Hint: It involves HTML5! I first used Crystal Dashboard (then known as Xcelsius) in 2004 or 2005. Back then, the fact that the dashboards were deployed as Flash files was a selling point. Flash was available on over 90% of clients and Adobe had great plans for further developing the platform. Then, it all changed. The iPad ignored… Read More »
Crystal Dashboard 2016 (aka Dashboard 4.2) evaluations are now available. There’s no direct from SAP download link yet, so you’ll need to request download permission and be a customer of Pursuit Technology to download: For the licence key, you just need to register: Once we have an official download link from SAP, the requirement to be a customer… Read More »
This all happened 6 weeks ago, but with holidays and work commitments, it’s taken until now for me to write. I’d hoped SAP would produce a nice simple guide that I could just link to, but that would be too easy. The only other mention I’ve seen is a rather fanciful interpretation by another reseller that suggests savings… Read More »
Annoying isn’t it? Excel 2016 is installed (or Office 365), but that doesn’t count as 2007 or higher. Jokes about Office upgrades aside, this shouldn’t be a problem, but you can’t install. One solution is to uninstall Office 2016, install Office 2013, then install Office 2016 again. Not great, especially as Office 2013 takes up a lot of… Read More »
Short and sweet! If you have current maintenance for SAP BI4.2 or Edge 4.2, you will now be able to download the new release. You’ll need a new licence key, request through the normal SAP site. Our test server should be available within the next few days and we’ll be seeing how smoothly in-place upgrades go. We’re planning… Read More »
Crystal Dashboard’s a great product that’s always been made difficult to sell by its complex licensing model. It didn’t help having one product with three names (Crystal Dashboard, BusinessObjects Dashboard & Xcelsius), but three different versions was just too much. When you create a Dashboard, the data can either be in an embedded spreadsheet or in a ‘live’… Read More »
Before you get excited, this hasn’t been released yet. SAP are promising 1st half of 2016, so somewhere between New Year and your summer holiday. It still makes an interesting read to see both specific features and general direction of the products. I’ve mentioned Crystal Server 2016 in here, but the name’s not official yet. It will be… Read More »
Changes to software licensing always make me groan – simplification normally means the price has increased. Anything else normally means it’s become more complex. Edge BI is nice and simple – named or concurrent licences. You then get the kitchen sink of software thrown at you! Crystal Reports, Crystal Reports for Enterprise, Crystal Dashboard, Web Intelligence, Lumira Desktop, Mobile access,… Read More »
In the past 6 months, I’ve worked with customers running every version of Crystal (Reports, Server & Enterprise) since version 7. Next week I’m running an XI R2 training course. Today, I helped an engineering company with a Crystal Reports 9 problem. As much as we’d all love to be running with the latest and greatest software, it’s… Read More »
It’s long been a complaint that if you insert an image into Crystal Reports, the transparency is lost. It came up again in a support call from a customer. Glad to say I’ve found a solution – use Crystal Dashboard/Xcelsius. It works well too: Start up Crystal Dashboard, insert your various images, using the Excel model to control… Read More »