Design and Deliver Powerful, Flexible Reports with Crystal Reports 2013 or 2016

​Organizations use reporting tools to access data sources and generate customized reports. Crystal Reports enhances report building and report processing techniques with a variety of features that add value to a presentation. In this course, you will create a basic report by connecting to a database and modifying the report's presentation.
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Information is critical to making sound business decisions. Data presented without any formatting or structure holds little or no meaning for interpretation. Crystal Reports 2013 helps you build advanced reports with ease, presenting complex information in an understandable way.

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​Features of Crystal Reports 2016
Enable Informed Decision Making – Design and Deliver Powerful, Flexible Reports
With SAP Crystal Reports 2016, you can create powerful, richly formatted, dynamic reports from virtually any data source, delivered in dozens of formats, in up to 24 languages. A robust production reporting tool, SAP Crystal Reports turns almost any data source into interactive, actionable information that can be accessed offline or online, from applications, portals and mobile devices.
  • Flexible, customizable report design – Create highly formatted, pixel-perfect reports quickly with SAP Crystal Reports’ intuitive design interface and efficient workflows.
  • Dashboards and visualizations – Generate interactive dashboards and report visualizations without the need for any coding.
  • Broad data connectivity – Connect to information sources spread across the organization directly. Data sources include: Native, ODBC, OLE DB, and JDBC connectivity to relational, OLAP, web services, XML, enterprise data sources, and salesforce.com.
  • Powerful report delivery options – Deliver personalized reports to your business users’ preferred destination in their preferred language and format.
  • Expanded support for Excel – XLSX export takes full advantage of the new Excel file format by allowing more data to be exported to a single worksheet, without spanning multiple worksheets.
  • Read-only report viewing – The new RPTR format provides a read-only RPT export option, giving you the confidence that users won’t be able to modify reports.
  • SAP Crystal Dashboard Design software, Adobe Flex, Adobe Flash, and HTML 5 integration – Enable SAP Crystal Reports developers to produce powerful "mash-ups" pulling data from various sources.