Crystal vs. IBM Initiate

Crystal

5 Reviews and Ratings

IBM Initiate

1 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Crystal	Score 6.6 out of 10	Small Businesses (1-50 employees)	Crystal, launched in 2020 by co-founders Michael Razny and Joel Steinbaugh, is a cloud-based inventory, point-of-sale, and jewelry store management platform. It aims to displace generic retail point solutions and antiquated jewelry management software owners have struggled with for decades. Crystal gives independent jewelers inventory management capabilities with custom attributes linked between transactions, clients and accounts. The iOS…	N/A
IBM Initiate	Score 6.0 out of 10	N/A	Initiate Systems was acquired by IBM in 2010, their master data management platform became IBM Initiate.	N/A

Pricing

Crystal

IBM Initiate

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Pricing Offerings
Crystal	IBM Initiate
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup Fee

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No setup fee

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User Ratings
	Crystal	IBM Initiate
Likelihood to Recommend	7.3 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Crystal	IBM Initiate
Likelihood to Recommend	Crystal All of our applications server in the new company that we bought are windows based, despite that there are other alternative to build the report and dashboard, it is something that has worked wonder for us, apart from it is only available in Windows and indexing data that might eat the resource, I still see the application as one of the major player for reporting Verified User Anonymous Read full review	IBM No answers on this topic
Pros	Crystal Consolidate data from several data sources Low to no code report generation Configurable Verified User Anonymous Read full review	IBM No answers on this topic
Cons	Crystal This is bound for Windows OS, hard to find similar alternative on other OSs Be careful in Indexing your data, as it will consume resources Verified User Anonymous Read full review	IBM No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	Crystal We tried to explore other options but we didn't explore other options too long as it will risk our business process and business outcome, as what we want from the processes in both reports and dashboard are giving us a satisfactory result, so familiarity is why we still using it till today and some foreseeable future Verified User Anonymous Read full review	IBM No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	Crystal Without the application, our lending business will be in complete stop, as our applications are wrote in Windows based We are processing 300 Loans/Month, taking it as $10000 per loan, having this not working properly will cost potential $150.000 revenue Verified User Anonymous Read full review	IBM No answers on this topic
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