Crystal Reports vs Web Intelligence

Crystal Reports and Web Intelligence are two technologies from SAP BusinessObjects portfolio that provide possibility to build reports. Web Intelligence is a perfect tool for ad-hoc reporting. It is very easy to build report from a scratch even for a new user. However when the requirements are too specific, when it is necessary to build in a sophisticated logic or when a precise formatting is required, the simplicity becomes too restrictive and the reports turn into a terrible mix of miscellaneous tricks. In this situation, Crystal Reports is much better choice. Below is a technical comparison of Crystal Reports and Web Intelligence written by my colleague Maria Ruchko, an expert in both these technologies.

Crystal Reports

Web Intelligence

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This entry was posted in Business Objects, Web Intelligence on July 27, 2012 by dmytro .

7 thoughts on “ Crystal Reports vs Web Intelligence ”

1. roland - deltekSeptember 6, 2012 at 9:09 am hi dmytro, great site! very informative.. now im a follower 😀 Like Like

1. dmytro Post author February 20, 2013 at 10:35 pm You can define a query filter as:

Object = Prompt or Object Prompt

In this way, you will have an answer to a prompt but the data will not be filtered on this value. The value can be used for some calculations. E.g. if we want to ask user if he wants to see figures in thousands. Like Like

1. dmytro Post author March 20, 2013 at 10:18 am Hi Shobhit Thank you for your opinion. Personally I am also biased towards Web Intelligence. However I believe you agree there are requirements that are easier to implement in Crystal and not so easy in Web Intelligence (and of course vice versa). Like Like