Sage HRMS Crystal Dashboard Design

SAP Crystal Dashboard Design®
for Sage HRMS
Interactive Dashboards
for Decision-Makers
Empower Business Users
to Transform Data Into
Dashboards
SAP Crystal Dashboard Design
provides interactive dashboards
from spreadsheets and corporate
data. It helps you predict future
performance; save costs, time,
and resources; extends the reach
of your Sage HRMS solutions;
and maximizes the value of your
current investments.
For companies today, understanding their workforce and focusing on employee
retention and development are critical to success. Now more than ever HR managers
and executives need timely and accurate data to analyze the performance and
productivity of their employees. Even when useful data is available, you are often
too overwhelmed to find it. The key to having data is the ability to transform it into
information that helps you and your executives make critical business decisions
about the workforce.
Using SAP Crystal Dashboard Design, you can examine the data and crunch the
numbers to transform human capital data into insightful dashboards. The dashboards
enable you to leverage the value of existing data and monitor performance to eliminate
the inefficiencies of the organization. You can consolidate multiple reports and data
from various locations into a single dashboard, giving you a comprehensive view of
information about your workforce.
From turnover to HR performance to recruiting, dashboards enable executives and
managers to monitor workforce analytics to drive return on employee investments.
They can help you determine who is performing, additions needed, and what skills
to search for in the future.
Figure 1: Sample Visual Model of Human Resources Data
Sage HRMS

Predict Future Performance
With SAP Crystal Dashboard Design, you can view company
data in an understandable format and make informed decisions.
Interactive sliders enable you to perform what-if analysis by
adjusting the underlying data and immediately seeing the impact
of your decisions. Built-in alerting and trending allow you to spot
trends, patterns, and areas of concern. Other advanced visual
components, such as gauges and drill-down charts, allow even
the least technical user to become a data-analysis hero.
Best of all, SAP Crystal Dashboard Design updates models in real
time. So you can be confident that you’re making decisions based
on the most accurate data available—whenever or wherever you
view the data.
Save Time, Money, and Resources
SAP Crystal Dashboard Design empowers you to create visual
models, dashboards, and calculators—reducing the burden
on your IT department and the time spent waiting for critical
information. Flexible deployment options and one-click export to
Microsoft Office, Adobe PDF, Adobe AIR, and the web allow you
to use the tools you already have to make information available
to everyone.
Extend the Reach of Your Sage HRMS Solutions
To meet unique business needs, an integrated software
development kit allows developers working with Adobe Flex
to create custom visualization components, data connectors,
and themes for use within SAP Crystal Dashboard Design.
Maximize the Value of Your Current Investments
SAP Crystal Dashboard Design offers a new and intuitive workflow
for integrating interactive visual models inside SAP Crystal
Reports®
for Sage HRMS. You can create interactive charts,
maps, and what-if scenarios for your reports in just a few minutes.
Then you can embed the interactive components into SAP Crystal
Reports and bind them to report data with just a click.
The integration is comprehensive, and the data bind between
the models and report data is automatic—eliminating hours of
manual coding.
Plus, visualizations created in SAP Crystal Dashboard Design are
in Adobe Flash file format (SWF)—allowing application developers
and OEMs to embed them into web or thick-client applications.
SAP Crystal Dashboard Design helps companies transform any type of data into
insightful dashboards that help decision-makers optimize the workforce and use analytics
to monitor business performance, identify crucial data relationships, and use what-if
scenarios to understand the potential of the organization. You can use SAP Crystal
Dashboard Design to gain a comprehensive view of your company’s workforce.
Figure 2: Recruitment Dashboard

How It Works
SAP Crystal Dashboard Design is based on Microsoft Windows®
. It is designed to create
data presentations based on Adobe Flash and to build dashboards from Microsoft Excel
spreadsheets and a single live data source. It offers a feature-rich library of ready-to-use
charts, maps, gauges, progress bars, and more for creating interactive and engaging
data visualizations. Its point-and-click interface lets you quickly connect prebuilt charts
and graphics to personal data in spreadsheets or live company data through an XML
data feed or web service. You can then deliver the charts and graphics live as part of
Microsoft Office, Adobe PDF, Adobe SWF, Adobe AIR, and the web (Figure 3).
Human Resources Dashboards
One named user may install and use SAP Crystal Dashboard
Design to create dashboards and visual models. A design
license cannot be shared among multiple individuals. If you
require additional design licenses, you may purchase
additional licenses of SAP Crystal Dashboard Design.
SAP Crystal Dashboard Design may not be used to
create dashboards and visual models connected to
SAP BusinessObjects™ software, SAP BusinessObjects
Edge solutions, SAP Business Suite software, or the
SAP NetWeaver®
Business Warehouse component.
Share Self-Contained and Live Dashboards
With SAP Crystal Dashboard Design, you may share self-
contained dashboards with an unlimited number of users. You
may also share dashboards connected to a live data source—
as long as they are not connected to SAP BusinessObjects
software, SAP BusinessObjects Edge solutions, SAP Business
Suite, SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse, or distributed as
part of a commercial sales, rental, or lease agreement.
Figure 3: Overview of Visual Models of Benefits
Sage HRMS | SAP Crystal Dashboard Design

SAP Crystal Dashboard Design helps you transform your human resources data into insightful
dashboards that support decision-makers. The software helps you monitor business performance,
identify crucial data relationships, and use what-if scenarios to understand potential performance.
You can use SAP Crystal Dashboard Design to gain a holistic view of your company’s data.
• Obtain a comprehensive view of company data from a flood of information from disparate sources.
• Enable business users to predict future performance and make well-informed decisions based on
corporate data.
• Reduce the burden on the IT department.
• Maximize the value of IT investments.
• Transform complex company data into simple, actionable information.
• Performance monitoring—Consolidate multiple reports and data from various locations into a single
dashboard.
• Improved decision-making—View corporate data in an understandable format.
• What-if scenarios—See the impact of your decisions immediately.
• Information management—Use the tools you already have to make information available to
everyone.
• Predict future performance by viewing your data in an understandable format.
• Save time, money, and resources by using flexible deployment options that do not depend on your
IT department.
• Extend the reach of your IT solutions by working with the software development kit that is delivered
along with SAP Crystal Dashboard Design.
• Maximize the value of your current IT investments by creating interactive elements from your
company’s data.
• Make better business decisions by understanding and interacting with your data.
Summary
Business Challenges
Key Features
Business Benefits
Q U I C K FA C T S
Sage HRMS | SAP Crystal Dashboard Design
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St. Petersburg, FL 33702
Telephone: 800-424-9392
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