What is SAP’s strategic direction for Enterprise, Formatted Reporting?
• SAP’s direction for enterprise, formatted reporting is Crystal Reports (CR), the de-facto industry standard for enterprise reporting. Crystal Reports is included as part of the SAP BusinessObjects BI suite, a premium offering. Crystal Reports is already integrated with SAP BW and SAP ERP today using advanced connectivity methods to access virtually all SAP data objects needed for enterprise reporting. BEx Report Designer will remain in the NetWeaver BW portfolio for lightweight reporting on NetWeaver BW data but beyond Release 7.0 EhP1, no further enhancements of the Report Designer are planned. To help SAP customers who have already invested in the BEx Report Designer transition to the full version of Crystal Reports,, SAP will provide a ‘base’ version of Crystal Reports entitled ‘Crystal Reports for NetWeaver BW. • The base version will be restricted to SAP NetWeaver BW queries and views and limited in term of productive reports • Crystal Report for SAP NetWeaver BW will be availab
