Windward Core

Windward Core

31 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Windward Core	Score 9.1 out of 10	Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)	Windward’s low-code document generation solution embeds into any application, enabling users to populate data-smart documents within the familiar landscape of Microsoft Office. It's a solution from PDFTron since the April 2021 acquisition.	$190 per month

Pricing

Windward Core

Editions & Modules

Windward Hub Standard: $19.00
Per User, Per Month (10 user minimum)*
Windward Hub Premium: $49.00
Per User, Per Month (10 user minimum)*
Windward Core Pro: $547.00
per month*
Windward Core Flex: $605.00
per month*
Windward Hub Enterprise: Custom Pricing

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Windward Core
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

*Pay annually: 15% discount 10% discount for quarterly payment of Windward Core.

More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	Windward Core
Considered Both Products	Windward Core HM Hit Mistry Vice President Chose Windward Core SharePoint is a nice tool, however, it requires a lot of effort to create the forms and code for pulling in data if it's not within SharePoint itself. Maintenance of reports will require SharePoint knowledge as well. Windward removes many obstacles in traditional report … Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose Windward Core We loved the MS Word integration over other options (for instance Crystal Reports). Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Windward Core Windward had everything that we were looking for, most other companies for short in some way or another. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Windward Core I haven't evaluated other products like Windward. Incentivized Helpful? CB Chris Buswell Software Engineer Chose Windward Core Windwards support is second to none. Incentivized Helpful? Bharati Sadhwani-Tully Senior Software Developer Chose Windward Core Unfortunately, I was not involved in the research process when selecting Windward, so I can't speak to the alternatives. However, it has worked out very well for us. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Executive Chose Windward Core Prior to Windward, we were using an HTML to PDF conversion for our reporting solution. It required substantial development to create and modify our reports and the styling was never up to our standards. Windward has certainly helped decrease our time in developing and … Incentivized Helpful? Greg Snyder Director of Software Development Chose Windward Core Most reporting solutions do not allow for an easy mix of static and dynamic content. Windward is a great reporting solution for this. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Director Chose Windward Core SSRS and crystal report Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Analyst Chose Windward Core We evaluated several other products to integrate with our new software, but Windward Studios was an obvious standout above the majority. Other applications required some level of software development knowledge and experience to create templates and a much steeper learning … Incentivized Helpful? Randy McLachlan President Chose Windward Core Based on our need for easy user template manageability and a scalable report engine, Windward Studios was an obvious choice. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Director Chose Windward Core We selected WindWard Studios for its MS integration. Incentivized Helpful? Constantinos Tsiartas, CIMP Founder and Managing Director Chose Windward Core Crystal Reports, PDF Libraries, XML based templates and .NET. Incentivized Helpful? Larry Grady Senior Software Engineer Chose Windward Core Again, it's been so long since I've used another reporting tool it would be hard for me to say. I just know we used a couple of components, and their report designers never offered the simplicity of designing a report directly in an MS Office document. Incentivized Helpful? Miguel Angel Merino Vega Analista de Sistemas Chose Windward Core A weak point of WindWard is its antiquity compared to other tools already positioned within the globe of software developers. However, a critical success factor is the ease and speed to get results, and in that WindWard has a good advantage. For this reason and to be able to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Windward Core I have never used a alternative but i have peers who have used Dundas. The speed and flexability of Java Reporting Engine is much greater that that of Dundas. This had a big part to play with the Java Reporting Engine syncing with out backend much easier. Incentivized Helpful? Brent Rossow Business Data Analyst Chose Windward Core Each tool in our kit has its strengths and weaknesses. When we need to build complex reports and native Microsoft Office output is a secondary (or less) consideration, we turn to tools from Jaspersoft or InetSoft, which are great for building complex reports but are frankly … Incentivized Helpful? Adam Murray Product Support Analyst Chose Windward Core I have not used any product that would be considered similar to AutoTag Template Designer. Incentivized Helpful? CT Christopher Thorndike software developer Chose Windward Core Truthfully when I came to AmWINS this was the only product that they had as an add on to Excel. I did not do any research before coming here. I also did not know what AutoTag Template Designer was before coming here but I enjoy working with it in Excel and Word. Incentivized Helpful? Jenelle Cooper Product Support Lead Chose Windward Core I haven't used any other products for template design. Incentivized Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro Microsoft word Pro Data sources Pro User friendly
Top Cons	Minus Error messages Minus Web service Minus User support

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User Ratings
	Windward Core
Likelihood to Recommend	9.1 (25 ratings)
Usability	9.1 (16 ratings)
Support Rating	9.1 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Windward Core
Likelihood to Recommend	Apryse Great for Technical Users. It's great for people a bit more on the technical side. It allows developers to quickly create and modify reporting templates without having to modify source code or make updates to a repository. Potentially Difficult for Non-Technical Users. Making substantial changes to the data portions of reporting can be a bit difficult for non-technical users. While Windward's tools for this are great, it still requires an understanding of the database schema which not all users will have. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Apryse Native Office output -- not nested tables and/or horrible RTF like other tools generate. Ease of use -- once the data sources are set up, creating tables is as simple as drag and drop (okay, maybe not exactly that simple, but you can certainly create a table of data using drag and drop, then format it and manipulate it as needed). Responsive developers and support -- when I've had questions, they've been addressed VERY quickly and professionally. Incentivized Brent Rossow Business Data Analyst Read full review
Cons	Apryse It is hard to pick out the tags if they are mixed in with a block of text. Using report variables in select statements causes the selection list of available fields to not show anything. The color themes do not match the office selection and it feels very disconnected. Anthony Vengrofski Programming Team Lead Read full review
Usability	Apryse For the most part, the Windward report designer is intuitive for our users; but there are a few areas where it is less intuitive. In these cases, our users need to search Windwards support wiki site, or even contact their support technicians. This can also be due to the short time we've had Windward and our lack of knowledge. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	Apryse Support is something they take pride in. Once an issue is raised, they are quick to respond and provide details on a fix. No complaints on support here. HM Hit Mistry Vice President Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Apryse We evaluated several other products to integrate with our new software, but Windward Studios was an obvious standout above the majority. Other applications required some level of software development knowledge and experience to create templates and a much steeper learning curve. After consideration of ease of use, as well as a cost-comparison between different products, Windward Studios was the most suitable product to meet our needs. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Apryse As a fully integrated solution, the ROI is impacted when a client gets stickier with our solution because they see the benefit of Windward. Support has been fantastic for our development team so that as we integrate the solutions we have a clear and clean design. Incentivized Michael Horrocks VP Product Management Read full review
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