The SAP® BusinessObjects™ Business Intelligence Platform provides users with ad hoc queries, reporting, data visualizations, and analysis tools. Its integrated, unified infrastructure aims to offer scalability from one-to-many tools and interfaces on-premise, in the cloud, or as a hybrid approach.
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SAP Crystal
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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 BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
SAP Crystal
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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
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SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
SAP Crystal
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* 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.
When we get the installation of the SAP BO BI Platform done on one of the BO servers, we get a whole of stacks of SAP BO BI suite tools installed. This is a package that has reporting tools inside it. For instance, web intelligence-rich clients, SAP Crystal reports, etc. We can …
I had to choose between Tableau, Birst and BO. I liked BO over these as the features like derived tables, merge dimensions, context operators are not there in other tools.
The biggest advantage that SAP Business Objects has over these competitors are value and options. Value wise, it brings together a tool set that delivers a bit of something for everyone. With integration into Microsoft Office, additional options are available to for those …
I have used Data Stage; plug and play extractors help to fetch data from SAP CRM/ECC. It reduces the ETL job design efforts. I have used Tableau, the SAP dashboard provides more options in designing legends on charts, in-built hide/show features in charts.
It connects to MS office, XML and other data sources and if you're interested more in reporting, SAP Business Objects is the way to go. If you have a large company with a big budget, and you’re looking for a highly scalable BI tool that integrates with a number of applications, …
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 …
Comparing Crystal to another SAP offering, Business Objects is currently our ad-hoc and general reporting tool. I design the visualizations and meta-data layers that the general user population can consume without much of a learning curve. Business Objects is robust enough to …
It is not really easy to make a comparison with the other competitors' software, I think that every software is appropriate for your needs, certainly SAP Crystal Reports has a few gaps, and if you choose it as a final product it is because it allows you to change down to the …
We use other SAP BI products and Crystal is the one that provides the pixel perfect formatted reporting and integrates the best with our SAP ERP system in a real-time fashion.
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 …
When we evaluated several options, we found SAP Crystal Server to be more reliable than some of its competitors. We wanted something that we could customise to use in several departments and for all different types of situations where reports would be useful. We also use other …
SAP Crystal Reports is great because it is easy to use (once you learn the program) and the possibilities are endless. We also use some other programs as well as SAP Crystal Reports for some additional reports and related visuals. We went to SAP because of the possibilities of …