Alteryx vs SAP Crystal | TrustRadius

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Score 8.6 out of 10

Based on 170 reviews and ratings

Score 7.8 out of 10

Based on 505 reviews and ratings

Feature Rating Comparison

Alteryx

SAP Crystal

Pixel Perfect reports

Customizable dashboards

Report Formatting Templates

Alteryx

SAP Crystal

Drill-down analysis

Formatting capabilities

Integration with R or other statistical packages

Report sharing and collaboration

Alteryx

SAP Crystal

Publish to Web

Publish to PDF

Report Versioning

Report Delivery Scheduling

Delivery to Remote Servers

Alteryx

SAP Crystal

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

Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

Predictive Analytics

Alteryx

SAP Crystal

Multi-User Support (named login)

Role-Based Security Model

Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

Single Sign-On (SSO)

Alteryx

SAP Crystal

Responsive Design for Web Access

Dedicated iOS Application

Dedicated Android Application

Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

Alteryx

SAP Crystal

REST API

Javascript API

iFrames

Java API

Themeable User Interface (UI)

Customizable Platform (Open Source)

Pros

Alteryx does a great job of allowing more beginner Analysts to automate many of their routine process but also allowing advanced Analysts to ability to leverage deep statistical modelling for predictive analytics.
Given the visual workflow nature of Alteyrx, the learning curve is not steep.
The Alteryx Gallery allows non-technical consumers to execute complex workflows by leveraging an intuitive web interface.
Alteryx allows data scientists to bring their own programming language to Altyerx, such as R or Python.

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Verified User

Director in Information Technology

Health, Wellness and Fitness Company, 10,001+ 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

Sometimes the desktop version of authoring tool crashes! It's been unstable in the previous versions but gets better. Even if it doesn't crash, it used to be slow or not responding.
When running several version of database drivers in local machine or server, it is tricky to set up database connections. Often you have to figure out it by googling the problem and solution. There are not many knowledge bases from Alteryx.
Alteryx project file creates .bak file automatically. It is useful to prevent for the purpose of back up, sometimes it's not necessary. But it is not changeable for some reason. By default, it always creates backups.

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Project Manager in Research & Development

Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ 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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Business Development Manager

MEDIAPAKT ASMarketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Alteryx 6.5

Based on 14 answers

We've developed a working partnership with Alteryx. As an enablement suite, we're continuing to innovate and deliver great products with use of Alteryx in our solutions. Alteryx use expands to our global product development teams and is in use in multiple parts of our organization. Alteryx also delivers Experian demographic content to other clients in their product offering. We're highly likely to renew, but that decision is way above my pay grade.

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Director, Technology Services

ExperianInformation Technology and Services, 5001-10,000 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

Alteryx 9.5

Based on 4 answers

I found it very easy to use very quickly. Part of it had to do with the training I received from Alteryx and the other part was how intuitive the tool is out of the box. Highly recommended for analysts especially ones with little code experience. Helpful to build basic code skills.

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Verified User

Analyst in Customer Service

Logistics and Supply Chain Company, 1001-5000 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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Reliability and Availability

Alteryx 10.0

Based on 2 answers

I use many programs and compared to others, Alteryx virtually never goes down, freezes up or gives an application error. Over a 4 year time period that I have used this program, any of these may have happened 3 times. It is an incredibly stable program that I feel completely confident in.

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Manager, Market & Competitive Insights

Office DepotBusiness Supplies and Equipment, 10,001+ employees

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SAP Crystal 8.0

Based on 1 answer

No answer on this topic is available.

Support Rating

Alteryx 9.0

Based on 6 answers

Good support, but could have used more when installing the server. Had a minor issue for a long time that took a lot of work to resolve. Other than that, there has been a lot of free training especially when brining on new designer license holders. Support is good overall.

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Analyst in Customer Service

Logistics and Supply Chain Company, 1001-5000 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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Verified User

Administrator in Finance and Accounting

Retail Company, 11-50 employees

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Implementation Rating

Alteryx 10.0

Based on 2 answers

There is really not much to it (the installation, that is). Once you get it installed, along with any of the add-ons (demographics, R, etc.), you are up and running almost immediately. There is really no additional setup. You can immediately begin blending data, running demographics, performing spatial queries, running predictive analysis, etc. And for many of these functions, the learning curve is quite easy.

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Manager, Market & Competitive Insights

Office DepotBusiness Supplies and Equipment, 10,001+ 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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System Administrator

North South Supply IncWholesale, 11-50 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Talend is primarily for data integration and has quite advanced capabilities. But the user has to be more technical. Alteryx makes the process simple and any user can make use of its features.Tableau was a good choice for data visualization. We needed beautiful charts and ways to represent data. Alteryx falls short in this aspect.

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Sanket Bharaswadkar

Process Analyst

HoneywellWarehousing, 10,001+ 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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Verified User

Employee in Corporate

Telecommunications Company, 10,001+ employees

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Return on Investment

Alteryx does an excellent job of integrating consumer and spatial data to calculate and visualize things like locations within a certain drive-time radius.
For visualization purposes I had to move the data to excel for some decent graphs.
It can become very expensive.

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Engineer in Research & Development

Education Management Company, 11-50 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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Assistant Vice President

HSBC Commercial BankingFinancial Services, 10,001+ employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Alteryx Editions & Modules

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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

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