About SAP Crystal Reports
SAP Crystal Reports is a reporting platform that helps small to midsize businesses create, design, and deliver formatted business reports and dashboards. Data analysts can utilize the drag-and-drop interface and built-in report designer to sort data, apply formulas, rank information, and set parameters, among other operations on a centralized platform.
SAP Crystal Reports enables staff members to visualize information and gain deeper insights into data using bar graphs, funnels, histograms, and line, bubble, radar, or area charts. Administrators can configure role-based access rights and utilize single sign-on (SSO) capabilities to ensure user and data security. It allows team members to embed images and bar codes within reports to optimize data analysis and visualization processes. The application also lets employees format content and generate pixel-perfect letters, invoices, sales reports, statements, loyalty cards, and promotional campaign analysis.
SAP Crystal Reports allows organizations to use standard access protocols to connect the platform with several external data sources and databases, such as SAP HANA, MS Access, IBM D2B, MySQL, JDBC, and MS Excel. The user interface can also be configured in multiple languages, such as English, Japanese, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, and Danish.
Images
Not sure about SAP Crystal Reports?
Compare with a popular alternative
SAP Crystal Reports
Starting Price
Pricing Options
Features
Integrations
Ease of Use
Value for Money
Customer Service
Alternatives
NetSuite
Tableau
EZMaxInsight
Grow
Reviews
Already have SAP Crystal Reports?
Software buyers need your help! Product reviews help the rest of us make great decisions.
- Industry: Retail
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
-
Review Source
Overall rating
- Value for Money
- Ease of Use
- Customer Support Software
- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Best Reporting Tool
Reviewed on 01/02/2021
Crystal Reports has become our essential tool for the day to day business life. It is compatible...
Crystal Reports has become our essential tool for the day to day business life. It is compatible with many databases.
Pros
Fully customizable Report tool suits for the entire company. Even without an expert in programing Crystal Report can be used to deliver decision-making reports. Very easy configuration with MS SQL, MS Access, and much more other databases.
Cons
Could not notice any big cons up to now.
- Industry: Fund-Raising
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
-
Review Source
Overall rating
- Ease of Use
- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Powerful and easy to use
Reviewed on 12/03/2019
I love working with it and when I retire, I am going to come back as a Crystal Reports programmer. ...
I love working with it and when I retire, I am going to come back as a Crystal Reports programmer. :)
Pros
I love how I can take data from our database and present it in a pleasing way for our users. I have been using Crystal Reports for almost 20 years and find it very powerful. I can build a report very quickly and a few simple format changes and make it look professional. I developed a program to run a series of reports with parameters passed from the program. I can do our month end process in minutes instead of running 100 reports one at a time. So it is great for creating a report and easy to add to a .NET program to be run automagically. Pretty cool!
Cons
It can be time consuming to build a complex report with lots of formulas. Not a fault of the software. Just the process is long at times when you have over 100 formulas. It would be nice if there was a feature where you could easily clone a formula and then change it quickly for each situation. Although, maybe in a newer version of CR this might be possible.
- Used Daily for 2+ years
-
Review Source
Overall rating
- Value for Money
- Ease of Use
- Customer Support Software
Reporting system is comprehensive, but difficult to use.
Reviewed on 26/07/2018
Pros
The ability to customize reports is helpful.
Comprehensive. The system has the ability to report on many aspects of business.
Cons
Difficult to learn report writing requirements.
Trial and error yields unproductive data reporting.
Once parameters are established for requests, downloading data fields is sometimes slow.
- Industry: Oil & Energy
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
-
Review Source
Overall rating
- Ease of Use
- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
A Reporting tool that does it jobs with no frills
Reviewed on 15/04/2022
A good reporting tool for small and medium sized companies, though the new generation reporting...
A good reporting tool for small and medium sized companies, though the new generation reporting tools like Tableau can replace this, the crystal reports are cost effective and efficient.
Pros
simple and cost effective
tight integration with sap
easy deployment and scalability
Cons
user interactiveness on report designs, lacks ease of use for end users to build reports of their own.
- Used Daily for 2+ years
-
Review Source
Overall rating
- Value for Money
- Ease of Use
- Customer Support Software
- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
It generates the reports needed, but with a somewhat dated interface
Reviewed on 16/07/2018
Pros
Connects to SQL and it gets the data as needed, and with the right formulas and know how, you can customize the reports to your liking get as specific as you need.
Cons
Dated interface and not the most user friendly. If you have never used it, getting it set up and running might be a little confusing, but if you know some basic SQL, you can make it do what you need.
SAP Crystal Reports FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for SAP Crystal Reports.Q. What type of pricing plans does SAP Crystal Reports offer?
SAP Crystal Reports offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: €479.00
- Free Trial: Available
SAP Crystal Reports is available at $495.
Q. Who are the typical users of SAP Crystal Reports?
SAP Crystal Reports has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does SAP Crystal Reports support?
SAP Crystal Reports supports the following languages:
Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish
Q. Does SAP Crystal Reports support mobile devices?
SAP Crystal Reports supports the following devices:
Q. What other apps does SAP Crystal Reports integrate with?
SAP Crystal Reports integrates with the following applications:
Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, Pivotal Greenplum
Q. What level of support does SAP Crystal Reports offer?
SAP Crystal Reports offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base Software, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat
Related categories
See all software categories found for SAP Crystal Reports.
