SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise 4.

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Whats new?
2013 February
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Streamline Report Design
The SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise designer introduces more efficient workflows and features focused
on reducing time to create and format reports
Freehand SQL command object
Customize the SQL to optimize the query to
relational data sources
Verify Database options
Ensure the report query reflects the modifications
to the underlying data source
Subreport Enhancements
The datasourcefor a subreport is no longer
restricted to be of the same type as the main
report.
Eg. A BW report with an ERP universe subreport
is now possible
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Data Sources
Significant focus on performance and reliability is provided in BI 4.1 when accessing BEX queries through
Crystal Reports
Enhanced SAP BW support
Persist variable values in query panel and consume in HTML
viewer
Level selection for BW Hierarchy Variables
Level selection based on relative depth for BW Hierarchy
Node Variables
Variable selection before design time display of query panel
Toggle between technical name vs. member caption for BW
variables
Enhanced SAP ECC support
Support SAP ECCs optional parameters with no default
value when access through an authored universe
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Data Sources
Create Crystal Reports based on HANAs relational and OLAP data structures
Enhanced SAP HANA support
Direct OLAP access to Analytic and
Calculated views including hierarchies &
variables required platform like BW
Authored relational universe variable
support
Direct access (J DBC & ODBC first
introduced in SP4)
Support for J DBC & ODBC SSL
Authentication: Single Sign on through SAML
Enhanced authored relational universe
support:
XML files
Webservices (WSDL 1.1) and
OData 2.0
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Mobile and Viewers
Interactive Crystal Reports in SAP
BusinessObjects Mobile BI
Opendoc support in Mobile BI
Right to Left support in HTML viewer
Mirrored interface based on product locale
Right to left reportingof Arabic
Bi-directional text support in a single report
Other enhancements
Paging capabilityfor flat LOVs in HTML viewer (next,
previous)
Default view action in BI Launchpad
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OEM/Developer
Allow application developers to use Opendoc API with very long URL
OEM/Developer
Support for Opendoc POST request