SAP Crystal Reports software enables you to easily design interactive reports and connect them to virtually any data source. Your users can benefit from on-report sorting and filtering – giving them the power to execute decisions instantly.

And with SAP Crystal Reports Dashboard Design package, you can gain even more functionality for compelling reports. This bundled product includes SAP Crystal Reports and SAP Crystal Dashboard Design ( formerly known as Xcelsius Engage), giving you the power to create highly formatted reports with what-if scenario models, interactive charts – and deliver them via the Web, e-mail, Microsoft Office, Adobe PDF, or embedded in enterprise applications. As a result, you can leverage your reports to make better operational and strategic decisions.

With SAP Crystal Reports, you can:

Leverage professional reporting - priced for everyone
Empower end users to explore reports with on-report sorting and parameters
Minimize IT and developer effort with interactive reports
Develop powerful data mashups
Save valuable report design time
Embed professional-looking reports in Java and .NET applications
Tailor your solution by adding report management and viewing tools

The SAP Crystal Reports runtime server license (formerly known as Crystal Reports Developer Advantage) provides all your users access to professional reporting, and give your developers the flexibility of a royalty-free reporting engine. This offering provides a runtime license that allows you to embed the Crystal Reports runtime engine in applications shared outside your organization or in commercial applications.

FEATURES:

SAP Crystal Dashboard Design integration:
· Visualize 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.