SAP Crystal Dashboard Design 2011 is a powerful dashboarding solution for small and midsize companies. It can help you stay ahead of the competition by delivering actionable insight via dashboards that provide an overview of business performance. Depending on the edition purchased, you can leverage a number of different portal integration and data connectivity options for rapid development and deployment.

New Features

New in SAP Crystal Dashboard Design 2011

• Translation manager support - now a single report can support multiple languages. The translation manager tool can be used to manage translated text.
• Regional date formatting - date, time and number formats now automatically adjust to match the end users' viewing locales.
• Platform support - Microsoft Office 2010 (32-bit) is now supported.
• Languages - there is now support for 22 languages including Thai, Czech, Hungarian, Slovakian and Turkish.
• Direct binding to data in using a universe query - the new query panel enables direct data access through a universe when used with SAP Crystal Server 2011. Data values can be mapped directly to charts and selectors, there's no need for any additional web services or intermediate spreadsheets.
• Integration with lifecycle management tools - when used together with SAP Crystal Server 2011, you benefit from integration with the lifecycle management tools and dedicated caching and processing servers help to ensure fast data access.

Features

• Performance monitoring – Consolidate multiple reports and data from various locations into a single dashboard.
• Improved decision making – View corporate data in an understandable format.
• Predictive modeling – See the impact of your decisions immediately with what-if scenarios based on real-time data.
• Information management – Use the tools you already have to make information available to everyone.
• Easy data access – When used with SAP Crystal Server software, the 'Query Panel' accesses data through the Universe semantic layer making it easy to integrate live data into your dashboard.

Editions

SAP Crystal Dashboard Design, Departmental Edition 2011

Includes the following:

• Basic data presentation components
• Export to Adobe PDF and Microsoft Office
• Dashboard creation components and export to Web and Adobe Flash, AIR
• Unlimited Live data connections to external sources
• Connectivity to Adobe LiveCycle Data Services
• IBM WebSphere, MSFT SharePoint and Reporting Services integration
• Crystal Server connectivity and platform integration

Dashboard Viewing Option

A license of SAP Crystal Dashboard Viewing option must be acquired to access, view, or use dashboards connected to live data sources.

SAP Crystal Dashboard Design, Starter Package 2011

This bundle package includes:

• One copy of SAP Crystal Dashboard Design, departmental edition - Take advantage of a desktop application used to create interactive dashboards and visualisations from personal and external data sources.
• Ten licenses of SAP Crystal Dashboard Viewing option - SAP Crystal Dashboard Design, starter package, includes 10 licenses of SAP Crystal Dashboard Viewing option, which allows you to share dashboards and visual models connected to live data sources with 10 named users. You can purchase additional SAP Crystal Dashboard Viewing option licenses to support a larger deployment size up to 100 named users.

System Req.

• Operating systems: Microsoft Windows 7, Windows Vista SP2 and SP1, Windows XP SP3 and SP2, Windows Server 2003 SP1 and SP2. Microsoft Excel 2010 (32-bit only), 2007 SP1 and SP2, 2003 SP2 and XP.
• Memory: 1.8 GHz processor Memory: 2GB RAM.
• Disk space: 900 MB available hard drive space.
• Live data sources: SOAP-based Web services, SAP Crystal Reports software via Live Office, XML, Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services 2005, Adobe Livecycle Data Services ES 2.5.1, Flash variables, and any ODBC data source via SAP Crystal Reports Server Web service design tool (sold separately as part of SAP Crystal Reports Server).
• Portal Software: SharePoint Server 2007, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, IBM WebSphere Portal 6.13.