Crystal Reports review
July 19, 2018
Crystal Reports review
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
SAP Crystal Reports
Overall Satisfaction with SAP Crystal
It is being used to generate reports from several different databases and systems. Reports can be created by integrating different systems to support a more robust model.
- SAP Crystal lets us integrate different systems, databases and helps generate better reports.
- SAP has a good UI/Graphical interface that is very presentable.
- It has API's for several other programs and functions to improve efficiency.
- It has limited GIS functionality.
- GIS is one area which can be improved.
- A business user cannot leverage CR; it takes the skill of an experienced CR developer- which drives up the cost.
- Security is built into the report itself, so when you need a report for two different audiences, the developer must modify the security settings for each report. This results in work duplication.
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. SQL server had other usages including reporting. It was a powerful tool but had limited APIs to integrate with other software.