SAP Crystal

Score7.6 out of 10

556 Reviews and Ratings

What is SAP Crystal?

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.

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Business Intelligence (BI)

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Customizable dashboards
Customizable dashboards are dashboards providing the builder some degree of control over the look and feel and display options.
Category average: 8.5
Report Formatting Templates
Category average: 8.1
Drill-down analysis
Drill down analysis is the ability to get to a further level of detail by going deeper into the hierarchy.
Category average: 8.4

Customizable Platform (Open Source)
A customizable, open source API Gateway is a fast and scalable type of API
Category average: 7.7
Javascript API
A Javascript API is a type of API
Category average: 8.3
Java API
A Java application programming interface (API) is a list of all classes that are part of the Java development kit (JDK)
Category average: 8.1

Nitin Phansalkar View profile

Owner in Information Technology at SME Focus Solutions (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use SAP Crystal Reports to create management reports in web apps. For developer like me it is a convenient reporting tool as it integrates well with Microsoft Visual Studio. For my clients it offers various output formats like PDF, Excel spreadsheet etc.

Pros

SAP Crystal integrates well with Microsoft Visual Studio so development is easier.
It accepts data in different open formats like XML so it can be used with wide range of data sources like databases or web services or web APIs outputting data in XML format.
A wide variety of reporting formats like List, Cross-Table, Master-Child etc. can be designed. Fields can be formatted in a variety of data formats like Date, Currency etc. Grouping, Summary, Calculated fields can also be added.

Cons

Installing process needs to be more user-friendly. It takes a lot of time. Finding the correct version extension for Visual Studio is harder than you think.
Since it's an old and evolved product, it's stable and complete; however, this has caused it to become bulky and slow in the runtime.
"Help" material is not organized properly. You have to search the community pages if you are using some advanced feature like conditional formatting.

Return on Investment

Being an early mover in web reporting it was a de-facto tool for reporting. But now with other players coming in, it has lost that competitive advantage.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Progress Telerik

Hitesh Gautam View profile

Cloud engineer in Information Technology at Insight (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I work in a cloud based organization. I work with health care clients. I used SAP Crystal for reports generation. I used SAP Crystal for creating and distributing reports for my clients business related data giving insights about their health related data whether related to revenue,doctors,patients,medicines and so on. Also within my organization it facilitated reports creation giving infor. About our regular tasks such as billing reports,shifts etc.

Pros

Regular report refresh scheduling
Various data connectors
Advanced calculative reports

Cons

Better product marketing
Swift UI enhancements
Source control management

Return on Investment

Training required as nagative
Highly formatted reports positive
Less scalable nagatives

Usability

Other Software Used

Microsoft Power BI, Azure SQL Database

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SAP Crystal reports are used for securing Real-time data based on templates, This works very handy for managing facilities. And provide an efficient way to make decisions and have an edge to make decisions quickly. This provide a low to no code way to implement reporting functionalities. More over with some extra efforts we can also integrate it with an IIS server using .NET or Scripting langaugaes.

Pros

Attachment and integration to Database with similar structure
Utilize Views effectively in relational DB
Easy implementation with C# applications

Cons

More Precise highlighting to errors in formulas
Better hints for alignment
UI of Reports can be more Suggestive

Return on Investment

Positive ROI
Works well with communication with Stakeholders
Helps in making decisions quickly

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Bravo Reporting and ClearReports

Other Software Used

Slack, Autodesk Fusion, Autodesk Civil 3D

Jenny Miranda View profile

Executive Services Administrator in Manufacturing at Proulx Manufacturing Inc. (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Proulx Mfg has utilized SAP Crystal for our reports for several years; We can appreciate SAP personalization to customize the data our company requires from our platforms which helps target root cause issues by easily using selected parameters that SAP reporting tools provide by showing our financial tools, inventory data, and company performance even at a standard or customization level SAP Crystal Reports is a great insight to our company demands for managing data with ease.

Pros

Accessible data within our company network
Easy to personalize data and report parameters
Works seamless with our database servers

Cons

Sorting edit grid data
designing seems limited at times
imaging doesn't always load up to size

Return on Investment

Our company relies on SAP for our reporting needs and couldn't imagine the impact without having this product
SAP Crystal has primary added value into our presentation reports
Our company appreciates that SAP is end user friendly to novice and advance users

Abdul S. Usmani View profile

IO Cloud Solutions Lead in Information Technology at ConocoPhillips (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

Aggregations
Output in various formats
Multiple data sources
Summarizing data

Cons

Maybe a little bit more easy to drag and drop/WYSIWYG capability

Return on Investment

Improved response times for operations
Summarized totals allow for quicker decision making

Other Software Used

TIBCO Spotfire, Microsoft Power BI

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Customizable dashboards

Report Formatting Templates

Drill-down analysis

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Customizable Platform (Open Source)

Javascript API

Java API

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