Item: SAP Crystal
Rating: 8
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I used SAP Crystal for report visualization. The graphs in the tool are outstanding with strong information telling ability combining with tables and images. Apart from the graphs, it is designed to be very interactive so you can drag and drop directly to control and tailer the shape of the graph to your needs.

Pros and Cons

Integration
Connection

Hard initial setup
Unstable

Return on Investment

Easy export into PDF
Standard tool

Alternatives Considered

Qlik Sense, Tableau Desktop and Microsoft Power BI

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 Tableau is quite high.

Other Software Used

Microsoft Power BI, Tableau Desktop, Qlik Sense

Likelihood to Recommend

SAP Crystal is suitable to connect with a single source of data such as ODBC, XML, Excel, etc. but it has difficulty when you try to connect different sources of data at the same time through this channel. Some other tools might be more usable in that situation such as Qlik that I reviewed before.

Decent reporting tool

Software Version

Overall Satisfaction with SAP Crystal