SAP Crystal Reports

Reports creation tool for small to midsize businesses

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.


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  • Industry: Retail
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • 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.

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  • Industry: Fund-Raising
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • 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.

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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.

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  • Industry: Oil & Energy
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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SAP Crystal Reports offers the following pricing plans:

  • Starting from: €479.00
  • Free Trial: Available

SAP Crystal Reports is available at $495.

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

SAP Crystal Reports supports the following languages:

Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish

SAP Crystal Reports supports the following devices:

SAP Crystal Reports integrates with the following applications:

Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, Pivotal Greenplum

SAP Crystal Reports offers the following support options:

Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base Software, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat

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