Universe or Crystal Reports???

What is preferable when we are creating reports on ECC?
Building a Universe over ECC (or) Crystal Reports??
Please help.

You cannot access all data in your SAP ERP system if you build a universe on the underlying database. Some of the data are stored in a consolidated/encoded form in the database tables and the extraction is not always trivial/possible.
For the time being the only officially supported way to report on ECC is to use Crystal Reports and the native SAP drivers (Infoset, Table/function/cluster).
There is a prototype connector that allows you to get data from ECC into the data federator and build a universe on top of that.
SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence Reporting for SAP ERP [original link is broken]
Still keep in mind that this is a prototype and not a finalized product.
As far as I know HANA is one of the solutions SAP is working on that will enable you to report on ECC data directly from the SAP BO BI tools using the new version of the universe (as delivered in XI 4.x).
Regards,
Stratos

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My question is related to [KBase Article ID:344488|http://technicalsupport.businessobjects.com/KanisaSupportSite/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=344488&sliceId=&dialogID=24618166&stateId=1%200%2024614949]
Article refers to: Crystal Reports XI
Symptom
When attempting to create a connection to a universe in Crystal Reports, after clicking OK in the Database Expert Query Panel, the following error message appears: "Logon failed".
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Hello Donald,
I'll describe the process flow when Crystal Report reports off of a Universe, in hopes the info will help narrow down your issue.
When you create a Crystal Report and open an Universe, it connects to the Enterprise system and uses a Report Server on Enterprise to generate the SQL Statement. After you create the Query in the Query Panel, and add the Query to the report, the SQL Statement is sent to the Crystal Report Designer.
The Crystal Report Designer makes a local connection to the database and sends the SQL Statement to retrieve data.
You're using ODBC connectivity. If the defined ODBC isn't identical between the server where the Report Server is running, and the client where the Crystal Report Designer is running, then you'd get the Logon failed error.
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Hi
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Hi everybody,
as we know Crystal Reports can not use OLAP universes as data source. The details about that have been discussed several times in this forum, for example in the threads:
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The possible data sources are perfectly explained in the Blog from Ingo Hilgefort.
/people/ingo.hilgefort/blog
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From my point of view these missing functionality comes with a lot of drawbacks. The universe has a lot of advantages, and first of all it is isolating the business users form technical complexities. But if the business users can not access to the OLAP universe they have to face to technical complexities.
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Hello to everybody.
When I was starting to work on the BO products I had exactly the same question.
Why were the OLAP Universes not supported in Crystal Reports?
Well, I have a few facts in my mind, I explained the decision of SAP in this case with for myself.
1. Very simple and my first thought: monetary aspects. There excist the SAP Integration Kit. These drivers work pretty fine. So for what reason SAP should invest money in an other technique to access the SAP data?
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3. Creating a Universe out of OLAP data destroys the moredimensionality. Universes are flat constructs. So maybe it makes no sense to use this meta layer.
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5. I think the SAP itself did not know where the journey should go with this toolset. A roudmap that changes severalt times in one year an many many rumours about these tools proof this.
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Greetings,
Sebastian

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Sorry, I may not know how to describe this in the correct technical manner, but I'll explain in as simple terms as I can.
I open up Crystal Reports 2013 click new document
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Hi Daniel,
What is the reporting DB used?
The trick with your configuration is the following:
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See more details on this KBA:
https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1821625
Regards,
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We were using Crystal Reports on top of Business Views until now. Due to considerable post-migration work with Crystal Reports on top of Business Views we are thinking of switching to Crystal Reports on top of Universe.
Can anybody explain me whether there is any drawback while using *Universe with Crystal Reports* instead of Business Views with Crystal Reports.
Please consider the following pointswhile giving an evaluation -
Dynamic parameter
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Yes, you can create crystal reports on top of universes. But there is one major drawback using universe. You can connect to only one database at a time. But in Business View you can connect to multiple databases. If you are ok with this, you can absolutely go for universes.
Dynamic parameter --- Yes its possible
(ii) LOV creation and maintainence --- Whatever the LOVs you have in universe, you can use the same. And also you can use LOVs created in Business Views while creating reports on top of universes. Any how please check. not very sure about it.
(iii) Maintaining order of parameters --- Yes, the order of parameters can be managerd using universe designer itself.
(iv) Updating Universe/Business View level changes in Report (Verify database) -- No need of updates required to be done in report. There are few changes which can happen for universe. Seemlessly you don't need to do anything to reports. Unless you delete some objects in universe.
(v) Report performance -- Never checked in this perspective. Performance should be fine.
Regards
Gowtham

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" 1363326 - Error: Logon failed on Crystal Report conecting to OLAP Universe."
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Make sure that the Access DB is accessible also from the local workstation the CR Designer is installed on.
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Regards,
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Hi everybody,
we are discussing about that fact in another thread.
I would appreciate if you join the discussion under:
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Instead of just stating that the thread has been moved, can you also provide a link to that thread? I cannot find the moved thread at all.

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Edited by: Nanda Kishore B on Oct 21, 2010 8:05 AM

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