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What is SAP Crystal?
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.
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What is SAP Crystal?
SAP Crystal Reports and SAP Crystal Server are designed to help users create pixel-perfect, richly formatted, and dynamic reports from virtually any data source – delivered in dozens of export formats, in up to 24 languages. SAP Crystal Reports is a production reporting tool designed to turn almost any data source into interactive, actionable information that can be accessed offline or online, from applications, portals and mobile devices. SAP Crystal Server enables self-service access to
reports, dashboards, and data exploration within a secure infrastructure.
SAP Crystal Features
BI Platform Features
- Supported: Administration via Web Interface
- Supported: Live Connection to External Data
- Supported: Snapshot of External Data
- Supported: OLAP (Pre-processed cube representation)
- Supported: ROLAP (SQL-layer querying)
- Supported: Multi-Data Source Reporting (Blending)
- Supported: Data warehouse / dictionary layer
Supported Data Sources Features
- Supported: MS Excel Workbooks
- Supported: Text Files (CSV, etc)
- Supported: Oracle
- Supported: MS SQL Server
- Supported: IBM DB2
- Supported: Postgres
- Supported: MySQL
- Supported: ODBC
- Supported: EMC Greenplum
- Supported: HP Vertica
- Supported: SAP Hana
- Supported: Teradata
- Supported: Salesforce
- Supported: SAP
BI Standard Reporting Features
- Supported: Pixel Perfect reports
- Supported: Customizable dashboards
- Supported: Report Formatting Templates
Ad-hoc Reporting Features
- Supported: Drill-down analysis
- Supported: Formatting capabilities
- Supported: Integration with R or other statistical packages
- Supported: Report sharing and collaboration
Report Output and Scheduling Features
- Supported: Publish to Web
- Supported: Publish to PDF
- Supported: Output Raw Supporting Data
- Supported: Report Versioning
- Supported: Report Delivery Scheduling
- Supported: Delivery to Remote Servers
Data Discovery and Visualization Features
- Supported: Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
Access Control and Security Features
- Supported: Multi-User Support (named login)
- Supported: Role-Based Security Model
- Supported: Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
- Supported: Report-Level Access Control
- Supported: Table-Level Access Control (BI-layer)
- Supported: Field-Level Access Control (BI-layer)
- Supported: Single Sign-On (SSO)
Mobile Capabilities Features
- Supported: Responsive Design for Web Access
- Supported: Mobile Application
- Supported: Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding Features
- Supported: Javascript API
- Supported: Java API
- Supported: Themeable User Interface (UI)
- Supported: Customizable Platform (Open Source)
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SAP Crystal Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows, Linux |
| Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android |
| Supported Countries | Global |
| Supported Languages | English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Portuguese, Swedish, Polish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Thai, Czech, Hungarian, Slovakian, Turkish, Romanian, Slovenian |
SAP Crystal Downloadables
- Detailed information for SAP Crystal Server 2016’s supported platforms, such as Windows and Linux OS, browser, LDAP and hardware support
- Languages supported with SAP Crystal Reports 2016
- Product features to leverage with SAP Crystal Solutions for the small to midsize business
- Pixel-perfect reports created with SAP Crystal Solutions for small to midsize business
- Business goals to achieve with SAP Crystal Solutions for small to midsize business
- Implementation costs to consider with SAP Crystal Solutions for small to midsize business
- Comparison of features by version for SAP Crystal Reports and SAP Crystal Server software
Frequently Asked Questions
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.
Reviewers rate Customizable dashboards and Report Formatting Templates and Drill-down analysis highest, with a score of 10.
The most common users of SAP Crystal are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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- 8Availability
- 8Performance
- 9.4Usability
- 8.6Support Rating
- 10In-Person Training
- 8.8Implementation Rating
- 8Configurability
- 7Product Scalability
- 7Ease of integration
- 7Vendor pre-sale
- 8Vendor post-sale
- 7Data Visualization
- 9.2Data Sources
- 8.8Data Sharing and Collaboration
- 8.5SAP Crystal Pixel-Perfect Reporting
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January 08, 2018
Crystal Review
SAP Crystal Reports is used in my organisation as a reporting tool mainly in the operational team across different markets. It is usually used for external reporting and invoicing. SAP Crystal Reports is used for the good degree of customisation and elegance in the finished report product. For invoicing, it helps us to have professional external reporting.
January 08, 2018
Deploy and be amazed
Crystal Server is used company wide to distribute data to internal and external users. It allows the organization to automate its reporting and distribution processes, elevating the stress these process put on internal staff and allowing the company to be much more efficient in delivering on both external and internal demands for information.
January 08, 2018
Crystal Reports - your Real-Time SAP ERP Reporting Solution
Crystal Reports is used as a foundation for our external financial reporting, including balance sheets, income statements, and other special reports. We have used it to create inventory reports out of SAP ERP, operational reporting, and master data governance. For our EAM group, it has reduced backlogs, provided real-time visibility into our ERP system, and ensure good data governance
December 20, 2017
SAP Crystal Reports - a better way to get personalized reports.
I found SAP Crystal Reports to be better in formatting. Inter-team functionality got a structured form of data sharing. There is an interactive UI also on the mobile version. I found it useful since it comes with huge handling capacity and with very simple functionality. SAP always does wonder with their products. It has a great foundation in technology.
December 19, 2017
SAP Crystal Reports - Best in formatting, sharing BI reports
I use SAP Crystal reports for my BI Reporting tool. My organization is hugely data dependent. I needed a tool to support the reports and accurate data. In SAP Crystal Reports, I found a good product to use for my BI team. The support is very good, being a product from SAP. I enjoyed using it.
December 12, 2017
Analysing SAP CR.
SAP Crystal Report always helped me to create the best report of daily work, track data, create best graph representation etc. Connecting it with databases make it more helpful to get data, represent it, analyze it easily as a graphical representation. One can create customized design report using it. If you're an expert in it, you can use its abundant feature also.
We use Crystal Reports to pull data and reports. It is used across the organization and it allows the business to evaluate the current state, then we can work on improving it over time. We also use it to graph and come up with visual displays for data instead of using Excel or something less visually impactful.
December 06, 2017
SAP Crystal Reports - easy for the end user
We use Crystal Reports to pull data from our ERP software and create easy to use manufacturing orders for our production and warehouse teams. These reports are used in several parts of our organization but not the entire company. Using Crystal Reports helps our production and warehouse teams with their day to day tasks of creating batches and filling off containers. It also helps our production control team with inventory tracking through our ERP system.
October 17, 2017
My New SAP Crystal Reports Review
Crystal Reports is being used as our ERP system. The reports have been used by the finance, procurement and logistics departments only. I designed and customized the reports in the way my customers wanted [them].
October 06, 2017
SAP Crystal Server – Collaborative reports
SAP Crystal Server is the perfect solution to share advanced BI reports across the organization, and all that from a single point of deploy. We can design simple yet powerful reports. As a senior consultant, I was responsible for making many proposals for customers to acquire SAP Crystal Server. It was successfully deployed in a company where Excel was the main source of reports, and where files needed to be shared across multiple users in order to make a final report.
August 17, 2017
Newbie Review of Crystal Reports
We use Crystal Reports as part of our report writing. It connects well with our EMR database, and acts as a great tool to pull, filter, and analyze data. Whether you're an experienced SQL-guru or have no experience in it, Crystal Reports has a solution for you to help you pull data and analyze it.
August 11, 2017
Review the stars
The whole company used Crystal. We use it as a system to work in tandem with databases, and to provide users with data to allow for thorough and detailed analysis and interpretation. We use it to create detailed and clear reports and presentations, and also use it to generate reports based on information that is collected from virtually any data source.
July 26, 2017
Crystal Reports: A Future Contender?
Crystal Reports was the primary reporting tool for Epicor Vantage 8.03 and Epicor ERP 9. With the release of Epicor 10 while the software still supported Crystal Reports, officially Epicor's primary reporting tool became Microsoft SSRS. Anyone who generated reports out of Epicor did so with the Crystal Reports Runtime. A few power users used Crystal Reports Developer to design or change new or existing reports. Crystal Reports provides one of the primary methods to generate reports out of Epicor.
May 08, 2017
Crystal Reports - An Older Tool that is Still a Great Choice for Non-Bleeding Edge Environments
At my company (Engineer to Order Manufacturing/Capital Equipment) we use Crystal Reports as our primary tool for operational reporting and some executive dashboarding. This is in combination with SAP's Business Objects platform which provides on-demand web delivery as well as batch scheduling of the reports.
Primary resources for report development/maintenance reside in IT (two developers) but there is also a cadre of power users who have been trained to use Crystal. These power users are seeded throughout the organization and are backed up by the IT staff.
Our organization utilizes an overall ERP solution (Oracle's JD Edwards/EnterpriseOne) as well as other packages such as Microsoft's Dynamics CRM, EtQ's Reliance Quality Management system, etc.
Rather than have a separate reporting mechanism native to each application we have chosen to follow a path of using one tool (Crystal) that is capable of working with the data from all of our applications and that can integrate data across applications/databases.
With Crystal/BusinessObjects we deliver information to internal staff as well as deliver information to customers and suppliers.
It provides a means of crafting pixel-perfect forms and reports that support the professional image we strive to convey.
We currently use SAP Crystal Reports primarily with Exact JobBoss as the report writer. All of our custom reporting is done in SAP Crystal Reports. We also utilize it to run reports from MS SQL databases instead of Microsoft's built-in reporting tool. While none of these are heavy duty custom reports we have several customers that require specialized packing slips/invoices that required moderate editing of the standard reports.
I currently use Crystal Reports to develop many ad-hoc reports for executive management analytical and reporting purposes with the administration and finance department. I also use it to develop customized transactional data and trial balance reports that are specifically tailored for the data I want to see and the manner in which I want to see it (customized grouping) which isn't as easily provided for from the accounting system we use.
We use Crystal Reports with Blackbaud's Raiser's Edge; I am the only user, and it is currently only used in the Institutional Advancement office. RE's canned reports are rather limited, and even NXT's analytics are view-only, so the only way to slice and dice our data is outside of the database using Crystal Reports. I've built Solicitor reports showing various information on their assignees, participation reports for various constituencies, financial overviews, and solicitor performance reports. We basically use Crystal Report for almost all of our fundraising reporting needs.
Crystal Reports is used across our organization to interpret data into customized reports. In conjunction with a timer and an odbc I am able to pull data from our ERP softwares and automate their delivery. This allows control down to the smallest detail and data point. Our main ERP software actually comes with a report writing software, but it is insufficient and unwieldy and Crystal allows me to supplement that writer with reports that function and look even better.
February 24, 2017
SAP Crystal Reports for Basic Users
It is being used across the organization to access and disseminate data to end users. It is used for routine reports.
I use Crystal Reports on a daily basis to extract data from various databases. This is required for the assignments within my position. I am the statistician for my department so I produce statistical reports monthly, quarterly and annually. I also extract data specific to open records requests received by my agency as well as specific data for offenses that occur. I use Crystal Reports for various other reports within the agency as requested.
January 09, 2017
Better Reporting, Less Effort
SAP Crystal Server is used throughout our organization, to varying degrees, by all the departments. It is used to generate reports, both ad-hoc reports and scheduled recurring reports, and the information we are able to get from the reports we run with SAP Crystal Server is very important to our decision making.
December 20, 2016
Answeing your reporting business needs the right way
SAP Crystal Reports is used within our company to design and generate interactive reports from many data sources in a short time and generally knowledge of coding isn't required. The application produces smart reporting that supports making financial decisions within our department.
November 15, 2016
Get it done with SAP Crystal Server
In my organisation, we use SAP Crystal Server in the finance and accounting departments to put together reports, and SAP Crystal Server is also used in the logistics and human resources departments to put together reports. The business problem SAP Crystal Server addresses is our need for recurring reports in the various departments.
November 14, 2016
Crystal Clear Reports
The marketing department in my organization uses SAP Crystal Server to run scheduled reports and we are currently working on expending its use to other departments, also to run scheduled reports. The business problems it addresses is our need for recurring reports, especially ones that have real-time data.
November 08, 2016
Great results if you have the knowledge
SAP Crystal Server is used in many departments in our company. I specifically use it in the Engineering department to make sure that our project deadlines are going to be met. I run several reports that help me analyse the progress of the projects, and also to track that the materials that we need to manufacture the projects.