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At a Glance
SAP Crystal Reports
SAP Crystal Reports
Star Rating
(208)4.2 out of 5
Market Segments
Mid-Market (38.2% of reviews)
Information
Entry-Level Pricing
$495 user
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Visual Studio Code
Visual Studio Code
Star Rating
(2,359)4.7 out of 5
Market Segments
Small-Business (42.9% of reviews)
Information
Entry-Level Pricing
No pricing available
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SAP Crystal Reports vs Visual Studio Code

When assessing the two solutions, reviewers found Visual Studio Code easier to use, set up, and administer. Reviewers also preferred doing business with Visual Studio Code overall.

  • Reviewers felt that Visual Studio Code meets the needs of their business better than SAP Crystal Reports.
  • When comparing quality of ongoing product support, reviewers felt that Visual Studio Code is the preferred option.
  • For feature updates and roadmaps, our reviewers preferred the direction of Visual Studio Code over SAP Crystal Reports.
Pricing
Entry-Level Pricing
SAP Crystal Reports
SAP Crystal Reports 2020 - full product
$495
user
Browse all 5 pricing plans
Visual Studio Code
No pricing available
Free Trial
SAP Crystal Reports
Free Trial is available
Visual Studio Code
No trial information available
Ratings
Meets Requirements
8.8
185
9.3
1,901
Ease of Use
7.7
185
9.2
1,911
Ease of Setup
7.6
100
9.2
305
Ease of Admin
8.0
95
8.9
214
Quality of Support
7.6
146
8.7
1,559
Has the product been a good partner in doing business?
7.8
85
9.1
184
Product Direction (% positive)
6.7
183
9.5
1,836
Features by Category
7.8
165
Not enough data
Reports
8.3
148
Not enough data
7.6
127
Not enough data
7.8
127
Not enough data
7.7
77
Not enough data
7.8
113
Not enough data
Self Service
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Advanced Analytics
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Building Reports
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Platform
Not enough data
Not enough data
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Not enough data
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Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
8.0
166
Not enough data
Reports
8.3
148
Not enough data
7.6
127
Not enough data
7.8
127
Not enough data
7.7
77
Not enough data
7.8
113
Not enough data
Reports
8.4
30
Not enough data
8.4
28
Not enough data
8.3
27
Not enough data
Generative AI
7.2
15
Not enough data
7.7
15
Not enough data
Visualization
8.5
28
Not enough data
8.3
27
Not enough data
8.6
28
Not enough data
8.0
28
Not enough data
Data Updates
7.8
27
Not enough data
7.8
26
Not enough data
Collaboration
8.1
29
Not enough data
7.7
28
Not enough data
7.4
26
Not enough data
Data Updates
8.2
36
Not enough data
8.5
35
Not enough data
8.4
36
Not enough data
Not enough data
9.1
1,518
Coding
Not enough data
9.5
1423
Not enough data
8.9
1415
Not enough data
9.2
1407
Not enough data
9.1
1359
Editing
Not enough data
8.6
1119
Not enough data
9.2
1336
Not enough data
9.0
1341
Functionality
Not enough data
9.3
1372
Not enough data
9.2
1320
Not enough data
9.3
1405
Not enough data
8.9
1091
Agentic AI - Landing Page Builders
Not enough data
Not enough data
Categories
Categories
Shared Categories
SAP Crystal Reports
SAP Crystal Reports
Visual Studio Code
Visual Studio Code
SAP Crystal Reports and Visual Studio Code share no categories
Unique Categories
SAP Crystal Reports
SAP Crystal Reports is categorized as Data Visualization
Visual Studio Code
Visual Studio Code is categorized as Text Editor
Reviews
Reviewers' Company Size
SAP Crystal Reports
SAP Crystal Reports
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
29.6%
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
38.2%
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
32.2%
Visual Studio Code
Visual Studio Code
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
42.9%
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
30.6%
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
26.5%
Reviewers' Industry
SAP Crystal Reports
SAP Crystal Reports
Information Technology and Services
15.6%
Computer Software
6.0%
Hospital & Health Care
4.0%
Accounting
4.0%
Education Management
3.0%
Other
67.3%
Visual Studio Code
Visual Studio Code
Computer Software
34.1%
Information Technology and Services
25.2%
Program Development
3.0%
Financial Services
2.6%
Internet
2.4%
Other
32.6%
Most Helpful Reviews
SAP Crystal Reports
SAP Crystal Reports
Most Helpful Favorable Review
RJ
Ruthvik J.
Verified User in Computer Networking

Our business uses SAP Crystal mainly as a embedded product. The programming language and the customizations are very intuitive. We have used this tool for handlng large data, creating customs reports, sub-totals, and categorize that data into tables and...

Most Helpful Critical Review
Lori L.
LL
Lori L.
Verified User in Hospital & Health Care

Long, complex crosstab reports are nearly impossible! I have to think up crafty ways to enter the SQL so I can get the data to appear. For the sake of data integrity, the base of all reports should be the raw data that the report pulls from, and then do the...

Visual Studio Code
Visual Studio Code
Most Helpful Favorable Review
AK
Avinash K.
Verified User in Computer Software

1. The simple and intuitive user interface 2. Available on all the platforms i.e. Linux, Windows, MacOS 3. Plethora of extensions are available in the marketplace and you can download it in one-click 4. It has an integrated terminal so that you can run your...

Most Helpful Critical Review
Palash K.
PK
Palash K.
Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Extremely limited features with respect to standard and hugely popular IDES like Visual Studio Lack of Project Structures and project Templates made enterprise-wide application development very difficult.

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Discussions
SAP Crystal Reports
SAP Crystal Reports Discussions
What is SAP Crystal Reports?
2 comments
Alicia B.
AB
SAP Crystal is a report writing software that can connect to various databases that are SQL-based or similar to facilitate report writing. Technically coding...Read more
Why complex reports takes a bit more time to develop?
1 comment
Alan N.
AN
More complex = more time. I have seen ppl trying to user CR to build a BI tool ... charts, graphs and such . CR. CR does support those but there are other...Read more
What is SAP Crystal used for?
1 comment
Aman S.
AS
It is used for generating analytical reports from various data sources, including SAP and non-SAP sources like SQL Server, MySQL, XML Microsoft Excel, etc.Read more
Visual Studio Code
Visual Studio Code Discussions
Is Visual Studio code an IDE?
10 comments
Yogesh S.
YS
Visual Studio Code is a code editor, not a full-fledged integrated development environment (IDE). Free to Use Beginner Friendly.Read more
What is Visual Studio Code used for?
7 comments
Vivek S.
VS
Visual Studio Code (VSCode) is a free, open-source code editor developed by Microsoft. You can do any type of programming and scripting tasks easily on VS...Read more
Why is Visual Studio code so popular?
6 comments
Yogesh S.
YS
Easy To use. Beginner Friendly. Many Extension to ease our Work. The user-interface is Easy and has Many customization.Read more