Let’s Speak BO Webinar: A Crystal Migration to Cloud Case Study – The 4 Big Steps

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Tuesday, June 26th at 10AM PT/1PM ET

Join us and SAP BusinessObjects Senior Consultant, Rajesh Ponnurangam, as he takes us through a fascinating customer case study focused on a Crystal Reports Migration to the cloud. An Apparel Retailer recently migrated from Crystal Report Server 10 to Crystal Reports Server 4.2 (2016) . This webinar will cover the four major steps involved in a Crystal Server/BI 4.X upgrade process, namely :

1. Preparing for the upgrade
2. Installing the BI Platform on Amazon Cloud (AWS)
3. Using the Upgrade Management Tool (UMT)
4. Configuring and testing the new BI Platform

This session will be of great value for customers who are looking into BusinessObjects hosted in the cloud. Rajesh will showcase and discuss step by step instructions that are involved in migrating Crystal Reports content from Crystal Server 10 to Crystal Server 2016 hosted. AWS, being the cloud hosting provider for this case study, will also be discussed in detail.

Let’s Speak BO Webinar: Let’s Get Crystal Clear with Crystal Reports

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Tuesday, October 3rd at 10AM PT/1PM ET

Is Crystal Enterprise the new version of Crystal Reports? How different is Crystal Enterprise compared to Crystal Reports 2016/2013/2011/2008. What are the architectural changes in Crystal Enterprise? What are the different data connectivity options for Crystal Enterprise? Which version of Crystal Reports is best suited for SAP data sources – specifically SAP BW & HANA? Do I need to convert Crystal 2008/2011 reports to CR Enterprise? What’s new in Crystal 2016? In this session Rajesh Ponnurangam, a senior consultant and Crystal guru at InfoSol, will address all of the above questions. A demo showing the differences between Crystal 2016 and CR Enterprise will be discussed.

Let’s Speak BO Webinar: Let’s Get Crystal Clear with Crystal Reports

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Tuesday, July 26th at 10AM PT/1PM ET

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Is Crystal Enterprise the new version of Crystal Reports? How different is Crystal Enterprise compared to Crystal Reports 2016/2013/2011/2008. What are the architectural changes in Crystal Enterprise? What are the different data connectivity options for Crystal Enterprise? Which version of Crystal Reports is best suited for SAP data sources – specifically SAP BW & HANA? Do I need to convert Crystal 2008/2011 reports to CR Enterprise? What’s new in Crystal 2016? This session will include a Demonstration showing the differences between Crystal 2013 and CR Enterprise.

Presenter: Rajesh Ponnurangam, InfoSol Inc.

Rajesh Ponnurangam. InfoSol IncRajesh Ponnurangam is a Senior Business Intelligence Consultant with Infosol. He is a SAP certified associate with extensive experience in design and development of Business Intelligence applications for apparel, retail, consumer goods and manufacturing industries. He specializes in Business Objects solutions, SAP HANA and BW data modeling. He has a proven track record in designing strategies for ETL, BI application development, implementation, rollout and support.

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Crystal Reports 2013 Beginner-Intermediate

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InfoSol does not currently offer Crystal Reports training, but you can view our other BusinessObjects training offerings on our BusinessObjects Training page

Price: Contact below for quote

Duration: 1 Day

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Who is this course intended for?

This course is designed for people who are new to Crystal Reports 2013 and need to learn concepts and theory. It is a hands-on course that will give you enough practice to go back and start working on reports in your environment.

What will I learn?

Have you always wanted to create complex pixel perfect reports but thought it would be too time consuming to learn?   Well this class is just for you!   In just one day, you will learn how to do this using Crystal Reports 2013.    This class will teach you the basics of creating a simple Crystal Report that contains prompts, formulas, summaries and graphs.   This class focuses on the complete workflow of creating a Crystal Report; from connecting to your data source to exporting the report for an end user. The course is activity intense – hands on and focuses on the report features that you will use the most.

What should I know?

Knowledge of databases and database concepts, such as joining tables together, and some reporting background (it can be in other products).

Course Agenda

Day 1

  • Crystal Reports Introduction, Snapshot of the UI and Exploring Data Sources
  • Basic Report Creation
  • Applying Filters
  • Sorting, Inserting Summaries and Grouping Data
  • Adding special fields and applying logos to report
  • Working with Sections and creating Summary Reports
  • Basic Formulas
  • Conditional Formatting & Highlighting Expert
  • Introduction to Charts
  • Exporting and Distributing options

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Crystal Reports Enterprise 4.1 in a Day

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Presenter: Paul Gonzales, InfoSol Inc.

Synopsis:

Never have enough time to sit down and learn how to build a Crystal Report? Then this is the right class for you! In this class we will learn the basics for creating a Crystal Report. You will learn how to create a simple report that has 1 prompt, 1 formula, 1 summary and 1 graph on it. The class will focus on the workflow of creating a Crystal Report from connecting to your data source to exporting the report for a user. The course focuses on the report features that you will use the most.

Pre-requisites:

1.)    Knowledge of databases and database concepts (such as joining tables together)

2.)    Some reporting background (can be in other products)

Outline:

1.)    Reviewing report requirements

2.)    Connecting to data source

3.)    Learning the report canvas

  • Sections
  • Database objects
  • Text objects
  • Formatting objects
  • Sorting

4.)    Groups and summaries

5.)    Record selection and prompts

6.)    Formulas

7.)    Graphs

8.)    Exporting

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