Reporting and Business Intelligence in SAP Business One
Improve Transparency to Drive Success for small Businesses
Converting raw business data into meaningful information remains an ongoing challenge
for most small businesses. In many cases information is scattered all over the company
or resides in employees’ heads, forcing businesses to rely on manually reconciling
data from various systems, people, and reports. Even if businesses have integrated
business applications that gather data from various parts of the business, only
a few have the tools to transform that data into a format that is useful for a business
user.
The SAP Business One application provides integrated reporting and analytic tools
to help you access the critical business information you need with ease. With the
SAP Crystal Reports® software, version for SAP Business One, you can generate, explore,
and deliver compelling graphical reports that complement the existing reports in
SAP Business One (see the table below). Prebuilt dashboards, enabled by SAP Crystal
Dashboard Design software, provide snapshots of key performance indicators such
as sales performance, overdue receivables, year-to-date revenue, and service call
turnover.
SAP Crystal Reports bases its reports on live data drawn from all parts of your
business, including accounting, sales, purchasing, production, inventory, service,
and operations. It allows you to access data not only from SAP Business One but
also from the applications of SAP software solution partners and other company software.
Integrated Reporting and Analytics
The integration of SAP Crystal Reports with SAP Business One allows you to work
with the industry’s leading business intelligence functionality in SAP Business
One and provides a single, consistent user experience.
After you install the SAP Crystal Reports software using a simple, guided procedure,
you can access it from the main menu in SAP Business One. You can use prebuilt reports
that incorporate best practices, or create and deploy your own reports based on
your requirements. Any report designed with SAP Crystal Reports can be imported
into the associated menu area in SAP Business One to be natively used within the
application.
Reports with Powerful Visualizations
SAP Business One and SAP 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 software provides reporting
for all business processes supported by SAP Business One, including accounting,
sales, purchasing, production, inventory, service, and management.
You can customize reports by adding standard data fields of SAP Business One or
any user-defined fields to a report layout. You can attach messages with personalized
information, helping to increase reading rates.
Maximize Productivity with Interactive Reports
On-report sorting, filtering, and reformatting allow you to explore information
interactively without having to requery the database. This means that you can answer
business questions faster and with fewer reports, which significantly reduces 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 SAP Crystal Reports Server software, you can expand the scope of your
application and enhance the value to your business in many ways. SAP Crystal Reports
Server provides all the data access and features of SAP Crystal Reports in a managed,
secure server environment.
You can automate the production of reports at prescheduled times and set up automated
delivery using e-mail or print. You can save reports to a shared directory on the
server or directly to the business intelligence portal.
