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Microsoft Power BI

1,906 Reviews and Ratings

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556 Reviews and Ratings

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Microsoft Power BI

    Score8.6 out of 10
    		N/AMicrosoft Power BI is a visualization and data discovery tool from Microsoft. It allows users to convert data into visuals and graphics, visually explore and analyze data, collaborate on interactive dashboards and reports, and scale across their organization with built-in governance and security.

    $10

    per month per user

    SAP Crystal

    Score7.5 out of 10
    		N/ASAP Crystal is an analytics and reporting software solution for SMBs. SAP Crystal comprises Crystal Reports for pixel-perfect reporting, and SAP Crystal Server for automated distribution and self-service access to reports, dashboards and data exploration.

    $295

    per single user license

    Pricing
    Microsoft Power BISAP Crystal
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Upgrade Version to SAP Crystal Reports 2020
    $295
    per single user license
    SAP Crystal Reports 2020 64-Bit
    $495
    per single user license
    SAP Crystal Reports 2016 32-Bit
    $495
    per single user license
    SAP Crystal Server 2020 1 NUL
    $869
    per user license + first year maintenance to be added
    SAP Crystal Server 2020 5 CAL
    $8,744
    5 concurrent users + first year maintenance to be added
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Microsoft Power BISAP Crystal
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details—* SAP Crystal Reports 2020 Viewer allows you to view static data within a SAP Crystal Reports file. * SAP Crystal Reports 2020 - Full version allows you to create powerful, richly formatted, and dynamic reports from virtually any data source, delivered in dozens of formats, in up to 28 languages. If you already have an older version of Crystal Reports, buy a license for SAP Crystal Reports 2020 - Upgrade at a discounted, upgrade price. * SAP Crystal Server 2020, 1 NUL includes 1 license of: SAP Crystal Reports 2020 - SAP Crystal Server 2020. * As an add-on to SAP Crystal Server 2020 1 NUL, SAP Crystal Server 2020 5 CAL allows you to support a wider, intermittent audience of end users, up to five logged on at the same time.
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    Community Pulse
    Microsoft Power BISAP Crystal
    Considered Both Products
    Microsoft
    Scott Herring
    Database Support Specialist in Information Technology at Lehigh Career & Technical Institute (Education Management, 201-500 employees)
    Chose Microsoft Power BI
    I have worked with Crystal Reports, and while Power BI has many strengths over Crystal, Crystal is still the gold standard and my fall back application when I need certain functionality in our environment. This may be a temporary issue as Microsoft has shown committment to …
    Incentivized
    jim paroly
    Freelance Photographer in Research & Development at j. paroly photo (Graphic Design, 1-10 employees)
    Chose Microsoft Power BI
    Microsoft's Power BI is what Excel graphing and pivoting should have been like. Power BI has much better ways to look at your data visually than you can with Excel's own tools. You can select from many built-in graph types or you can use the growing number of add-ons to get …
    Incentivized
    SAP
    Verified User
    Chose SAP Crystal
    For standard pixel perfect reporting, our company still uses Crystal Reports. It allows us to continually provide standard reporting to our clients. For dashboards, we are moving towards Microsoft Power BI. Power BI allows similar collaboration, but generally has better …
    Incentivized
    Akhilesh Arya
    Assistant Professor at Geetanjali Institute of Technical Studies, Udaipur (Higher Education, 51-200 employees)
    Chose SAP Crystal
    SAP Crystal reports are generally in more formatted way where you can design header according to your requirements and data will be fetched from the data source accordingly. According to my analysis this is the only thing when required i'll be happy to use SAP Crystal report …
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose SAP Crystal
    Qlik is better in terms of reading data from different sources but it doesn’t have the auto doc ability like SAP Crystal Tableau. It is a decent visualization tool but doesn’t have the same ability in terms of rendering output reports into a suitable format. Plus the cost of Tab…
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose SAP Crystal
    For automating documents and reports, I personally believe there is no better solution. However, for the sheer fact, it can't compare/combine two sources, I'd recommend pairing it with another BI tool. For example, Qlik, whereby you can create dashboards and compare multiple …
    Incentivized
    Tom Fragale
    Sr. Consultant and Sr. Corporate Trainer in Information Technology at The PC Guy Consulting, INC (Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees)
    Chose SAP Crystal
    PowerBI is starting to replace Crystal Reports. PowerBI is a Microsoft tool. It also brings different types of data in to the same report. PowerBi allows for more data types than Crystal does. Crystal Reports allows you to create formulas easier than PowerBI does. I am very …
    Incentivized
    Vivian Pereira
    Manager, Enterprise Reporting in Information Technology at Perrigo Company plc (Pharmaceuticals, 10,001+ employees)
    Chose SAP Crystal
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    Incentivized
    Andrey Perepelitsyn
    Microsoft SQL Server DBA in Information Technology at DBI (Information Technology and Services, 201-500 employees)
    Chose SAP Crystal
    More visualization options than PowerBI has, we are using PowerBI as well as it works better for non-relational big data sources. Less complex than SSRS and more flexible at the same time. Native support for SAP HANA databases makes SAP Crystal the best choice for this cases. …
    Incentivized
    Chandrabhan Singh
    Assistant General Manager in Engineering at Airports Authority of India (Airlines/Aviation, 10,001+ employees)
    Chose SAP Crystal
    SAP has a very sophisticated environment. It is very good to provide interaction in between different teams. I work in communications and to interact with air traffic control there is a good amount of interaction when using SAP. What I feel is that if you have an SAP database, …
    Incentivized
    Himanshu Singh
    Product Manager in Product Management at ANS Commerce - E-commerce Solutions for India (Internet, 11-50 employees)
    Chose SAP Crystal
    Due to its bigger brand and excellent user support, it is better than many competitors. If you have huge organization support, then operating it will make your reporting system much better. Otherwise, you might need better employee support for operating it. Otherwise, the whole …
    Incentivized
    Richard Bird
    ERP Administrator in Information Technology at Aligned Solutions Consulting, LLC (Plastics, 201-500 employees)
    Chose SAP Crystal
    Other than Crystal Reports the only other reporting software I have used is SSRS Report Builder. While it is very possible to do anything in SSRS Report Builder, Crystal Reports just feels like a more mature product, with more obvious features for complex report building. On …
    Incentivized
    Jaap Maartens
    Senior Consultant Financial Services in Finance and Accounting at PwC (Financial Services, 10,001+ employees)
    Chose SAP Crystal
    As already stated, some businesses may find SAP Crystal Reports too expensive. While there are cheaper alternatives, it will all depend on your business' specific needs which product to choose. Another factor to consider is, what is the product, the majority of your clients is …
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose SAP Crystal
    SAP Crystal Server was chosen because of the scheduled reports capabilities that it had and because we were happier with the end look of the reports. We found the reports that are obtained with SAP Crystal Server easier to interpret than some what some of the other BI programs …
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Microsoft Power BISAP Crystal
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Microsoft Power BI and SAP Crystal
    Feature
    Microsoft Power BI
    8.8
    140 Ratings
    SAP Crystal
    9.3
    121 Ratings
    Pixel Perfect reports8.5120 Ratings8.0110 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards10.0140 Ratings10.097 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates8.0128 Ratings10.0114 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Microsoft Power BI and SAP Crystal
    Feature
    Microsoft Power BI
    8.2
    140 Ratings
    SAP Crystal
    9.6
    133 Ratings
    Drill-down analysis7.0139 Ratings10.0114 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities9.0138 Ratings10.0132 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages8.0103 Ratings8.662 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration9.0135 Ratings10.0117 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Microsoft Power BI and SAP Crystal
    Feature
    Microsoft Power BI
    8.6
    134 Ratings
    SAP Crystal
    9.4
    133 Ratings
    Publish to Web8.0129 Ratings9.288 Ratings
    Publish to PDF9.0122 Ratings10.0130 Ratings
    Report Versioning9.0102 Ratings9.092 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling8.0104 Ratings9.095 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers9.074 Ratings10.052 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Microsoft Power BI and SAP Crystal
    Feature
    Microsoft Power BI
    8.7
    136 Ratings
    SAP Crystal
    8.0
    87 Ratings
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)9.0131 Ratings7.650 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization8.0122 Ratings8.574 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics9.0102 Ratings7.841 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Microsoft Power BI and SAP Crystal
    Feature
    Microsoft Power BI
    8.6
    127 Ratings
    SAP Crystal
    8.6
    86 Ratings
    Multi-User Support (named login)9.0121 Ratings7.879 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model9.0102 Ratings7.778 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)10.0111 Ratings8.478 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control7.01 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)8.394 Ratings9.038 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Microsoft Power BI and SAP Crystal
    Feature
    Microsoft Power BI
    8.0
    117 Ratings
    SAP Crystal
    8.4
    62 Ratings
    Responsive Design for Web Access8.0111 Ratings8.760 Ratings
    Mobile Application7.793 Ratings7.643 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile7.7112 Ratings9.057 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Microsoft Power BI and SAP Crystal
    Feature
    Microsoft Power BI
    8.4
    80 Ratings
    SAP Crystal
    6.9
    43 Ratings
    REST API8.072 Ratings7.48 Ratings
    Javascript API9.956 Ratings6.035 Ratings
    iFrames8.055 Ratings7.18 Ratings
    Java API8.046 Ratings6.035 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)8.163 Ratings8.337 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)8.444 Ratings7.031 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Microsoft Power BISAP Crystal
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (142 ratings)
    10.0
    (155 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (19 ratings)
    Usability
    7.9
    (58 ratings)
    9.5
    (28 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (53 ratings)
    8.6
    (21 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.8
    (14 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    8.5
    (82 ratings)
    8.8
    (124 ratings)
    Data Sources
    9.0
    (81 ratings)
    9.2
    (129 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)