Analytics and reporting

Empower your people to make smart decisions faster

Analytics and reporting

SAP Business One empowers your employees to make smart, confident decisions, faster by capturing all critical information across sales, customers, operations, and finance – making it instantly available company-wide. By integrating this data in one system instead of multiple disconnected spreadsheets, it eliminates duplicate data entry, costs, and related errors. Workflow-based alerts trigger automatic responses when important business events occur, allowing you to focus on the most critical events. You have clear visibility into how your business is performing and greater confidence in the information used to make decisions.

Empower your people to make smart decisions faster

Together with the fully integrated SAP Crystal Reports for SAP Business One you can create dashboards and reports that provide insight into all business areas. Intuitive, interactive drill-down functionality helps you get answers to your most pressing questions. Employees can address customer needs faster, and managers can accurately track revenues, costs, and cash flow to assess performance and take quick corrective action.

For even faster information access, the SAP HANA version for SAP Business One provides powerful analytics in real time, making it easier for users to search SAP Business One for the information you need and create standard or ad hoc reports in a moment.

INTEGRATING CRYSTAL REPORTS WITH SAP BUSINESS ONE

Comprehensive Reporting To Drive Small Business Success

Converting raw business data into meaningful information that can be acted upon remains an ongoing challenge for most small businesses. Few reporting tools have the functionality not only to gather data from appropriate systems but also to transform that data into a format that is useful for a business user. As a result, businesses are often compelled to cobble together reports from data that has been imported in an ad hoc manner from different applications. Additionally, since most small businesses have very limited IT resources, they constantly look for ways to make it easier for their employees to create, manage, and distribute reports.

The Crystal Reports family of offerings from the SAP BusinessObjects solution portfolio is a powerful and dynamic reporting solution that helps users design, explore, visualize, and deliver compelling reports and information across the enterprise network (see table). With complete integration with the Microsoft Office products and a focus on data security, Crystal Reports allows you to choose from a variety of report formats and to control access to information displayed. Together, SAP Business One and Crystal Reports provide comprehensive reporting functionality that allows you to get crucial insights into all parts of your business.

Get Accurate Reports with Integrated Reporting and Analytics

With the integration of Crystal Reports and SAP Business One, you can launch the latest release of Crystal Reports from within the SAP Business One application. You can then access data from SAP Business One and from associated applications from SAP software solution partners.

You can install the integration add-on using the standard mechanism for installing add-ons and can access it from the main menu in SAP Business One. Once installation is complete, you can publish any Crystal Reports .rpt file on the associated menu area in SAP Business One and run the reports from any SAP Business One client. You can create groups, assign users to the groups, and then specify access rights that allow only certain people to run the reports.

Create Comprehensive Reports with Stunning Visualizations

SAP Business One and Crystal Reports allow you to create new reports and customize existing ones using a variety of presentation formats that include interactive drill-down functionality and sophisticated formatting. Together, the offerings provide reporting for all business processes supported by SAP Business One, including accounting, sales, purchasing, production, inventory, service, and management.

You can create advanced report designs and visualizations by adding dynamic charts, graphics, and even video files to your reports. Adobe Flash offers a wide variety of flexible data presentation options. You can quickly embed Flash (SWF) files into your reports for compelling and information-rich reports.

Maximize Productivity with Interactive Reports

On-report sorting, filtering, and reformatting allow you to explore information interactively without requerying the database. This means that you can answer business questions faster and with fewer reports, significantly reducing report proliferation and dependence on IT. For example, you can access the specific report information you need in seconds by selecting the desired data view from the report viewer’s parameter panel.

Expand the Scope by Adding Crystal Reports Server

By adding Crystal Reports Server software, you can expand the scope of your application and enhance the value to your business in many ways. Crystal Reports Server provides all the data access and features of Crystal Reports in a managed, secured server environment.

You can automate the production of reports at a prescheduled time and set up automated delivery using e-mail or print, or by saving to a shared directory on the server or directly to the Crystal Reports Server business intelligence portal. This flexibility allows you to manage and share your reports securely without depending on IT.

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