Integrating SAP Crystal Reports with SAP BOBJ!

The SAP BOBJ (Business Objects Business Intelligence) (also known as BO) is a comprehensive suite of enterprise software applications that enable business users to manage and analyze business intelligence data effectively. On the other hand SAP, Crystal reports had become a revolutionary way of report generation and documentation. Data Analysis and Reporting has to coincide in order to achieve the business excellence.

SAP Crystal Reports

SAP Crystal Reports is the best that SAP could provide its customer for reporting. It is a flexible and powerful software suite that enables enhanced production of formatted reports or report portfolios. It achieves pixel accuracy on all tables, graphs, text elements and various other data cluster that can be positioned precisely in the report. It is evident that the business can achieve excellent and extended data process capabilities with SAP Crystal Reports.

SAP BW Integration of Crystal Reports

In addition to the formatting features and selection possibilities, successful SAP BW integration is a tremendous strength of using SAP Crystal Reports. It made easier the process and integration of complex metadata such as SAP BW hierarchies.

Another significant benefit of using SAP Crystal Reports is the achievable perfection with which various different sources of data that can be effectively introduced into the report. These reports can also simultaneously process and visualize SAP and non-SAP data within the environment.

The performance portfolio is completed thanks to the close interplay with SAP Business Objects enterprise components, e.g. publishing. Reports can be time- or event-geared or full report portfolios can be processed automatically.

Within the scope of the introduction of the SAP Business Objects BI 4.0 platform, SAP’s Crystal Reports for Enterprise also offers the possibility to produce formatted reports. In particular, the integration of a new semantic shift (universes) allowing for access to a platform-transcending harmonized database must be listed here.

Training and Implementation

In order to effectively make use of advantages by integrating SAP Crystal Reports with SAP BOBJ, the business needs to adequately train their resources to effectively learn BOBJ and understand the integration behavior and features.