SAP BusinessObjects Crystal Reports is the reporting tool to create your pixel perfect reports on almost any source environment, for a large number of users. Crystal reports is a strong tool to deliver and design reports, based on a graphical connection towards your source data.

With SAP Crystal Reports everyone can create reports on almost any data and spread the reports over many users. SAP Crystal Reports contains a basic charting engine and offers the necessary grouping functionality and formula editing capabilities to make your own customized reports. Crystal reports offers this functionality in a standalone version and a server version.

With the standalone version all reports can be refreshed and viewed within the SAP Crystal Reports viewer. The server version adds in the necessary security structure, to make sure that reports are only seen having the required rights. In addition, the server version offers the capability to schedule your documents to make sure that everyone gets data on time.

SAP Crystal Reports is a solution to reach a wide group of people with the same standard report and is mostly used to create operational reporting, where limited drill down functionality is required. Since SAP Crystal is known as a pixel perfect reporting tool, it is widely used to create documents within your business software package (e.g. invoices, orders, etc.) that have to be identical towards lay-out every time you run it. Some basic analysis can be performed within SAP Crystal Reports, such as showing or hiding detail lines. Extended analyses based on SAP Crystal Reports are limited.

element61 has an extensive experience in the usage of SAP Crystal Reports. Therefore, we can assist you in the creation and maintenance of your report environment, or guide you through the implementation of SAP Crystal Reports within your company.

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