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From Crystal Reports 2008 to SAP Crystal Reports 2011 or SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise
Added by Martha Levi, last edited by Mike Seblani on May 09, 2012
Product versions: SAP BusinessObjects BI4.0, SAP Crystal Reports 2011, SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise 4.0
Learn More You can read more about the Crystal Reports strategy with both designers in my colleague Blair's blog.
Thus, we move on to the purpose of this article. What are the differences between these two versions? When should I use which version?. In this article you will find answers to these questions so you can take full advantage of SAP BusinessObjects BI4.0 by knowing when to utilize SAP Crystal Reports 2011 or SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise or both.
How is SAP Crystal Reports 2011 different from Crystal Reports 2008?
Only a few new features have been added to SAP Crystal Reports 2011: New Read-Only Report Format Export to XSLX from the report designer and viewer Integration with Visual Studio 2010
Learn More about SAP Crystal Reports 2011 Check out this blog and these educational videos.
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How is SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise different from Crystal Reports 2008? What is new?
The user interface has been completely redesigned offering a streamlined interface to allow the creation of reports with reduced amount of effort. Semantic layer support is improved. With SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise you can create reports against the new BI 4.0 common semantic layer From SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise you can connect directly to a SAP BEx query using SAP BICS connectivity. SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise processing servers in BI4.0 support native 64 bit. Multilingual capabilities have been improved as you can translate all text-based elements, and all translations can be managed and scheduled at the platform level by the Translation Management tool. New BI platform alerting framework can leverage alerts created in SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise. This allows users to manage their alert subscriptions on their own, thus reducing management overhead on the report designers.
Learn More about SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise Check out this video, this blog, and these educational videos.
What is not available yet and when should you expect it in SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise?
Forward Looking Statements The content in the table below contains forward looking statements regarding future releases of SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise. Anything that is denoted as a planned feature could change at any point in time. Every effort will be made to keep these statements up-to-date according to the most current SAP Crystal Reports roadmap.
Functional Area Create Reports on top of unmodeled data (i.e., direct to data) Crystal Reports specific APIs for consumption *
BI 4.0
[Planned] BI 4.0 Feature Pack 3 Planned for specific data sources including simplified connection authoring, deployment and administration Planned via REST and AJAX APIs. Review of existing applications workflows is recommended to insure support through REST and AJAX APIs.
Future Minor Release More data sources and connection management features will be considered
Planned improvements to both the REST and AJAX API to make them more comprehensive Continuing improvements to REST and AJAX APIs based on what our customers ask for. Currently not planned
Crystal Reports specific APIs for report creation and modification * Expose and interact with reports from Live Office Locate documents via platform search View Time Filtering (formerly provided by Business Views) Dynamic Data Connections (e.g., via Business Views) Scheduled LOVs User Function Libraries (UFL) Custom Functions Available within a report (not shared through the BI repository) OLAP Grid / OLAP Cube Report Unable to render embedded object: File (warning.gif! Only possible thorugh the Common Symantic layer \\ ) not found. Only possible thorugh the Common Symantic layer Label Creation Wizard Geographical Maps Barcodes SAP ERP Data Access Oracle eBusiness Integration Kit Siebel Integration Kit JD Edwards Integration Kit PeopleSoft Integration Kit Possible via Dashboard Design Integration
REST and AJAX APIs are targeted to satisfy the core use cases.
Planned via Common Semantic Layer Planned Available within a report (not shared through the BI repository) Only possible thorugh the Common Symantic layer Available within a report (not shared through the BI repository)
Currently not planned Possible via Dashboard Design Integration Planned Planned Available via the Common Semantic Layer Available via the Common Semantic Layer Currently not planned Currently not planned Currently not planned Currently not planned
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Saving Crystal Reports functions, images and text objects to the BI repository Read-Only Report Format (RPTR) Designer Hyperlinking Wizard Designer Performance Information Dialogue Save Export Options in Crystal Reports Designer CR 2008/2011 Dynamic Cascading Prompts Database Synonyms Submit enhancment requests for SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise here Automatically converted to static prompt (can be converted to semantic layer prompt) Automatically converted to static prompt (can be converted to semantic layer prompt)
Research in Progress
Research in Progress
Research in Progress
Automatically converted to static prompt (can be converted to semantic layer prompt) Currently not planned
There is no Java or .NET SDK to create standalone 2 tier applications or to create applications that create or modify SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise, however applications can be created with the SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 SDK to use the BI4.0 platform servers to manage, schedule and view reports for both SAP Crystal Reports 2011 and SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise.
User Interface
SAP Crystal Reports 2011 SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise
User Interface Same as Crystal Reports 2008 New interface i.e. tabbed toolbar, smart guidelines, smart default formatting
BI 4.0 Platform
SAP Crystal Reports 2011 SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise Processing Servers 32 bit native 64 bit Alerts are leveraged to new platform alerting framework
Servers can be run side by side on the same server. SAP BusinessObjects BI4.0 server install package installs both set of servers by default. Reports created in SAP Crystal Reports 2011 will processed on the 32 bit servers, reports created in Crystal Reports for Enterprise will be processed by the 64 servers.
NetWeaver Integration
Feature SAP BW connectivity SAP ERP connectivity Multilingual capabilities SAP prompting SAP Toolbar BW Publisher Life Cycle Management SAP Crystal Reports 2011 Via MDX Available Managed via SAP BW Via online prompting and Personalization Available Available SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise Via BICS to BEx queries Not available yet Managed via SAP BI 4.0 Translation Manager Via new Semantic Layer no RRI neither Personalization No longer relevant Reports are no longer saved to BW
Via BW Publisher and NetWeaver Transports Via BI 4.0 Life Cycle Manager and Netweaver CTS+
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The wizard will also detect any features that are in the report that are not supported in Crystal Reports for Enterprise. These missing features are listed previously in this article.
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