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
Tableau Desktop
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Tableau Desktop is a data visualization product from Tableau. It connects to a variety of data sources for combining disparate data sources without coding. It provides tools for discovering patterns and insights, data calculations, forecasts, and statistical summaries and visual storytelling.
$70
per month
Pricing
SAP Crystal
Tableau Desktop
Editions & Modules
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
Tableau Creator
$70.00
Per User / Per Month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
SAP Crystal
Tableau Desktop
Free Trial
Yes
No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Yes
Entry-level Setup Fee
Optional
No setup fee
Additional 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.
Crystal Reports fits a niche for us in standard reporting. We don't use it for creating dashboards or interactive data analysis. That's where Tableau excels. For on-demand reports, we prefer Microsoft Reporting Service and Analysis Services. Crystal Report is very good when it …
SAP Crystal Server stacks up better than Tableau Desktop and Google Charts because we found it was easier to customize and for what we needed it was easier to create the reports. So that is why we went with SAP Crystal Server over the other options that we had considered.
Tableau was a great and user-friendly tool to use for a long time; however, it did not manage various users and their security access very well nor did it provide the level of reporting variation that was necessary at my company. SAP Crystal took some legwork, in the beginning, …
Based on our organization policy we had to use this software. Tableau is also an equally solid software for preparing reports with an upper hand over business users - they don't require any coding experience. As opposed to Crystal Reports, it requires developers to do the work. …
Crystal offered a more straightforward implementation for our situation. While Tableau offers well-designed reports, the overall functionality regarding data manipulation and analysis is behind Crystal.
For automating documents and reports, I personally believe there is no better solution. However, for the sheer fact, it can't compare/combine two sources, I'd recommend pairing it with another BI tool. For example, Qlik, whereby you can create dashboards and compare multiple …
Qlik is better in terms of reading data from different sources but it doesn’t have the auto doc ability like SAP Crystal Tableau. It is a decent visualization tool but doesn’t have the same ability in terms of rendering output reports into a suitable format. Plus the cost of Tab…
Vice President, Chief Architect, Development Manager and Software Engineer
Chose SAP Crystal
We found that Crystal was a little more intuitive to our team members than the other products. All of the products were excellent choices but we liked the ability to code stored procedures to gather our data. While each product has very similar features, we went with …
I found Crystal much more flexible and easier to use for report building than Cognos. Crystal's menu system is similar to Microsoft Word and Excel, so it instantly seemed familiar. I had to do much more hunting in Cognos to modify the properties and formatting of a report. …
I have to use Crystal Reports with our third party software, and it does make the pretty formatting easy, but it's actually less intuitive than the software with less of a GUI.
The presentation level is compatible and is clear and concise. However, there are limits to customize and formatting As a large organization we were required daily to provide reports to our customers for various projects, data and financial information.
SAP has a very sophisticated environment. It is very good to provide interaction in between different teams. I work in communications and to interact with air traffic control there is a good amount of interaction when using SAP. What I feel is that if you have an SAP database, …
Due to its bigger brand and excellent user support, it is better than many competitors. If you have huge organization support, then operating it will make your reporting system much better. Otherwise, you might need better employee support for operating it. Otherwise, the whole …
Excel has some competitive features with Crystal Reports, especially if you have it connected directly with the database, however, it's overall very different. With Crystal, it allows you to enter values before running a report to really compare between different parameters. It …
SAP Crystal Server is exactly what we need for our reporting, both internally and externally, and we consistently use the scheduled reporting option and set up automatic delivery to save us time. These features are the main reason why we decided that this program was the …
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 …
We have a lot of clients who use SAP Crystal Server that we collaborate on reports with and this was a big reason for why we work with SAP Crystal Server. If I had to rate all the other analytics programs that I have worked with against SAP Crystal Server I would rate SAP …
If any changes had to be made to existing visualizations when we used QlikView, a lot of security constraints existed and I had to run to the IT team for every change I had to implement.
Tableau gives easy security change rights to the developer environment.
Excel is the ultimate jack-of-all-trades Swiss army knife approach. You can do almost anything but it is missing much of the polish of dedicated applications of Tableau. Great for the initial approach to a new dataset. I have created some custom Excel macros that go in and run …
I have used SSRS, Crystal Reports, Microsoft Excel, and Business Objects. Tableau offers more functionality than the rest and is pretty intuitive. I think SSRS is the easiest to use. Query speed is excellent with SSRS (at least when you are connected to SQL Server). Microsoft …
Tableau is the only tool that can be exposed to end users so that they can build their reports and dashboards and can publish these without the help of a dedicated developer.
When we eventually looked it up when we realised that it was much better than Crystal reports. It was so much better than Crystal reports there was no real comparison