Crystal Clear Formatted Reports in Secure environment with sharing/distribution capabilities.
December 01, 2020

Crystal Clear Formatted Reports in Secure environment with sharing/distribution capabilities.

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Score 9 out of 10
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Software Version

SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise

Overall Satisfaction with SAP Crystal

All the divisions where the need of formatted reports was there, i.e. in HR departments to get the complete detail of an employee for all past performances indicators, hikes, travel opportunities, PII data or be it on the floor of manufacturing company. In real time replication of data , details of Sales Order/Purchase Orders or internal material movement order were printed in the highly formatted way using Crystal reports detailing each entity/price or other nuance of the type of report it was. Dynamic text of logged in the system was printed in some cases when movement for item was restricted by only some authorized persons so that Security guards can easily check and catch the unwanted movement of product.
  • Highly formatted reporting capabilities.
  • Pixel oriented perfect reporting for printing.
  • Embedding of dynamic images/logo or barcodes for customized reports.
  • Easy to share with other users.
  • Dragging and dropping the elements into the canvas to fit in pixels is sometime difficult.
  • Exporting the report in Excel looses formatting.
  • Learning curve of Crystal is difficult for consultants as it's a bit tricky for data connections.
  • High Positive ROI was generated as it saved time of Operations team for managing daily formatted reports.
  • Transfer of goods high formatted reports details objects based upon Sales Order/Purchase Order was easy and security could easily check authorization based upon forms.
  • A formatted printable report which could also be shared over generated easy and hassle free work environment.
SAP Crystal Reports contains all the reporting capabilities of the above peer technologies. There is not a single capability of the above tools which is not available in Crystal report. But Crystal being an offering SAP fares and performs best for SAP integrated source systems. Even it also provides seamless connectivity from data sources.

Do you think SAP Crystal delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with SAP Crystal's feature set?

Yes

Did SAP Crystal live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of SAP Crystal go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy SAP Crystal again?

Yes

The purpose of SAP Crystal report was to provide a crystal clear formatted reporting capabilities to Enterprises for there very often printable need for presenting various financials/operational report or HR Analytics of Individuals. The tool has fared well in all use cases and living up to customer expectations in market currently.
SAP Crystal report is very supportive in daily need of reports or any organization. Basic functionality of operational reports detailing the Sales Order details or PO in a manner which can be used very easily. A readily available solution for delivering any customized need in terms of pixelated reporting can be met easily with the tool.
If your organization is needing such a data intelligence solutions where in data reported is important but the way it is presented is also highly important, without even thinking one should go for SAP Crystal Reports. This tool is capable of providing pixel perfect formatted reports giving a very crystal (justifying its name) clear insight of the information represented in form of data. The reports can easily contain company logos/dynamic images or text as per reporting requirements.
Only in case where you need row columns based reporting where you can see data in excel like formats you should not go for SAP Crystal Reports.

SAP Crystal Feature Ratings

Pixel Perfect reports
10
Report Formatting Templates
10
Drill-down analysis
9
Formatting capabilities
10
Report sharing and collaboration
8
Publish to Web
10
Publish to PDF
10
Report Versioning
8
Report Delivery Scheduling
10
Delivery to Remote Servers
9
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
9
Multi-User Support (named login)
10
Role-Based Security Model
9
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
9
Single Sign-On (SSO)
10
Responsive Design for Web Access
8
Mobile Application
8
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
8
Javascript API
9
Java API
9
Themeable User Interface (UI)
9
Customizable Platform (Open Source)
8