Getting Started with Crystal Reports 2011

Overview/Description
Business data comes from a variety of sources and is stored in various formats. The volume and variety of business data presents immense potential for understanding and responding to customer requirements and business process optimization. In order to realize this potential, SAP provides the Crystal Reports 2011 reporting tool. Crystal Reports 2011 allows business users to extract and present formatted reports from business data. Crystal Reports 2011 provides a very user friendly interface to various data sources including database, MS-excel, and flat text files. This course provides an introduction to the Crystal Reports 2011 reporting tool including an initiation to the user-friendly interface and the various formatting and layout options as well as the various methods of data access made available to users through Crystal Reports 2011.

Target Audience
Individuals, such as managers, business support staff (secretarial) and project team members – those responsible for extracting and analyzing a variety of information about a business using Crystal Reports

Expected Duration (hours)
2.5

Lesson Objectives

Getting Started with Crystal Reports 2011

identify the features of Crystal Reports

recognize the functions of the main Crystal Reports interface elements

recognize which Crystal Reports explorer to use in a given situation

create a report using the Report Creation Wizard

create a report from scratch

use an existing report as a model for creating new report

customize sections in a report

customize the presentation of data in reports

create a report

customize a report

organize data using sorting, filtering, and summarizing

recognize the role of formulas in Crystal Reports

distribute reports in a specified format

organize data to display in a specified way

distribute reports