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The integration of SAP BusinessObjects Crystal Reports and SAP BusinessObjects Xcelsius in SAP Business Suite provides you with analysis functions that are integrated in the user interface and processes: Embedded Analytics.

Implementation Considerations

Configuration

For more information about the configuration, see SAP Solution Manager under   Solutions/Applications   Basic Configuration   Configuration Structures  .

Installation

For more information about the installation, see SAP Service Marketplace at http://service.sap.com/bosap-instguides or SAP Help Portal at http://help.sap.com under   SAP BusinessObjects   All Products  .

Conditions of License

Take note of the license conditions for using SAP BusinessObjects.

Integration

Embedded Analytics comprises an attractive display of data using products from SAP BusinessObjects such as Crystal Reports or Xcelsius.

Embedded Analytics contain the following integrations:

  • Crystal Reports as an alternative for displaying simple lists in SAP GUI ALV Grid, Web Dynpro ABAP ALV, and POWER lists

  • Crystal Reports for the formatted display of data from queries

  • Xcelsius for the graphical or interactive display of data from queries in dashboards

Features

Predefined reports and dashboards provide a detailed, graphical, or interactive display of (transaction) data from SAP Business Suite or from SAP NetWeaver BW.

Users can call these functions in SAP NetWeaver Business Client, in SAP NetWeaver Portal, or on the user interfaces of SAP CRM.

List Display with Crystal Reports

The integration of Crystal Reports provides an alternative for displaying simple lists in SAP List Viewer for SAP GUI, Web Dynpro ABAP ALV, and POWER lists.

See List Display with Crystal Reports

Queries and Crystal Reports

The integration of Crystal Reports supports a formatted display of data from queries.

See Displaying Data from Queries Using Crystal Reports

Queries and Xcelsius Dashboards

The integration of Xcelsius supports the graphical or interactive display of data from queries in dashboards.

See Displaying Data from Queries in Xcelsius Dashboards

Constraints

You can evaluate and display data from SAP systems only.

More Information

For more information about delivered Xcelsius Dashboards and Crystal Reports, see SAP Help Portal under   http://help.sap.com   SAP NetWeaver   BI Content   BI Content 705   Extension BI Content 705  .