SAP Crystal Dashboard Design, Starter Package

Point-and-click ease – An intuitive interface, including pre-built components and data connectors, enables you to create dashboards connected to live company data in days instead of months.

Flexible design capabilities – Using various visual analytics, themes, colours, and fonts, you can easily customise the look and feel of your dashboards to fit your corporate standards.

Software Development Kit – Leverage Adobe Flex to create your own custom visualisation components and data connectors for use with SAP Crystal Dashboard Design software.

Connectivity to SAP Crystal Reports Server – Increase your productivity by consolidating multiple reports into a single live dashboard.

Connectivity to Adobe LiveCycle Data Services – Create operational dashboards off of your real-time transactional data sources and reduce network congestion by leveraging Adobe LiveCycle Data Services to broadcast data to multiple dashboards in real time.

Connectivity to Microsoft Reporting Services – With point-and-click ease, create live business dashboards from any Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services report.

Secure, interactive data visualisation – Secure access to real-time company data with one-click export of your dashboards to SAP Crystal Reports Server. Connect live to any corporate data source and take advantage of the power of SAP Crystal Reports Server security. Security, connectivity and interactivity are maintained regardless of whether the SAP Crystal Dashboard Design visualisation is deployed to InfoView, Dashboard Builder, or embedded inside Microsoft Office and Adobe PDF.

Capture historical data and analyse trends – SAP Crystal Dashboard Design has unique components to quickly allow you to capture historical data and analyse trend lines.

Visual modelling – Visual sliders on the screen allow end users to quickly evaluate multiple business scenarios by altering the underlying assumptions, and immediately see the impact on the results.

Drilldown charts and maps – Summarise rows of data in easy-to-understand charts and maps and provide report-level details with the click of a button.

View demo: Drilldown charts and maps

Dynamic menus and selectors – Take advantage of a large selection of dynamic menus to display large amounts of data clearly and concisely. Plus, build user-friendly OpenDoc URL builders that enable your end users to easily select report parameters and run personalised reports.

View demo: Dynamic menus and selectors

Stunning presentation – A comprehensive library of eye-catching visualisation components allows you to deliver complex company data in easy-to-understand business dashboards.

View demo: Stunning presentation

Export to Adobe AIR – Expand the reach and use of your business data by delivering them as part of easy-to-use desktop applications and widgets.

View demo: Export to Adobe AIR

Improved SAP Crystal Reports integration – Create interactive charts and what-if scenario models for your reports and easily bind them to your report data with the click of button. No manual coding is required.

Platform independence – SAP Crystal Dashboard Design visual models can be exported – with one click – to Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Outlook, Adobe PDF, Adobe Flash, SAP Crystal Reports Server and the Web. Plus, SAP Crystal Dashboard Design visualisations are in Adobe Flash format – allowing application developers and OEMs to easily embed them into Web or thick-client applications.

Download Microsoft PowerPoint example

Microsoft SharePoint integration kit – Provide your Microsoft SharePoint end users with interactive charts, graphs and dashboards using the Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server.

View demo: Microsoft SharePoint integration kit

IBM WebSphere integration kit – Integrate SAP Crystal Dashboard Design visualisations and content into your IBM WebSphere Portal. SAP Crystal Dashboard Design allows you to easily turn your dashboards into WebSphere portlets without requiring coding, and enables you to create complex dashboards that interact across portlets.