Klipfolio vs SAP Crystal Reports: Which is a better fit?

Overall, we are satisfied with Klipfolio, we use it for over a year, it works perfectly on our internal Smart TVs. I recommend it to all SMEs nad bigger companies.

Lack of Alerts which i hope is implemented soon - this is very necessary in an IOT dashboard. Lack of User Interactivity - users want to adjust the data content by drag and drop and drill down.

Greatest new benefit is Metrics and Trends, which makes visualization over certain time periods or comparisons way easier. I love how easy it is to join JSON Data sources and have nearly real time.

Shivakant S

Technical Consultant

It's very difficult to format outside of the pre-defined reports. If you are not a Klipfolio expert or technically savvy, you are limited in Klipfolio.

Great product backed by an amazing team that cares about innovation and customer support.

We often need to restart the app after adding some panels to the dashboard. It's frustrating, the company could work on stability.

Almost any integration is possible via a plug-and-play system - no coding required at all. Klipfolio also has super useful templates to help inspire you on how to organise your dashboards.

Martin M

Project Manager

My main problem was with Klipfolio date filters.

Ramesh R

Associate Manager

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

Some functions are hard to find and error messages are very vague. If the error messages could help pin point the errors a little better it would be easier.

I've used versions 5 up to 2013 - the power to do amazing formulas and formatting is awesome (from about 2010 to version 2013). Also, the ability to connect to almost any data source is great.

Crystal Reports is now owned by SAP, so beware of the horrible contractual and licensing agreements that may apply.

Talk of it's report features, various charts, user friendliness, ease of use, pricing, you will love it. Big ups to the developers because they've made my work very easy.

It has a weak data security model. The developer has to change permissions for different files.

Each version has improved while maintaining ease and approachability. I highly recommend this software to anyone in need of an ad-hoc or print-ready formatted reporting solution.

The lack of online dashboarding--with Power BI and other analytics moving into this space, I'm not sure if Crystal survives.