Crystal Reports is the industry leader for enterprise reporting. Crystal Reports allows you to create a broad range of highly formatted reports . This includes creating legal, statutory, and form based reports as well as complex financial reports involving hierarchies. Crystal Reports offers features like crosstabs, charts, and other visualizations features that promote user interactivity such as drill down, filtering and what-if-analysis.
Moving forward with SAP’s vision, Crystal Reports will replace Report Designer, which is currently part of the SAP Netweaver BW 7.0 Business Explorer bundle. Crystal has native drivers that support connectivity to a wide range of data sources including, but not limited to SAP BW, SAP ERP, Web Services, ODBO, and ODBC connections.
