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SAP Crystal Reports

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About SAP Crystal Reports

A robust production reporting tool, SAP Crystal Reports turns almost any data source into interactive, actionable information that can be accessed offline or online, from applications, portals and mobile devices.

Features & Benefits

SAP Crystal Reports software is the de facto standard in reporting. With SAP Crystal Reports, you can create powerful, richly formatted, dynamic reports from virtually any data source, delivered in dozens of formats, in up to 24 languages. A robust production reporting tool, SAP Crystal Reports turns almost any data source into interactive, actionable information that can be accessed offline or online, from applications, portals and mobile devices.

Flexible, Customizable Report Design

Create highly formatted, pixel-perfect reports quickly with SAP Crystal Reports' intuitive design interface and efficient workflows.

Broad data connectivity. Connect to information sources spread across the organization directly. Data sources include: Native, ODBC, OLE DB, and JDBC connectivity to relational, OLAP, Web services, XML, enterprise data sources, and salesforce.com.

  • Flexible reporting: Add flexibility to your reporting with the use of product wizards and parameters.
  • Pixel-perfect documents: Provide pixel-perfect documents and forms with highly formatted contents
  • Embed images and bar codes: Go beyond regular business reports by embedding dynamic images and bar codes.
  • Sharing and exporting: Easily report sharing by exporting data to popular formats

Powerful Report Delivery Options

Deliver personalized reports to your business users' preferred destination in their preferred language and format.

  • User interface in multiple languages: Benefit from a user interface available in up to 28 languages.
  • Define user rights: Manage user rights to access, view, refresh, export, or print reports.
  • Mobile access: Enable mobile access to self-service business intelligence reports.

Expanded Support for Excel

XLSX export takes full advantage of the updated Excel file format by allowing more data to be exported to a single worksheet, without spanning multiple worksheets.

  • Connect to flat files: Connect to flat files like MS Excel, Text files, Web Logs, XML, File systems
  • Connect to databases: Connect to databases like SAP HANA, MS Access, MS SQL Server, IBM DB2, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL.
  • Connect to data sources: Connect to JDBC and ODBC data sources as well as specific applications like Sage or Salesforce.

Mobile Interactivity

Interactive reports are now available through your mobile devices. SAP Crystal Dashboard Design software, Adobe Flex, Adobe Flash and HTML 5 integration Enable SAP Crystal Reports developers to produce powerful "mash-ups" pulling data from various sources.

SAP Crystal Reports Pricing

The cost of SAP Crystal Reports is dependent on the configuration you desire, and may be price per license or bundle pricing.

Individual user or Small Business

Purchase one named user license package to take advantage of capabilities for report generation and distribution.

Number of employees:

  • 1 employee creating reports
  • 5 recipients receiving 5 reports distributed manually (both numbers are unlimited)

Configuration examples:

  • 1 license of SAP Crystal Reports 2020

Note:

  • Recipients can also interact with static reports sent to them by using the free SAP Crystal Reports Viewer 2020

Price:

  • Starts at $495/user

Small Enterprise or Start-Up

Provide broad user access and data-driven reports for your small business or startup by investing in concurrent licenses.

Number of employees:

  • 2 employees creating reports
  • 50 recipients receiving 50 individually scheduled reports (both numbers are unlimited)

Configuration example:

  • 1 license of SAP Crystal Reports 2020
  • 1 NUL of SAP Crystal Server 2020 (with standard support and mobile access for iOS and Android for 1 NUL)

Note:

  • Recipients can also interact with static reports sent to them by using our free SAP Crystal Reports Viewer 2020

Price:

  • Starts at $869/user

Medium-sized Enterprise

Expand the ability of your employees to create data-driven reports on demand and distribute them to a wider audience.

Number of employees:

  • 2 employees creating reports
  • 25 employees running reports on demand
  • 250 recipients receiving 1 or more scheduled reports personalized for each of them (the number of reports and unique recipients are unlimited)

Configuration example:

  • 1 license of SAP Crystal Reports 2020
  • 1 NUL of SAP Crystal Server 2020
  • 5 CAL of SAP Crystal Server 2020 (with standard support and mobile access for iOS and Android for 1 NUL and 5 CAL)

Note:

  • Recipients can also interact with static reports sent to them by using our free SAP Crystal Reports Viewer 2020

Price:

  • Starts at $8,744 for 5 users

Product Overview

  • Developer SAP
  • Type BI Tools
  • Client OS Windows
  • Deployment On-Premises
  • Starting Price $495/user (perpetual license)

Industry Focus

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