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: Computer Software
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Dynamic and Interactive Reports
Reviewed on 04/10/2018
If I need dynamic, impressive reports, SAP crystal reports is very flexible and offers many...
If I need dynamic, impressive reports, SAP crystal reports is very flexible and offers many solutions to various requirements
Pros
1. Depending on the report requirements, Crystal reports has great capabilities to allow you to create all kinds of reports. You can place images, forms etc using OLE.
2. It allows a user to define multiple data sources, making it flexible when transferring to different platforms.
3. It allows a user to conditionally suppress sections within the report which enables certain parameters to be checked in certain sections of the report.
4. It enables the drill-down feature which allows the final user of the report to drill down further within a report to view more specific details.
5. It can do complex queries and allows a user to incorporate SQL statements in a flexible manner.
6. A user can create sub-reports, group selections and easily format various sections of the report in order to achieve different requirements.
7. It allows format parameters to be used easily and flexibly e.g. one item on the report can be bolded and displayed in italics due to specified parameters.
8. Supports different types of data sources e.g. HANA, MS SQL, Excel etc
Cons
1. For a new user, it might be challenging to create new reports and one might not fully utilize most of the features.
2. Graphical features such as charts are not as enhanced as in other reporting tools.
3. Development of complex reports might take a bit of time depending on the user's experience level
4. When you export a report created with crystal reports to excel, there is a lot of distortion depending on the excel format. It will take a lot of trial and error and eventually, the data on the report is hard to edit on excel.
5. It might crash often after a software update.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
A wonderful tool for the generation of reports.
Reviewed on 13/12/2018
I use SAP Crystal Reports to generate different statistics about the problems and requests in the...
I use SAP Crystal Reports to generate different statistics about the problems and requests in the technological area of the company, allowing to customize each report based on the characteristics and hierarchy of the end users.
Pros
What I like most about this software is that it allows you to quickly transform any data source into interactive and relevant content for different users. Also integrates design, modification and visualization capabilities in different types of applications such as .NET, Java or COM and
allows end users to access and interact with reports through different means such as Web portals, mobile devices and Microsoft Office documents. In general, it is an incredible tool for the generation of different types of reports, providing the option to widely customize each of them.
Cons
Given the amount of tools and options that it offers, its handling is sometimes a bit complex, especially for users with little technical knowledge.
- Industry: Banking
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 1.0 /10
Crystal Reports
Reviewed on 17/01/2020
I would not recommend using this product as it is extremely old and outdated.
I would not recommend using this product as it is extremely old and outdated.
Pros
There is nothing about this product that is useful. It may have been a good reporting tool before, but there are many other products out there now that would be better to use.
Cons
It is a very convoluted and tricky system to figure out how to use, it takes forever to figure out how to use. It is very old school and inundated.
- Industry: Hospital & Health Care
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Useful Tool once you know how to use it
Reviewed on 20/03/2019
I use Crystal Reports a ton. I have tons of reports scheduled to provide end users with statistics...
I use Crystal Reports a ton. I have tons of reports scheduled to provide end users with statistics and patient data. It makes everyone's jobs easier.
Pros
Crystal Reports lets you create custom reports that allows you to extract data that you need. It is a great tool to drill down to a certain level when you have a large pool of data. I love the fact that you can schedule Crystal Reports through BI, and have them emailed or saved to a network folder.
Cons
It isn't always intuitive. Creating formulas can be tricky and some of the functions and operators don't work as you would logically expect them to. Creating a report can be very time consuming.
- Industry: Oil & Energy
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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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.
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
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