SAP Crystal Reports Pros and Cons

It's a powerful report tool with a sometimes counterintuitive design process, follows a ribbon region approach

It can report across a multitude of databases like MS SQL, MySQL, sqlite, Oracle via JDBC, ODBC, ADO etc.

basic reporting is easy but it quickly gets hard once you try more complex reports

was once widely used as an embedded reporting tool with canned reports. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

deployment is hard, you can quickly fall foul of the compatible version requirements

it's mostly Windows based, very poor support for Linux

the licensing is tolerable for small deployments but quickly becomes unaffordable showing the SAP influence

support/training costs are ridiculous. thus many users are under-trained to make the best use of crystal reports

integration becomes a headache when you upgrade databases

doesn't easily connect to Oracle DB's Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

You can manage or edit the form to what the value will appear upon printing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing at all; I'm enjoying using it ,it very usefull Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I like best is its ability to offer a clear and interactive view of reports without needing the full application. it's gui is friendly and provides good visualizations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I dislike the limited interactivity compared to the full software. It's nice foe viewing and perform basic analysis, but it lacks customization and editing features to modify reports. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We use SAP to assign contract review requests received from our business stakeholoders and SAP provides that ease of assining and tracking requests. Through SAP, we can easily access the stage of assigned request and do follow ups with business stakeholders. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

When any reqeust is assigned, we get access link on the email. However, you cannot directly click on the link to access the request as you have to initially login before clicking on the link. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Very flexible way to creat a presentation layer to your data and rinse and repeat as often as you like.

In dealing with very complex HR data as well as data from other sources, you can create and store formulas, sorting, grouping, alternate column titles and then simply get new data and get the same formatting applied.

I have used the tool extensively to combine data for technical analysis as well as parsed data for creating individual PDFs for data presentation with user specific data included.

Works well for simple data presentation to the very complex way you can manipulate with grouping, SQL queries, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is a learning curve both to knowing how to use this tool to it's fullest capabilities but I could say that about many of the common tools such as SQL query and even Excel. Fortunately there are many resources to learn this including Linked In Learning or in person courses.

Some of the most useful tools such as creating groups and moving your groups into the group's footers work really well but to go back and know that was what was done later is not very transparent.

The tool can get behind on some formats it supports - for example once the XLSX format was the preferred format, Crystal took some time before this was available as an export but that was also years ago and they may be better at this currently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This was one of the aps that I used the most of all SAP tools, the interface was very easy to use, you have many options for editing and creating reports, has the ability to join different databases and is very useful because I do not have to use different applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Like most SAP applications, you must have a previous training and support to be able to use the application in the best way since there are different tools that at first sight can be a little difficult to use but after having confidence with the app, it is very useful and fast to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is a very helpful and easy-to-use tool to design or create our business reports. It is also helping us to analyze our data so that we can make good stratergy to make the report more good next time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I'm Using it for my projects. According to me for now, there is nothing to dislike about SAP Crystal. In starting I faced some issues but now I am used to it easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Our business uses SAP Crystal mainly as a embedded product. The programming language and the customizations are very intuitive. We have used this tool for handlng large data, creating customs reports, sub-totals, and categorize that data into tables and graphs. We found that the data source connectivity was very crucial and it worked really well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It does take quiet the effort to learn this tool. We ended up facing lot of problems during deployment. The configuration was not easy to setup. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SAP crystal is the best tool for the report creation and integration for delivery tools to send interactive reports Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is nothing to be disliked about the SAP crystal this is best for small sized businesses Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The best part about SAP Crystal is how well formatted the output is. There are a number of features that can help with the whole data analysis and report making exercise and the customer support is also prompt. It's easy to integrate the data from other softwares which makes it easy to use even by a beginner. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The user interface is a little difficult to navigate through which can be improved upon Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.