Covering Crystal Reports for SAP Business One. Learn what's included with your SAP Business One solution, where to find FREE training, where to find a detailed How To document, and other reporting options available. Crystal reports is used in SAP Business One for reporting, forms and document development. One Crystal Reports designer license is included with your SAP Business One application. Your users do not need viewer licenses to see reports and forms. Free training is available from the SAP Community Network, http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-8514 and the SAP Business One Academy http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-57116. A detailed How To Guide can be downloaded from the Aether Consulting website http://www.aetherconsulting.com Other reporting solutions for SAP Business One include Crystal Dashboard Design, and SAP Lumira. These are not included with the solution, but are available at an additional cost.

1. SHORT OVERVIEW:
Crystal Reports
in SAP Business One
August 2016

2. Crystal Reports for SAP Business One
• What’s included with SAP Business One
• Where to find training on Crystal Reports
• Where to find a detailed How To Document on Crystal Reports for SAP
Business One 9.0
• Other reporting and analytics options
Purpose

3. Crystal Reports – Included in SAP Business One
Characteristics
 De facto standard solution for reporting
 Pixel-perfect, formatted reports
 integrated report design environment
Features
 Integrated viewer with accurate print preview
 export to PDF, XML, and MS Excel
 user-friendly report design environment
Target Group
 All managers, professionals who rely on business
data to make decisions
 All employees who need business data for their
daily tasks
License
 each SAP Business One customer gets one free
Crystal Reports designer license. Additional
designer licenses to be purchased.
 no viewer licenses needed
Availability
 SAP Business One, version for SAP HANA
 SAP Business One analytics powered by SAP HANA
 SAP Business One

4. SAP Community Network SAP Crystal page
Where To Find Training
• The SAP Community Network gives lots of details on SAP Products, and Crystal
is no exception. FREE resource covers the “basics” of Crystal Reports.
• http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-8514

5. Crystal Reports eLearning on SAP Business One
Academy
• FREE! SAP Business One Academy page at http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-57116
• Click the Analytics section, then click the Crystal Reports hyperlink
Where To Find Training

6. Work with SAP Crystal
Reports in SAP Business
One
Available from the Aether Consulting
website, this document covers detailed
instructions on How to Work with SAP
Crystal Reports in SAP Business One
www.aetherconsulting.com
Go to Solutions, Crystal Reports
How To Guide - pdf

7. Other Reporting Solutions
SAP Crystal Dashboard Design, version for the SAP
Business One application
Characteristics
 Consolidate key metrics and information into a single
dashboard to monitor business performance
 Visualize business data for quick and easy
understanding
Features
 Powerful dashboard design environment
 Drillable, interactive dashboard views
 “What if” analysis to understand the impact of
business change
Use Case Examples
 Executive needs to view the company’s performance
at a glance
 Senior manager wants to monitor his KPIs
Availability
 SAP Business One, version for SAP HANA
 SAP Business One analytics powered by SAP
HANA
 SAP Business One
License
 Separate license needed

8. Other Reporting Solutions
SAP Lumira Desktop, Standard Edition
Characteristics
 Data visualization tool makes findings easy to
understand
 Share data
 End user can start analyzing without training
Features
 Acquire data from SAP HANA models (semantic
layers), Excel, CSV, etc.
 Enrich, calculate, edit data
 Visualize dataset by numerous chart options
 Share dataset or visualization with others
Use Case Examples
 a sales manager wants to drill down through the
regional revenue details
 a business analyst searches for correlation between
revenues and customer characteristics
Availability
 SAP Business One, version for SAP HANA
 SAP Business One analytics powered by
SAP HANA
 SAP Business One
License
 Separate license needed

9. Contact Aether Consulting
sales@aetherconsulting.com