Crystal Reports offers a variety of reporting options for your organization.
February 17, 2017

Crystal Reports offers a variety of reporting options for your organization.

Josel Harrison | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with SAP Crystal 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.
  • Extracts data which can be compiled and analyzed.
  • Combines various data sets into useful reports on demand.
  • Writes the SQL statement for the user making building reports simpler.
  • I honestly cannot think of a single recommendation I can make to improve this product.
I have used SQL Server Management Studio and Microsoft Access to produce some similar reports. I am not a big fan of Access but I did have good results from Management Studio. The databases I am querying against now seem to work well with Crystal Reports and I have found it to be very reliable so that is what I use primarily to get the data I need.
This software is very useful for users who have one or more databases utilized by their organization which need specific reports created in order to pull data out. Crystal Reports is a complicated software product that does require training for use. Once the program is fully understood it is very powerful and useful for extracting data as needed.

SAP Crystal Feature Ratings

Pixel Perfect reports
10
Customizable dashboards
10
Report Formatting Templates
10
Drill-down analysis
10
Formatting capabilities
10
Report sharing and collaboration
10
Publish to Web
10
Publish to PDF
10
Report Versioning
10
Report Delivery Scheduling
10
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
10
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
10
Predictive Analytics
Not Rated
Multi-User Support (named login)
Not Rated
Role-Based Security Model
Not Rated
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
Not Rated
Responsive Design for Web Access
Not Rated
Mobile Application
Not Rated
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
Not Rated