Airtable vs SAP Crystal

Likelihood to Recommend

Airtable is an incredibly powerful tool for basic spreadsheet tasks used in your departments, especially if those spreadsheets are being shared and used by multiple departments. It's a better designed spreadsheet, [compared to] what Excel and Google Sheets offers. [It] has multiple view options so that each team can see the data in the way that makes the most sense for their team.

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Adam Montgomery

Energy Efficiency Account Manager

TRC Companies, Inc.Renewables & Environment, 51-200 employees

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SAP Crystal is well suited for data analysis, customized report creation, and formatting. It is a pixel perfect reporting system having the ability to create scorecards and helps in data mining. It supports multiple languages which is a breeze for global organizations. It may prove to a roadblock when the learning curve is fast in the organization having high employee turnover.

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Team Lead in Manufacturing

Biotechnology Company, 501-1000 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Airtable

SAP Crystal

Task Management

Resource Management

Gantt Charts

Scheduling

Workflow Automation

Team Collaboration

Support for Agile Methodology

Support for Waterfall Methodology

Document Management

Email integration

Mobile Access

Timesheet Tracking

Change request and Case Management

Budget and Expense Management

Airtable

SAP Crystal

Pixel Perfect reports

Customizable dashboards

Report Formatting Templates

Airtable

Customizable Platform (Open Source)

Pros

Airtable has the best customization features out there. They allow you to customize you spreadsheets or tables in a variety of formats. They allow you to customize a variety of field types, field sizes and various colors.
Airtable has a great collaboration feature that makes it easy to share and grant access to tables and a variety of information.
Airtable has great compatibilities that allows you to directly upload spreadsheets from excel into a customizable table.
Airtable is easy to teach and understand quickly, and does not take time for someone who is not technically advanced to understand

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Consultant in Marketing

Marketing and Advertising Company, 11-50 employees

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Crystal Reports allows us to create a consistent template for all of our reports.
Crystal Reports and Server allows us to house a repository for all of our reports to make them easy to find and update when necessary.
Crystal Reports can connect to a wide variety of data sources.
Crystal Reports can be a little daunting when first implementing. There are a lot of nuances in learning how to truly master this software and it can be frustrating at times.

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Analyst in Information Technology

Construction Company, 10,001+ employees

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Cons

Pricing model: we don't like how we have to pay per user.
Calendar view: we wish the calendar view was better, or if there were different types of calendar views. Right now there is just one.
Complicated: some parts of the app are a little complicated.

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Brian Chung

Co-Founder, Business Director

Alabaster CoReligious Institutions, 1001-5000 employees

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The export of reports to Excel is very cumbersome and the results are difficult to format.
The design of reports and the graphical features (e.g. charts) feel quite rigid.
The learning curve for a non-programmer is incredibly steep, making Crystal a specialty tool.

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Frank Hunt

Business Development Manager

MEDIAPAKT ASMarketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Airtable 10.0

Based on 2 answers

We will 10/10 renew the use of Airtable because it has brought great value to our team. Not only is Airtable affordable, but it's also user-friendly and helps our team be efficient. We no longer need to rely on Excel spreadsheets being passed from person to person via email. Furthermore, we aren't dealing with corrupt Excel spreadsheets and the need to salvage data when a file is accidentally altered.

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Manager in Marketing

Biotechnology Company, 1001-5000 employees

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SAP Crystal 10.0

Based on 19 answers

We have been using this product for so many years and it has truly become a cornerstone to our business processes when it comes to developing and distributing information via reports. We currently have over 500 reports developed to date over about 30 systems and that will continue to grow as user needs change.

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Project Manager in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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Usability

Airtable 8.7

Based on 21 answers

It's such a friendly program to use, and there's just so many resources available to people trying to learn it or build new things. Their support is great, and they make it easy to find answers to your questions. It's easy to use but difficult to master, that might be a better way to put it.

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Director in Marketing

Marketing and Advertising Company, 1-10 employees

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SAP Crystal 8.8

Based on 27 answers

The interface of SAP Crystal will be very familiar to most users as it follows the same text-based WYSIWYG interface as many other commonplace software. The build-in plugins, adapters and middleware to common data sources makes it rather easy to pull data for visualization and reporting. However, when dealing with less structured data, some more work needs to be done

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Employee in Research & Development

Education Management Company, 51-200 employees

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Support Rating

Airtable 8.0

Based on 58 answers

We find support easy to find, responsive and knowledgeable. In addition to a large selection of well-done help articles and webinars, there is a forum with quick support coming from Airtable staff and other users. We haven't had any issues in getting the information and support that we've needed.

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C-Level Executive in Corporate

Computer Software Company, 11-50 employees

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SAP Crystal 7.0

Based on 20 answers

The support community can be difficult to navigate. I've also run into issues with my login. The SAP system has a bizarre mechanism for validating users that requires users to have what is called an S-ID. A basic ID may not give you access to all the features in the portal. The limitation may include not being able to perform a simple task like downloading patches and updates. This isn't a big deal for single user license but for teams it can be a pain.

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Nathan Patrick Taylor

Clinical Informatics Consultant

Symphony Post-Acute NetworkHospital & Health Care, 1001-5000 employees

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In-Person Training

No score

No answers yet

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SAP Crystal 10.0

Based on 1 answer

Trainer was patient and thorough in going through the basics and willing to answer questions by email after the initial training

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Administrator in Finance and Accounting

Retail Company, 11-50 employees

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Implementation Rating

Airtable 9.0

Based on 2 answers

Training all users was an important part of the implementation, which did take considerable time and effort. At first glance without training, the content calendar can be overwhelming because of the amount of data. The features within Airtable seem to be endless but our team was able to identify the most important to be successful.

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Manager in Marketing

Biotechnology Company, 1001-5000 employees

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SAP Crystal 8.8

Based on 14 answers

Just like any other implementation: When designing the differing reports, get end users' input, make sure to design the reports so that they display the information that the company requires, in the best and clearest way possible.

Test, test, test, revise when needed, and, particularly, do sufficient training so users are comfortable using Crystal Reports!

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John Suit

System Administrator

North South Supply IncWholesale, 11-50 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Airtable combines the simplicity of a spreadsheet with the possibilities that come with a database, all within one tool. We have chosen it after a short evaluation. It is incredibly easy to use after a short training, making it a great tool compared to the typical spreadsheet-based apps.

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Adam Farrell

Digital Marketing Manager

NoradaneMarketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees

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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.

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Employee in Corporate

Telecommunications Company, 10,001+ employees

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Return on Investment

The ROI is simple: Airtable has created a more efficient workplace. We have fewer meetings, certainly. But any meetings we do have are much more efficient and impactful. Everyone walks in having used Airtable to prepare for the meeting (uploading needed docs, etc.), and the meeting is held using Airtable as the agenda. Airtable is updated and continues to be used after the meeting, so everyone stays on the same page.
Airtable also makes planning events much more streamlined. Contracts, rental agreements, rosters, etc. are uploaded. Dates are set with reminders. People know what they are responsible for planning the event and for what role they will play during the event.

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Tyler Collum

Corporate Director Of Human Resources

Duke HospitalityHospitality, 201-500 employees

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It is a decent buy for specific departments in terms of reporting capabilities but updates and cost (frequent) demands are higher with the benefits offered.
So long as the requirements are not ever changing, with scheduling functionality, it's a handsome tool.

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Rohit Narang

Assistant Vice President

HSBC Commercial BankingFinancial Services, 10,001+ employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Airtable Editions & Modules

Edition

Plus	$10.00¹
Pro	$20.00¹
Enterprise	Contact Sales

per month (billed annually)

Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

Optional

SAP Crystal Editions & Modules

Edition

SAP Crystal Reports 2020 64-Bit	$495¹
Upgrade Version to SAP Crystal Reports 2020	$295¹
SAP Crystal Reports 2016 32-Bit	$495¹
SAP Crystal Server 2020 1 NUL	$869²
SAP Crystal Server 2020 5 CAL	$8,744³

per single user license
per user license + first year maintenance to be added
5 concurrent users + first year maintenance to be added

Additional Pricing 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.

Rating Summary

Airtable

SAP Crystal

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SAP Crystal

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SAP Crystal

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SAP Crystal

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Likelihood to Recommend

Airtable

SAP Crystal

Feature Rating Comparison

Task Management

Resource Management

Gantt Charts

Scheduling

Workflow Automation

Team Collaboration

Support for Agile Methodology

Support for Waterfall Methodology

Document Management

Email integration

Mobile Access

Timesheet Tracking

Change request and Case Management

Budget and Expense Management

Pixel Perfect reports

Customizable dashboards

Report Formatting Templates

Drill-down analysis

Formatting capabilities

Integration with R or other statistical packages

Report sharing and collaboration

Publish to Web

Publish to PDF

Report Versioning

Report Delivery Scheduling

Delivery to Remote Servers

Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)

Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

Predictive Analytics

Multi-User Support (named login)

Role-Based Security Model

Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

Single Sign-On (SSO)

Responsive Design for Web Access

Dedicated iOS Application

Dedicated Android Application

Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

REST API

Javascript API

iFrames

Java API

Themeable User Interface (UI)

Customizable Platform (Open Source)

Pros

Airtable

SAP Crystal

Cons

Airtable

SAP Crystal

Likelihood to Renew

Airtable

SAP Crystal

Usability

Airtable

SAP Crystal

Support Rating

Airtable

SAP Crystal

In-Person Training

Airtable

SAP Crystal

Implementation Rating

Airtable

SAP Crystal

Alternatives Considered

Airtable

SAP Crystal

Return on Investment

Airtable

SAP Crystal

Screenshots

Airtable

SAP Crystal

Pricing Details

General

Free Trial