Name: SAP Crystal Reports
Rating: 4.2 (166 reviews)

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Product Information on SAP Crystal Reports

Updated 13th October 2025

What is SAP Crystal Reports?

SAP Crystal Reports is a software designed for creating, designing, and generating reports from a wide range of data sources. The software enables users to build custom reports with features such as templates, formulas, and visualizations including charts and graphs. It supports integration with various databases and allows export of reports in multiple formats. By facilitating data analysis and presentation, the software helps organizations transform raw information into structured reports for operational and strategic decision-making. SAP Crystal Reports addresses the business problem of accessing, formatting, and distributing data in a way that supports informed business practices.

Overall experience with SAP Crystal Reports

Data Analyst

<50M USD, Software

FAVORABLE

“For that specific analyst in the team who wants to create pixel perfect reports”

4.0

Feb 13, 2026

Whilst this product is on prem only and hasn't transitioned to a cloud application it still has some excellent features which make it a very usable product that is easy on the eye. Its hard to scale up and deploy purely because it is an on prem product only but if used by the analyst in the team that it can work just fine

SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT

30B + USD, Healthcare and Biotech

CRITICAL

“SAP Crystal Reports- Thing of past?”

3.0

May 29, 2023

SAP Crystal reports is a cool software solution for reporting needs of small and medium businesses. It is effective for business operations involving sales, purchase orders. It is pretty good with customization which makes it alot easier to use.

About Company

Company Description

SAP was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Walldorf, Germany. The company employs over 105,000 people globally and develops software solutions for enterprise resource planning (ERP) and related business functions. SAP’s early products, SAP R/2 and SAP R/3, were widely adopted for managing core business processes. Its current ERP platform, SAP S/4HANA, uses in-memory computing to support data-intensive operations and integrates capabilities such as artificial intelligence and machine learning. SAP offers a portfolio of software applications that support various business functions across industries. These applications are designed to operate on a unified digital platform. As of 2025, SAP reports over 230 million cloud users and provides more than 100 solutions. The company’s offerings are used by organizations to manage finance, human resources, procurement, supply chain, and other operational areas.

Company Details

Company type

Public

Year Founded

1972

Head office location

Walldorf, Germany

Number of employees

10001+

Annual Revenue

30B+ USD

Website

http://www.sap.com

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SAP Crystal Reports Likes & Dislikes

The ability to connect to data sources really easily and exploit data from these and then produce pixel perfect reports where you can input filters and create different tabs with ease of use

Automated report generation. Ability to connect to various data sources. Customization

Easy to work with, easy to access tables and fields of the connected database. Can make many types of reports with many customizations.

The deployment is cumbersome and takes time. In the world of SaaS products this feels like it is so behind the times which is a shame as the product should be used by more analysts

Formatting. Better training of resources. No updates post implementation

Running totals can be tricky at times, Speed of which the data is returned can lag on occasion. There should be a tool that recommends table links based on the type of data returned.

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Recommended Gartner Insights

<50M USD

Software

Review Source

For that specific analyst in the team who wants to create pixel perfect reports

APPLICATION SPECIALIST

50M-1B USD

Transportation

Comprehensive Functionality Allows Creation Of Diverse Reports With Ease Of Use

5.0

Aug 22, 2025

Great reporting tool, easy to use and has lots of functionality

Database Developer

1B-10B USD

Manufacturing

Crystal Reports Simplifies Static Reporting

Jul 31, 2025

Crystal Reports handles static, automated reporting needs, but is limited for more complex, dynamic

IT Busineess Application Developer

Energy and Utilities

Navigating the Potent but Complex Crystal Reports Software

Feb 11, 2025

In my experience with Crystal Reports, at the beginning it was a bit complicated to create and design the reports, but after I learned how to use the tool I was able to take advantage of its full potential.

ASSISTANT MANAGER

SAP Crystal Report: A Comprehensive Solution for Professional Business Reporting

Jan 24, 2025

SAP Crystal report is a professional business reporting platform where we can create reports on the basis of various data from various sources like Excel, Salesforce, MySQL and more. it creates a visusally appealing professional reports by using various available templates, data charts, tables, etc. it works on drag-and-drop functionality, which makes it easy to use and understand. We can also use custom formulas and export reports in PDF, Excel, Word, and HTML.Overall, a very good tool for professional reporting.