SAP Crystal

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
SAP Crystal	Score7.5 out of 10	N/A	SAP 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

SAP Crystal

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

Pricing Offerings
SAP Crystal
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes

Optional

* 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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	SAP Crystal
Considered Both Products	SAP 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 Helpful? Verified User Chose SAP Crystal SAP Crystal Reports contains all the reporting capabilities of the above peer technologies. There is not a single capability of the above tools which is not available in Crystal report. But Crystal being an offering SAP fares and performs best for SAP integrated source systems. … Incentivized Helpful? Mary Wanjiku System Analyst in Information Technology at SUCAFINA (International Trade & Development, 201-500 employees) Chose SAP Crystal Good user interface. Friendly with financial reporting. Reliable with intergration and ease of use. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SAP Crystal Qlik Sense and Qlik View are all good tools and provide similar views and analyses like SAP Crystal. However, SAP Crystal is quite easy to use and more intuitive for people who have no background with coding and cloud-based tools. The ability to automate generating and sending … Incentivized Helpful? Gene Baker Vice President, Chief Architect, Development Manager and Software Engineer in Information Technology at WySTAR Global Retirement Solutions, a Wells Fargo Company (Financial Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose SAP Crystal We found that Crystal was a little more intuitive to our team members than the other products. All of the products were excellent choices but we liked the ability to code stored procedures to gather our data. While each product has very similar features, we went with … Incentivized Helpful? 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 Helpful? Yoni Dvorkis Lead Data Scientist in Information Technology at Atrius Health (Hospital & Health Care, 1001-5000 employees) Chose SAP Crystal We've had SAP Crystal for about ten years at this point. We've never really evaluated any alternatives since, as of today, well over 400 reports are being generated in the system, and we've yet to consider switching to a competing product. Incentivized Helpful? 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 Helpful? Verified User Chose SAP Crystal We originally purchased Crystal as it aligned with our vendors' recommendations for reporting. We have since started to focus our development on more self-service and dashboard-type tools (like QlikView, Qlik Sense, and similar). These tools are more mature and capable than … Incentivized Helpful? Jesus Chacon Software Support Engineer in Engineering at Vexilo (Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees) Chose SAP Crystal We develop our desktop applications in Visual Studio IDE, we use SQL Server as a database engine, and the reports are managed by SAP Crystal since it does not limit us when it comes to displaying data. It supports all kinds of information from images and graphics. Incentivized Helpful? 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 Helpful? Miguel De La Garza Rodriguez IT Manager in Information Technology at DIMECA (Automotive, 501-1000 employees) Chose SAP Crystal Fully integrates into SAP B1 menus, it is the only reporting tool that fully integrates with B1 client, otherwise if you dont run SAP you can have all the reporting power and run reports from the crystal report viewer tool but you will not have menu like reports and you … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SAP Crystal As I stated in the previous question, the SQL Server reporting engine provides necessary scheduling services to allow for employee self-service. It also supports granular security, based upon active directory, to control who can see which report. SAP Crystal is still superior … Incentivized Helpful? Frank Hunt Business Development Manager in Marketing at MEDIAPAKT AS (Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees) Chose SAP Crystal Crystal offered a more straightforward implementation for our situation. While Tableau offers well-designed reports, the overall functionality regarding data manipulation and analysis is behind Crystal. Incentivized Helpful? Rohit Narang Assistant Vice President in Finance and Accounting at HSBC Commercial Banking (Financial Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose SAP Crystal Our requirements were static in nature and we had a bias for SAP due to the availability of skilled in-house resources. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SAP Crystal I tried using Cognos, but I found trhat I prefered Crystal Reports because it does not require you to set up a meta data layer before setting up your reports. That is a real time saver for me. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SAP Crystal Crystal reports is useful in case we want to import data from data base . We can write queries in it but Google Charts require to be implemented in our application using code so crystal reports is better than Google Charts. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SAP Crystal For now, our team is not using any tool but we are looking for other easily learned tools to minimize our tasks more. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SAP Crystal I didn't make the decision in terms of selecting the software for the department. However, SAP Crystal is a great tool for a medium size department to increase their efficiency. There might be a different software on the market but I haven't used any similar software except … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SAP Crystal We actually have all 3 in place and all 3 are used in different situations. Some are bundled with certain products so we continue to use them. Others such as BI from Microsoft are stand alone and allow for easier data visualizations than SAP Crystal does. We chose SAP Crystal … Incentivized Helpful? Damien Dolan Business Analyst Developer in Information Technology at Silberline (Chemicals, 501-1000 employees) Chose SAP Crystal We didn't so much evaluate them as use them side by side. Crystal was already here so we didn't replace it or think to replace it. We just added other programs that do things better. Both Power B and Dynamics are good at visualizing data in charts. Crystal is the workhorse Incentivized Helpful? Dell Stinnett-Christy Senior Manager, Data & Analytics Practice at Protiviti (Management Consulting, 1001-5000 employees) Chose SAP Crystal I have done a little bit in Microsoft SSRS and a bunch in SAP Web Intelligence (Webi). Both of those are good at what they do. Like Crystal, SSRS is more technical. Webi is great for quick ad-hoc reports or data analyses. But with Crystal I can easily do things like … Incentivized Helpful? 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 Helpful? Matthew Dempsey Especialista en ventas y marketing in Marketing at Parques Reunidos (Leisure, Travel & Tourism, 10,001+ employees) Chose SAP Crystal SAP Crystal offers more flexibility and has more tools and functions than every program I've ever tried! Incentivized Helpful? Vivian Pereira Manager, Enterprise Reporting in Information Technology at Perrigo Company plc (Pharmaceuticals, 10,001+ employees) Chose SAP Crystal na Incentivized Helpful?
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Features

SAP Crystal

Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of SAP Crystal
Feature	SAP Crystal 9.3 121 Ratings
Pixel Perfect reports	8.0110 Ratings
Customizable dashboards	10.097 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates	10.0114 Ratings

Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of SAP Crystal
Feature	SAP Crystal 9.6 133 Ratings
Drill-down analysis	10.0114 Ratings
Formatting capabilities	10.0132 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages	8.662 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration	10.0117 Ratings

Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of SAP Crystal
Feature	SAP Crystal 9.4 133 Ratings
Publish to Web	9.288 Ratings
Publish to PDF	10.0130 Ratings
Report Versioning	9.092 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling	9.095 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers	10.052 Ratings

Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of SAP Crystal
Feature	SAP Crystal 8.0 87 Ratings
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)	7.650 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization	8.574 Ratings
Predictive Analytics	7.841 Ratings

Comparison of Access Control and Security features of SAP Crystal
Feature	SAP Crystal 8.6 86 Ratings
Multi-User Support (named login)	7.879 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model	7.778 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)	8.478 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control	10.01 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)	9.038 Ratings

Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of SAP Crystal
Feature	SAP Crystal 8.4 62 Ratings
Responsive Design for Web Access	8.760 Ratings
Mobile Application	7.643 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile	9.057 Ratings

Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of SAP Crystal
Feature	SAP Crystal 6.9 43 Ratings
REST API	7.48 Ratings
Javascript API	6.035 Ratings
iFrames	7.18 Ratings
Java API	6.035 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)	8.337 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)	7.031 Ratings

User Ratings
	SAP Crystal
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (155 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (19 ratings)
Usability	9.5 (28 ratings)
Availability	8.0 (1 ratings)
Performance	8.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	8.6 (21 ratings)
In-Person Training	10.0 (1 ratings)
Implementation Rating	8.8 (14 ratings)
Configurability	8.0 (1 ratings)
Data Sharing and Collaboration	8.8 (124 ratings)
Data Sources	9.2 (129 ratings)
Ease of integration	7.0 (1 ratings)
Product Scalability	7.0 (1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	8.0 (1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	7.0 (1 ratings)

SAP Crystal

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