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.
Configuration
For more information about the configuration, see SAP Solution Manager under
.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 .
Conditions of License
Take note of the license conditions for using SAP BusinessObjects.
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
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.
Queries and Xcelsius Dashboards
The integration of Xcelsius supports the graphical or interactive display of data from queries in dashboards.
You can evaluate and display data from SAP systems only.
For more information about delivered Xcelsius Dashboards and Crystal Reports, see SAP Help Portal under http://help.sap.com .