Windward Reports

"Windward Reports" is the Leading provider of Easy to Use Java Reporting and .Net Remoting Solutions. It is a fast, easy, and powerful report server.Windward Reports has specialized in easy-to-use reporting since 2003 and now has one of the easiest report design tools on the market. Striving to be the most flexible, powerful, and easiest reporting software on the market, Windward has made it's software available on both Java and .NET platforms, includes virtually any output format, and utilizes Microsoft Office products as design tools, essentially eliminating the steep learning curve of Windward's competitors.

Reporting Software

So far, we've heard of many reporting software products out there. Still, we 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 a lot of money. We 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 us fast template creation designed for the business professional. And we need access to all the 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 us to focus on expressing our business ideas, and letting us 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 we can have it all!

The reason why we 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, we have to understand that the competition forces us 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 we run another program to process that intermediary file so we can get the format we 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, we know, to make our life a little more difficult) , and letting this reporting software program generate, say, a XML file containing the data it got. Right after that, we'd run another program so we can choose the format we want to output our 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 us. Contrary to the competition, it doesn't turn our 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 we already know how to use, which means we'll have a low learning curve – and then, with the power of Windward Engine, we can retrieve the data from our SQL report or XML report database with the click of a button. Plus, if we want to create new templates (but don't have a designer at hand), Windward's Autotag installs itself in Word, allowing us 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, we can create our 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, we can get instantaneous reports (yes, following our 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 our document everywhere)