In foreign countries, Crystal Reports is a business reporting tool of SAP Company and serves as a report component module under the SAP "Group". It was popular 10 years ago and was later acquired by SAP. However, Crystal Report only supports a single data set in theory. Support for multiple sets depends on the computing power of the database (cross multiplication, union, etc. or writing stored procedures), and it is generally difficult for multiple databases to support it.

In China, FineReport is currently the most mature domestic report software field and has the highest market share. According to IDC's report, it even surpassed SAP and IBM in 2017. In this segment, it is also the only reporting tool recommended in Gartner's BI Selection Market Guide. Zero-code development, Excel-like design method, easy to get started. In particular, the design of data dictionaries, actual values ??and display values ??is the key to rapid development. These often require a lot of code to be implemented in other languages ??and systems and frequently needed functions are only a few operations in FineReport. matter. Mobile reports + large screen visualization, FineReport has innate development advantages for large screens.