Crystal Reports Toolkit

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Establish and monitor the procedures and controls related to financial records and systems of your organization to ensure integrity of its financial information used by the management team in planning for and managing your organizations multiple funding sources and financial resources.

More Uses of the Crystal Reports Toolkit:

  • Lead application evaluation, development, design, installation, configuration, upgrades, testing and maintenance.

  • Guide: design and deploy dynamically scalable, highly available, fault tolerant, and reliable applications on cloud platforms.

  • Initiate: design software or customize software for client use with the aim of optimizing Operational Efficiency and provides information by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing development and service issues.

  • Ensure unit tests are completed and meet the test plan requirements, System Testing is completed and changes are implemented according to plan.

  • Secure that your organization complies; conducts initial system troubleshooting and recommends resolution to end user and forwards technical resolutions issues to the outsourced IT vendor.

  • Ensure you suggest; lead Requirements Gathering, analysis and design activities and act as liaison when necessary between thE Business and Developers.

  • Manage project stakeholders and ITS management and technical team to design Business Rules for developing/modifying modules to integrate with existing internal and external modules.

  • Diagnose, troubleshoot, resolve hardware, software or other network and system problems, and replace defective components when necessary.

  • Organize: code and develop the strategies that improves the current existing process of Business Intelligence Application Development or testing that saves manual efforts and time.

  • Coordinate: key software solutions recognize the responds to trends and innovation with practical strategies that solvE Business problems for clients.

  • Standardize: Power BI development also acts as System Administration, system analyzing and solution provider, also acts as a Project Team member, specifically on Requirements Definition and testing activities.

  • Develop and deploy integrated solutions aimed at modernizing, consolidating, and coordinating your organizational and Enterprise Applications, systems, and platforms.

  • Make sure that your organization solves moderate to complex application related problems, analyzes technology solutions options and provides feedback to appropriate parties.

  • Make sure that your enterprise participates in the identification, development, and communication of new standards and Best Practices as appropriate.

  • Communicate with Product Development and engineering departments to improve on current design or to identify possible problems with design.

  • Manage work with application developers and operations personnel to support Production Applications and user specific operations.

  • Establish the networking environment by designing system configuration, directing system installation, defining, documenting and enforcing system standards.

  • Secure that your corporation complies; exercises discretion and independent judgment to successfully manage, track, test, and release system and software changes.

  • Make sure that your enterprise complies; specialists create Test Data and evaluate test results to determine system/application performance and identify potential errors.

  • Involve in network modeling, analysis, planning, and coordination between network and Data Communications hardware and software.

  • Be accountable for conducting occasional training and workshops for department and staff in relation to articulation and transfer processes.

  • Arrange that your operation provides CEO and board of directors with current, accurate, and meaningful financial information to allow for sound Fiscal Management of your organizations multiple funding streams.

  • Drive: monitor systems activities, identify issues, resolve problems and appropriately escalate issues to management and/or vendor.

  • Interpret and analyze data using Statistical Techniques to identify any data deficiencies, significant trends, outliers, and to estimate product precision and accuracy.

  • Establish that your business meets with stakeholders and various levels of management to communicate scope/status of assigned development projects.

  • Secure that your organization complies; tests upgrade of software modifications; and coordinate the installation of new releases to end users with the outsourced IT vendor, ensuring compatibility with all Corporate Applications.

  • Coordinate and track efforts with internal business partners and external vendors during system updates/upgrades and/or configuration changes.

  • Drive: reliability the extent to which the employee can be depended upon to be available for work, do it properly, and complete it on time.

  • Audit: review forms and reports and confer with management and users about format, distribution, and purpose, and to identify problems and improvements.

  • Provide innovative solutions to complex business problems and design, develop and implement new integration and large scale projects from conception to completion.

 

Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Crystal Reports Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step Work Plans and maturity diagnostics for any Crystal Reports related project.

Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.

The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated Crystal Reports specific requirements:


STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...

  • The latest quick edition of the Crystal Reports Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.

Organized in a Data Driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…

  • Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation

Then find your goals...


STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track

Featuring 999 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of Process Design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Crystal Reports improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 999 standard requirements:

  1. Who is going to spread your message?

  2. For your Crystal Reports project, identify and describe thE Business environment, is there more than one layer to thE Business environment?

  3. How is the Crystal Reports Value Stream Mapping managed?

  4. Do you effectively measure and reward individual and team performance?

  5. What are the minority interests and what amount of minority interests can be recognized?

  6. Is there an action plan in case of emergencies?

  7. What are your current levels and trends in key measures or indicators of workforce and leader development?

  8. What are the short and long-term Crystal Reports goals?

  9. What to do with the results or outcomes of measurements?

  10. To what extent does each concerned units management team recognize Crystal Reports as an effective investment?


Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:

  • The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the Crystal Reports book in PDF containing 994 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...

Your Crystal Reports self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:

  • The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the Crystal Reports Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Crystal Reports areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:

    • Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix
    • Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough Crystal Reports Self-Assessment
    • Is secure: Ensures offline Data Protection of your Self-Assessment results
    • Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:

 

STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy

The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage Crystal Reports projects with the 62 implementation resources:

  • 62 step-by-step Crystal Reports Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Crystal Reports project requirements and success criteria:

Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:

  1. Cost Management Plan: Eac -estimate at completion, what is the total job expected to cost?

  2. Activity Cost Estimates: In which phase of the Acquisition Process cycle does source qualifications reside?

  3. Project Scope Statement: Will all Crystal Reports project issues be unconditionally tracked through the Issue Resolution process?

  4. Closing Process Group: Did the Crystal Reports Project Team have enough people to execute the Crystal Reports project plan?

  5. Source Selection Criteria: What are the guidelines regarding award without considerations?

  6. Scope Management Plan: Are Corrective Actions taken when actual results are substantially different from detailed Crystal Reports project plan (variances)?

  7. Initiating Process Group: During which stage of Risk planning are risks prioritized based on probability and impact?

  8. Cost Management Plan: Is your organization certified as a supplier, wholesaler, regular dealer, or manufacturer of corresponding products/supplies?

  9. Procurement Audit: Was a formal review of tenders received undertaken?

  10. Activity Cost Estimates: What procedures are put in place regarding bidding and cost comparisons, if any?

 
Step-by-step and complete Crystal Reports Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


2.0 Planning Process Group:

  • 2.1 Crystal Reports Project Management Plan
  • 2.2 Scope Management Plan
  • 2.3 Requirements Management Plan
  • 2.4 Requirements Documentation
  • 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix
  • 2.6 Crystal Reports project Scope Statement
  • 2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log
  • 2.8 Work Breakdown Structure
  • 2.9 WBS Dictionary
  • 2.10 Schedule Management Plan
  • 2.11 Activity List
  • 2.12 Activity Attributes
  • 2.13 Milestone List
  • 2.14 Network Diagram
  • 2.15 Activity Resource Requirements
  • 2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure
  • 2.17 Activity Duration Estimates
  • 2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet
  • 2.19 Crystal Reports project Schedule
  • 2.20 Cost Management Plan
  • 2.21 Activity Cost Estimates
  • 2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet
  • 2.23 Cost Baseline
  • 2.24 Quality Management Plan
  • 2.25 Quality Metrics
  • 2.26 Process Improvement Plan
  • 2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix
  • 2.28 Roles and Responsibilities
  • 2.29 Human Resource Management Plan
  • 2.30 Communications Management Plan
  • 2.31 Risk Management Plan
  • 2.32 Risk Register
  • 2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment
  • 2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix
  • 2.35 Risk Data Sheet
  • 2.36 Procurement Management Plan
  • 2.37 Source Selection Criteria
  • 2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan
  • 2.39 Change Management Plan


3.0 Executing Process Group:

  • 3.1 Team Member Status Report
  • 3.2 Change Request
  • 3.3 Change Log
  • 3.4 Decision Log
  • 3.5 Quality Audit
  • 3.6 Team Directory
  • 3.7 Team Operating Agreement
  • 3.8 Team Performance Assessment
  • 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment
  • 3.10 Issue Log


4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:

  • 4.1 Crystal Reports project Performance Report
  • 4.2 Variance Analysis
  • 4.3 Earned Value Status
  • 4.4 Risk Audit
  • 4.5 Contractor Status Report
  • 4.6 Formal Acceptance


5.0 Closing Process Group:

  • 5.1 Procurement Audit
  • 5.2 Contract Close-Out
  • 5.3 Crystal Reports project or Phase Close-Out
  • 5.4 Lessons Learned

 

Results

With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Crystal Reports project with this in-depth Crystal Reports Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:

  • Diagnose Crystal Reports projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices
  • Implement evidence-based Best Practice strategies aligned with overall goals
  • Integrate recent advances in Crystal Reports and put Process Design strategies into practice according to Best Practice guidelines

Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.

Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'

This Toolkit empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Crystal Reports investments work better.

This Crystal Reports All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.

 

Includes lifetime updates

Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.