SAP Crystal Reports Stability

Pralhad Yesare

Microsoft Dynamics GP Consultant at Deloitte

The product is stable.

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Alain Vanhaeght

IT Project leader at a construction company with 10,001+ employees

Sometimes, the system gets blocked, and we need to restart.

I rate the solution a seven out of ten for stability.

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MohammadShafiullah

MANAGER - IT SYSTEMS at Fabtech

It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution between eight to nine out of ten.

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Nasr Rafiq

IT Manager at AE POWER

The solution is stable.

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it_user448413

Senior Application Analyst at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Nothing that minor adjustments in the report developer did not fix. Once I had made the adjustments in CR Developer there was no issue in LBI which is where I deploy 90% of my reports to.

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it_user185778

IT Specialist - Crystal Reports / SQL Server at a construction company with 10,001+ employees

When we first started using Crystal Reports 2008, we had multiple stability issues. It seemed like at least once a day (usually more than that), it would crash on us. Save Early, Save Often became our way of life. It has improved dramatically since 2011 and Enterprise version.

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Patryk Golabek

CTO at Translucent Computing Inc

If you're running the Crystal Reports server then you can control it much better. For example, when developers use the web application it means that they don't think about the extra memory that the server is going to require to run these reports. So, you get issues when you run a heap memory and things like that because the report just bootstraps lots of this information, all of the data.

With the infrastructure having to run the report, it might request a lot of memory, especially if you have a lot of users. This is something that can kill your server. That's where you want to offload it to a specialized server, such as a Crystal Report server or a Jasper server. These serve and compile the reports for you. This is why there is a push for companies to get these specialized servers.

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Syed Fahad Anwar

Principal System Developer at HHRC

There have been no stability issues.

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it_user581817

Founder & CEO at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It's always been known to crash unexpectedly, so get in the habit of frequent saving. I never liked the auto-save feature, though because it ends up saving things I didn't intend to retain. Since version 2008 it's been much more stable.

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it_user435318

Database Administrator/Application Manager at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

There have been no issues with the stability.

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Dell Stinnett-Christy

Senior Manager at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We haven't faced any issues.

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it_user269151

Business Integration Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

There have been no issues with its performance.

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it_user432762

Senior Business Intelligence Tools Administrator at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

There have been no issues with the stability.

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it_user167046

Manager - Healh IT Systems, HIPAA and Compliance - Meaningful Use Analyst at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees

There are no issues with the stability.

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it_user5802

BI Expert at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Once installed we have had to go back to Business Objects to get patches. Part of this is our own fault for going to Unix and Tomcat servers (to save licensing costs). On a Windows Environment this seems to work better. SQL Server ODBCs on the Tomcat servers are troublesome. Once it gets set, things go pretty well. View full review »

it_user448308

Senior Reports Programmer at a university with 10,001+ employees

We've experienced no issues with performance.

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it_user456375

IT Senior Programmer Analyst at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees

With Windows 10, our Crystal Reports XI product stopped working correctly completely, but works fine when we upgrade them to Crystal Reports 2013.

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it_user448305

Programmer / Reports Designer at a printing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We've experienced no issues with performance.

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it_user432603

Town Clerk's Office: General IT, Crystal Reports, Laserfiche Admin, Granicus Admin at a local government with 501-1,000 employees

I had the instability issues, described above, which led to the system crashing.

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it_user449409

Corporate Trainer/Consultant at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

I've experienced no issues with performance.

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it_user434991

Manager Data Sciences at a tech company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Often at the end of a heavy Crystal Reports/Excel day, both Crystal Reports and Excel will crash with various memory issues. Crystal Reports sometimes has problems emailing and you get a MAPI error. You will get “corrupt” reports after running successfully for a couple of years, and then have to recreate. Sometimes, for no known detectable reason, 2008 will just “vanish” and I will have to restart it.

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it_user446937

Manager, Development at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have had no issues with the stability.

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it_user161895

Database Expert at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

It’s an extremely stable platform. My reports run at around 99.94% on schedule yearly.

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it_user224157

AVP at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We have had no issues with its stability.

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it_user448422

Senior Developer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have had minor issues with its stability.

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reviewer1397571

Senior MIS Project Manager at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

This is a stable solution and we have not experienced any issues.

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it_user456381

Consultant on Health Care Reporting and Analytics at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees

This is a mature product and so I have not came across any major stability issues.

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GB432

Manager of Architecture/Design at a government with 501-1,000 employees

Some reports take a while to be generated.

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it_user140493

Developer at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

There have been no issues with the stability.

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it_user163092

Senior Reporting Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Early versions use to be very prone to crashing. Much better in the 2013 version

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it_user446715

Consultant Commercial & ShipConnect / VRS at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

We have had no issues with the stability.

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it_user628023

Microsoft Nokia Service Manager at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees

I have had no issues with the stability.

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it_user173745

Data Analyst at a healthcare company with 51-200 employees

With older versions of Crystal there was frequent "crashing" and reinstalling of the program. I have not seen any problems with Crystal 11.

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it_user431850

Director at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

There have been no issues with the stability.

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it_user142782

Data Analytics and Integration at a wellness & fitness company with 501-1,000 employees

There have been no issues with the stability.

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it_user448395

Sr BOBJ/HANA Consultant at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees

It crashes the designer when the tool with no clear error messages. Working with LOV and Business Views are challenging when migrating environments.

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it_user448683

Senior Programmer - DB Mgt & Crystal Reports at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

We've experienced no issues with performance.

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it_user449433

Team Lead - Report Development at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

We've experienced no issues with performance.

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it_user448401

Programador C#, MVC, Entity Framework, Crystal Reports, ORACLE at a transportation company with 501-1,000 employees

We've experienced no issues with performance.

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it_user186273

Crystal Reports Developer / DBA at a non-profit with 51-200 employees

No issues encountered.

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