Enterprise Reporting & Document Generation Software

Reporting Software

So far, you've heard of many reporting software products out there. Still, you may be left wondering about each system. If that's the case, here comes a brief explanation about them and how a good reporting software tool can save you a lot of money. You need a system that truly makes report design fast & easy with unmatched time savings throughout the report and document creation process. One that eliminates the IT bottleneck.

The solution is layout in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint. This gives you fast template creation designed for the business professional. And you need access to all your data in SQL, XML, Excel spreadsheet and other data sources

Document Generation Software

And then there's document reporting software, also known as "Document Generation" software (docgen), and "dynamic document composition" created a revolution in the business world, allowing you to focus on expressing your business ideas, and letting you forget about how it should like. The result, therefore, is an instantaneous report or presentation. However, one unanswered question remains: there are many commercial and free tools out there that can do the job – so why bother trying Windward Reports? Why not choose, say, free software alternatives, and save money?

Yes you can have it all!

The reason you want to try Windward Reports is that the competition turns your dream of generating quick and automated content into a nightmare. And why is that? Well, first, you have to understand that the competition forces you to accept a different and technical definition of what SQL reports and what XML reports are: instead of defining reporting simply as a file with useful data, they understand "reporting" as retrieving the data from a database and transforming it, into, say, an intermediary file, and then you run another program to process that intermediary file so you can get the format you want. Confusing? Oh, it gets better. See how it goes for someone that just wants to get the job done.

For someone that is no programmer, this would mean using a program to get data from a database (which would probably mean going through an SQL tutorial in the process – just, you know, to make your life a little more difficult) , and letting this reporting software program generate, say, a XML file containing the data it got. Right after that, you'd run another program so you can choose the format you want to output your XML file to: it could be an HTML file, PDF, an excel report, and so on. Does it sound clear now? No? Well, that's because most companies are developing for developers – not for end users.

Windward reports, on the other hand, understands you. Contrary to the competition, it doesn't turn your dreams into a nightmare. The very reason it is so great, in fact, is because it turns your dreams into reality. First, it installs special ribbons into Microsoft Office – a tool you already know how to use, which means you'll have a low learning curve – and then, with the power of Windward Engine, you can retrieve the data from your SQL report or XML report database with the click of a button. Plus, if you want to create new templates (but don't have a designer at hand), Windward's Autotag installs itself in Word, allowing you to create very professional templates in a matter of minutes.

These advantages, although already astonishing, are not the only ones Windward's reporting software has to offer: just as previously stated, you can create your reports in multiple formats, just like every tool around. However, unlike the competition – and because, just as stated before, it is so tightly integrated into Microsoft Office, you can get instantaneous reports (yes, following your definition of reports) in the following formats (but not limited to them):

RTF and DOCX (Microsoft Word)
PPTX (Microsoft PowerPoint)
XLS and XLSX (Microsoft Excel – no more worries about trying to read an excel tutorial to figure out how to insert "data entries" or to make your presentation "look professional")
HTML reports (they display in any Browser)
PDF (suitable for printing your document everywhere)