SAP Crystal Reports Reviews

We were dedicated to Crystal Reports, and now they have shifted to SAP reports. While both functionalities are similar, there might be some enhancements or additional features to look forward to in the SAP version. However, I haven't encountered any issues. I've consistently used SAP Crystal Reports in my role at an enterprise infrastructure company named NJESM for the past ten years. During this time, I've downloaded numerous applications that utilize SAP Crystal Reports for creating fixed and interactive reports.

SAP Crystal Reports offers a plethora of features, many of which were available much earlier than in the Crystal Reports we previously used. We extensively use its capabilities for generating general reports, working with Kaspersky data, and even incorporating images into our reports. The range of functions available in SAP Crystal Reports is diverse, and we leverage them across various systems for our needs.                

We use SAP Crystal Reports for reporting.

We use it for financial reports like statements of accounts, trial balances, and other management reports, salary slips, and many other purposes.

The data management and graphs help with decision-making and in our daily routine. We get many benefits from them.

We use SAP Crystal Reports for operational reporting. We have two types of operational reporting. Commercial documents like quotations, order confirmations, delivery notes, and invoices are made in SAP Crystal Reports. We also have listings and operational reports used in our company's commercial or logistic part.

SAP Crystal Reports should provide better support for dynamic connectors. The solution should export reports to Excel in a real Excel format and not in a paper-oriented way. The solution should include an easier multi source integration. It would be nice for the main report to have access to multiple sources.

The solution’s technical support could be improved.

In our company, we use SAP Crystal Reports for designing the layouts, templates, creating the dashboards, and for fixed reports. In short, the tool is used for creating a couple of layouts and reports.

Almost all the features of the solution are good, including its connectivity to the database. Also, JDBC connectivity, performance, data storage capability, the dashboard, its chart capability, and the extensive library of the function are quite impressive about the solution.

We use the solution to run reports. If there is any customization required, We do that.

We can pull the data from different tables in one form from other data like BigData. It is user-friendly and easy to export data.

The ability to connect to most databases, be it Lawson, PeopleSoft, Excel or Access and that is only to name a few. The customization for clients is the absolute favorite feature, not to mention that I can do more formulas and bring in more data than most other reporting software that I have used. This includes using and tying in multiple databases.

With the reports I have created, mostly financial, it gives the business owners an easy way to see how their money is being spent, where it's going to and to see if they are remaining on budget and if not to adjust how they spend throughout the rest of the year. This alone is the single most important factor but not the only one. My clients use my reports for Inventory Control, Payroll and Human Resources purposes as well. All these reports can save a company lots of money if they are used as they are supposed to be.

The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is a fantastic way of generating reports. My only issue with the solution is that it is a bit complicated, though I admit that it is also a very sophisticated product at the same time with which you can do almost everything you want. My only grievance is that the product is not compatible with the latest platforms provided by Microsoft.

SAP Crystal Reports has some compatibility issues with third-party products. If we want to move our software onto a more recent platform using a recent framework, then SAP Crystal Reports won't work on that.