User`s guide
SAP BusinessObjects 3.x Integration for SAP Solutions provides support for specific SAP
BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform products and delivers improvements in the areas of
usability, implementation, and administration.
This section's focus is to provide a high level overview of the key new features and enhancements that
are specific to SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI Integration for SAP Solutions for Crystal Reports.
SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI Integration for SAP Solutions provides you with powerful
report-design tools and a framework for managing, scheduling, and distributing your reports over the
Web. As such, it enables you to extract additional value from your SAP Business Information Warehouse
(BW) and R/3 data and share it with users across the enterprise.
For more information on what's new in Crystal Reports 2011, see the “What's New in Crystal Reports
2011” chapter of the
Crystal Reports 2011 User's Guide
. For more information on what's new in SAP
BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform, see the What's New in SAP BusinessObjects Business
Intelligence platform chapter of the
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform Administrator
Guide
.
24.1.1.1 Reporting off SAP Data
This section shows how to connect to SAP from Crystal Reports, how to create reports off your SAP
data with the Data Access Components, and how to access your reports through BI launch pad. The
section also discusses the sample reports and the configuration options in Crystal Reports.
24.1.1.1.1 Overview of the Data Access Components drivers
The Data Access Components consist of the InfoSet Query driver, OLAP ABAPI driver, Open SQL
driver, ODS driver, and the BW MDX Query driver. These drivers enable you to design reports off your
SAP tables, ABAP functions, ABAP data clusters, ABAP queries, InfoSets, Operational Data Stores,
and cubes. With the BW MDX Query driver, you can design formatted Crystal reports that are based
on the data that is stored in SAP Business Information Warehouse (BW).
The Crystal reports that you create can be refreshed against the current SAP data by any user who
has installed the drivers along with Crystal Reports. You can also schedule these reports within SAP
BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform, so your users can access customized reports with
current data on a regular basis.
This section includes the following topics:
• Connecting to SAP with Crystal Reports
• Crystal Reports configuration options
Note:
The procedures in this section are based on Crystal Reports 2011.
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