SAP Crystal Reports Erfahrungen

Really effective and professional

Kommentare: This is the traditional reporting tool that is used in many financial organizations. I have used SAP Crystal Reports 12 in my organization. We can design highly formatted reports using this tool. It can connect to multiple data sources such as ODBC, OLE DB etc. We can create reports with different formats such as pdf, csv, txt, xls, etc. We can also create html, xml reports. The price of this tool is also cheap. We can create detailed graphics, instrument panels.

Vorteile:

There are some written exercises based on SAP Crystal Report that facilitate learning. the integration with the different IDE of development are optimized. it is compatible with the most popular database administrators, MYSQL, SQLSERVER, POSTGRESQL. and more... The designer of Crystal is fantastic, drag and drop add-ons to create your report.

Nachteile:

I had a lot of problems and spent a lot of time trying to adjust the space between the rows. I hope that in the future, SAP Crytal Report will make it easier. should block the sizes of pre-established and blocked sheets to avoid leaving the margins.

Revolutionized my daily tasks

Vorteile:

Crystal Reports allowed me to streamline my inventory refresh ordering and my custom ordering process into a single automated report. After setting reorder points in for all of my stock items I was able to get instant reports that tell me when I need to order and avoid stock outtages. At the same time each day, I run my report, save it as an excel file and forward to my production facility!

Nachteile:

Steep learning curve, but it is worth it. There is also a dependency on having good clean source data. Crystal Reports may actually point out some shortcomings in your source data and create more work short term.

SAP Crystal Reports ...not so good

Vorteile:

fast loading software but with big limitations in editing multiple files at the same time and in the management of embedded graphics

Nachteile:

unfriendly interface and difficulties in debugging and creating complex reportsdifficulty managing embedded images and field management logic to review compared to competitive products

Crystal Reports Review

Kommentare: Best class application to build reports , easy and with great features , One of my best development tool

Vorteile:

Lots of features , using it from years and made 500+ reports , simple loving it Can connect many different databases and support connection providers supports sub reports , drill down reports and Hyperlink Conditional formatting and Reports wizards It's fast and never hangs Good support even with integration with Microsoft tools used for creating dashboard , charts

Nachteile:

I think it needs some kind of subscription features like SSRS It's little time consuming to format and align tables ,texts ,lines

One of the Best Business Intelligent Reporting Tools for SME's

Kommentare: Crystal Reports helps us have a more detailed look of our company and helps us make informed decisions on what we need to do to improve various components of our business.

Vorteile:

I like that Crystal reports have a very strong capabilities like sorting of data. You are also able to retrieve most of your company' data for analysis using the tool. Crystal reports helps us create highly formatted and detailed reports - much more that what we are able to get from the SAP Business One software itself. Another awesome thing about Crystal reports is that it is that the process of creating reports is easy once you get used to the mechanisms of the tool. For example, once you pull a certain aspect of a specific set of data, yo can reuse it and only change a variable according to your new needs. Crystal Reports are also pretty affordable for small and medium sized companies.

Nachteile:

Though the initial purchase of crystal reports can be quite affordable, the tool gets expensive when you need to buy the server which is quite costly but essential for scheduled notifications and other benefits.

it makes easy to make reports as its features are very user friendly and easy to understand

Vorteile:

I used crystal report with Peoplesoft ERP and with Java also .When I compare crystal report with another report application I found it is much batter because of user friendly features for example there is no need to write manual sql just need to give table mapping it creates sql from itself.It gives option to open report in pdf and excel or in which form client want reports.No need to spend time to write so much code as many logic and feature is already present you just need to drag on your report.For me crystal report is fun with code where you design as per your require but no need take tension behind design.

Nachteile:

in crystal report it is little bit difficult to do mapping between two different different database's table.if you do also many time it will not give correct data.

My organization uses Crystal Reports as a primary reporting tool for our Oracle 12c database.

Vorteile:

It is difficult to make a sophisticated tool like Crystal Reports intuitive, but once you know the layout of how to add and view tables and links, it is quite easy. There is a lot of flexibility as well.

Nachteile:

There were some hick ups when we upgraded to Oracle 12c, but this could be because we were not using the most current version of Crystal Reports.

Great reporting system!

Vorteile:

Crystal reports are a great way to see your data in many different ways. Customization is fairly easy with some training.

Nachteile:

We have always had an issue with our reports reconciling to our system. They take some training to get them set up correctly.

Useful tool if you need to process data from a DB and present them in various ways in reports.

Vorteile:

The Crystal is used in my laboratory to generate the calibration certificates that are delivered to the clients with each team. It allows a great configuration both of appearance and of manupulation and access to databases where all the data is saved. It is really a useful and powerful tool and that can be used with little training, reading the manuals of the software.

Nachteile:

The software allows you to do many things as you know more about SQL and the like. It is necessary to learn a little about the operation of the DBs to squeeze the potential of the Crystal

Top of the line reporting tool

Kommentare: Robust and good looking reports for all areas of my business and clients

Vorteile:

This report writer is extremely easy to use. It provide good looking reports that are robust and allow easy integration into my visual studio applications. The ease of programming with crystal's api base gives me full control of how my reports are to behave without having to pass parameters in to the report.

Nachteile:

API programming on subreports can be tough but once learned, it's not too bad. Also, I found dynamic database connections are tricky due when working in domains. But again, once learned, it is easy to continue

It Is Crystal A Clear Way To Improve Business

Kommentare: overall experience over the last 2 years have been amazing, the grouping, linking, analysis is all industry leading and there aren't many other products that can come close to this.

Vorteile:

the best part about crystal reports is how easy it is to visually design reports, also linking with an SQL Database is amazing, it allows you to connect to the back end of your system and pull through what ever you like whenever you like, you can export the file with the database parameters and take the file with you. its a fabulous tool with 2 decades of usage to back it.

Nachteile:

the biggest con with this, is the price, its very expensive and is only available on a perpetual licence, every time they release a new version you have to pay for the new one. their pricing model is very outdated.

Dynamic and Interactive Reports

Kommentare: If I need dynamic, impressive reports, SAP crystal reports is very flexible and offers many solutions to various requirements

Vorteile:

1. Depending on the report requirements, Crystal reports has great capabilities to allow you to create all kinds of reports. You can place images, forms etc using OLE. 2. It allows a user to define multiple data sources, making it flexible when transferring to different platforms. 3. It allows a user to conditionally suppress sections within the report which enables certain parameters to be checked in certain sections of the report. 4. It enables the drill-down feature which allows the final user of the report to drill down further within a report to view more specific details. 5. It can do complex queries and allows a user to incorporate SQL statements in a flexible manner. 6. A user can create sub-reports, group selections and easily format various sections of the report in order to achieve different requirements. 7. It allows format parameters to be used easily and flexibly e.g. one item on the report can be bolded and displayed in italics due to specified parameters. 8. Supports different types of data sources e.g. HANA, MS SQL, Excel etc

Nachteile:

1. For a new user, it might be challenging to create new reports and one might not fully utilize most of the features. 2. Graphical features such as charts are not as enhanced as in other reporting tools. 3. Development of complex reports might take a bit of time depending on the user's experience level 4. When you export a report created with crystal reports to excel, there is a lot of distortion depending on the excel format. It will take a lot of trial and error and eventually, the data on the report is hard to edit on excel. 5. It might crash often after a software update.

Crystal Report Review from the company Controller

Kommentare: The most difficult problem to overcome is the necessity to be logged into the database in order to run a report.

Vorteile:

Our industry based software comes with a limited scope of canned reports and Crystal has proven to be a great supplemental reporting program. When our software falls shorts, Crystal offers many solutions. Upper level management, executives, and owning partners love how they can drill down into the finite details the Crystal reports can be built to display. And our data analysts use very detailed reports with minimal formatting exported as excel documents to create a plethora of pivot tables and other analytics including profit margin information and auditing information. I also like that the formulas are more similar to excel then other reporting syntax I have used.

Nachteile:

Anyone who has built a Crystal report from scratch can tell you it can be difficult to link tables and other data source issues can cause major problems with the information. Some of this difficulty comes the complexity associated with the software tables linked to the crystal report data source of course... but I do not think the average user can pick up the syntax very easily. And I have found that advanced formatting and cascading parameters can be a major headache.

High Performance Rigid Reporting

Kommentare: Although we have many reporting tools, we rely on SAP Crystal reports for our basic reporting requirements because of it's availability and flexibility. The reporting is very much reliable, quick and dynamic.

Vorteile:

Data Synchronization with different data sources. Using this for a long time, I am quite impressed with the way it performs with different data sources.

Nachteile:

The User Interface is very simple and outdated. It can be made more futuristic.

My review of SAP Crystal Reports

Kommentare: I work with this software every day and personally I think it's a perfect mix between the world of programming and design. It allows us to give a personal touch to everything we do. Perfecting as time goes on. It's how to ride a bike. It makes connections to multiple databases and is very accessible. Very good indeed.

Vorteile:

SAP Crystal Reports is one of the tools I most enjoy working with. Sincerely. It's linked to SQL - we can get our signature on a report that looks vulgar - through code. We were able to do 1001 things, and really have a style. It is an art, combined with the fact that it is programming. It is fabulous. I really love working with Crystal - it's my weakness of how good it is.

Nachteile:

Like any software, if the code is too heavy, or if it is a very complex procedure, crashes a little. But nothing special. Tolerable and irrelevant in the case.

Best Business Reporting Tool

Kommentare: My overall experience has been just excellent with this.
Its a complete business solution in market at the time.

Vorteile:

Almost every business application requires reports of their data on daily/monthly basis. They require reports not only in tabular form but also they need visual digrams to analyze performance of their business. As a developer i always use crystal reports to develop complex reports that require charts and grouped data for readability and correct and ultimate analysis. Its easy to develop and connect with underlying datatables. Any kind of complex colored, tabular and visual report can be generated from this.i really love it.

Nachteile:

Its my favourite reporting engine and there is nothing to be liked least about it. I used it from beginning and got fan of it.

Reporting system is comprehensive, but difficult to use.

Vorteile:

The ability to customize reports is helpful. Comprehensive. The system has the ability to report on many aspects of business.

Nachteile:

Difficult to learn report writing requirements. Trial and error yields unproductive data reporting. Once parameters are established for requests, downloading data fields is sometimes slow.

Crystal, commonly used with sql commands

Kommentare: Report writer and user for over 10 years , great product

Vorteile:

Its comprehensive, well know and used across industries so many designers. Basic graphing but robust reporting.

Nachteile:

Could be more user friendly, you need about six months to get good at it

Crystal report is the best tool for reporting agent

Kommentare: So far i have worked with many reporting tools but crystal report make my life easy

Vorteile:

it has asperate server to host the reports basicaly a engine we call the BO Server

Nachteile:

there is no propper way to implement wilth angular, if I am wrong please correct me

Daily Use

Vorteile:

We currently are using the 8.5 version. We are able to use it for almost anything that we can possibly think of with our Oracle software. There isn't too much that we aren't able to filter, twist, and turn to create some sort of report that we are needing. It might take a few minutes to figure out the best way, but we eventually get to something.

Nachteile:

The biggest con that I've come across is the exporting of the data into any Excel format. It seems to not carry over the same formats that we've already set in Crystal Reports. Smaller cons are things like maybe being able to filter the same data selection in more than one way or maybe also offering a "Contains" option.

Crystal Reports - Enterprise version

Kommentare: Having been a user of Crystal Reports 2008 through 2011, I am a big fan of Crystal Reports. We have now migrated to Crystal Enterprise version and there are some big gains and a few misses with this version. The ease of use for beginners is much greater in the Enterprise version. If you are just starting out, the Enterprise version is a nice package. It features drag and drop capability, easy navigation, and plenty of customization for your visualization. There are still some nagging spots that have not been cleaned up, primarily in the formatting areas. Small things like drawing borders or creating grids are more hassle than they are worth. And if you make a small change in the report it could easily throw off your formatting and you will need to touch all those pieces again. However, the power of Crystal Reports makes it well worth the minor annoyances. It delivers a powerful tool for delivering standard visualizations. It packs plenty of power that can satisfy almost any requirement.

Vorteile:

1) Ease of use. 2) Clean and standard reporting. 3) Multitude of ways to deliver your reports. Email, ftp, on demand, etc.

Nachteile:

1) Minor annoyances that can crop up out of nowhere; typically involving formatting. 2) For as mature as the product is, it still tends to crash more often than I would like.

Crystal reports

Vorteile:

I have to say this is a great product only thing is you need to take competency classes or a guide book to be really proficient in it. There so many great features and capabilities in crystal report. I use it to digest excel as a data base and create beautiful visual reports. They're useful in this application.

Nachteile:

To be efficient you need some kind of formal training or education. A guidebook is effect but really need hands on training to create formulas and arguments to create meaningful reports.

Daily user of Crystal Reports

Vorteile:

I am the administrator of our ERP system which supports Crystal Reports. I use it primarily for modifying reports and creating labels. Most of my learning has been self taught. It's very easy to use and has great resources.

Nachteile:

The only issues I have had is trying to figure out which barcode fonts I need to use. Once I figure it out though it's very easy.

Make your data look beautiful

Vorteile:

CR makes your data stand out and give it the polish it needs to make business decisions. Sometimes its the presentation of data that makes decision maker make that leap of faith.

Nachteile:

I can be a bit difficult to learn but there are tools and training to help bridge that gap.

Very professional and precise

Kommentare: I have used SAP for a little over a year and though it has its cons I’m satisfied with its offerings. It really helps with keeping track of reports and that does it for me.

Vorteile:

Let me first mention the design of this program, it is really nice. I love that files can be dragged and dropped, which makes it easy to maneuver. I also love that is is a good collaboration tool and works well with some other softwares like Excel, Access among others. It is fully customizable and I love that.

Nachteile:

There are still some functions that need improvement. Some of the graphs have some limitations like changing marker sizes or formatting numbers on axis.