difference between Crsytal Report 2011 and Crystal Report for Enterprise 4

[former_member186158]

difference between Crystal Report 2011 and Crystal Report for Enterprise 4.0?

I think Crystl Reprt 2011 has more function, is it right?

[Former Member]

Hi,

I recently attended a SAP Virtual trianing on SAP Business Objects BI 4.0.

Here are few extracts from that which probably shows some light to you:

SAP Crystal Reports 2011

1. UI and associated processing servers remain the same as CR 2008

2. Incremental update to CR 2008 with a few new features*

3. Continue to provide current CR 2008 functionality as-is for existing customers

SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise 4.0

1. Major update & redesign of the Crystal Reports Designer and associated processing servers

2. Focus on streamlined report design, reporting against BI 4.0 Universe, & reporting against SAP BW data

3. Provide the foundation for all future releases of Crystal Reports

Differences between these two releases:

Data Source & Usage Type General Recommendation

1. SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 SAP Crystal Reports Relational Universe (UNX) for Enterprise

OLAP Universe (UNX)

2. SAP NetWeaver BW 7 BEx Query (BICS) SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise

3. SAP NetWeaver BW 3.5 BEx Query SAP Crystal Reports 2011

4. SAP Profitability Cost Management SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise through Analysis View

SAP Strategy Management

SAP Budget, Planning and Consolidation

SAP Extended Analytics

5. Platform Driven Alerting SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise

6. Business Views SAP Crystal Reports 2011

7. Direct RDBMS or OLAP access SAP Crystal Reports 2011

SAP ERP/ Live Office Content/

Enterprise search content

Regards

Gowtham

[former_member647411]

How about if we want to connect directly to SAP ECC tables ? Which one is recommended ?

[harshil_joshi]

What is SAP Crystal Server 2011 ? ?

[JYOUSAF]

Asad,

SAP ERP direct table access then SAP Crystal Reports 2011 is the version of choice.

refer to this link:  From Crystal Reports 2008 to SAP Crystal Reports 2011 or SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise - Busine....  

[Former Member]

what does '3. Continue to provide current CR 2008 functionality as-is for existing customers' mean?

[JWiseman]

hi Erika,

this is an old discussion. please create your own discussion as per the rules of the forums.

-jamie