Crystal handles the reports you print. Power BI handles the questions that follow.
Most Crystal setups we see cost little to run and do their job well: invoices, statements, stock lists and the operational reports people rely on every day. They struggle when someone wants to slice the numbers a different way, spot a trend or check a figure from their phone. Power BI is built for that, and it can sit alongside Crystal on the same data.
- Self-service analysis: business users filter, drill into and reshape the figures without raising a report request
- Dashboards in Teams: the numbers sit where people already work
- Mobile: managers check performance on a phone or tablet
- Ready for AI: a well-built semantic model gives Copilot data it can answer from
