With SAP Crystal solutions, everyone in your organization can leverage a personalized view into trusted, timely, information. As a result, they can make fast, smart decisions – and you gain a competitive edge.

Learn how this Dutch company uses SAP Crystal Dashboard Design to add visually attractive dashboards to its own 3-D building software, helping the company provide more accurate project estimates and impress its clients.

Read this success story (PDF).