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What is Windward Core?
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.
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Windward Hub Standard
$19.00
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$49.00
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Windward Core Pro
$547.00
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- $190 per month
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What is Windward Core?
Embed Windward in an application to deliver a document automation component.
The vendor promises the following capabilities and differentiators:
Visually Outstanding Designs
Users can create designs and attractive layouts.
Smart Document Logic
With a conditional logic feature, users can personalize the content of their document to suit a wide range of audience.
Easy Template Creation
The vendor says their platform is fast and user friendly: in under an hour, any ordinary business professional can have their templates completed.
Do it Faster for Less
Users do not have to spend a lot on developing templates and documents even if they are trying to get them done fast. The vendor says their software can simplify the process of creating tailor-made templates and documents which will let you significantly save time and money.
Windward Core Features
- Supported: Visually Stunning Designs
- Supported: Smart Document Logic
- Supported: Massive Time Savings
- Supported: Incredibly Intuitive Interface
- Supported: Streamlined Cost Savings
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Document Automation Software for high-volume output in a familiar user-friendly design environment (MS Office). Windward Studios offers world-class document automation tool using familiar tools like Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
You don't have to know code or be a developer to de...
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Windward Core Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, Mac, Anything that has Java |
| Mobile Application | No |
Frequently Asked Questions
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.
Windward Core starts at $190.
Docmosis and Jaspersoft are common alternatives for Windward Core.
Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 9.1.
The most common users of Windward Core are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
Windward Core Customer Size Distribution
| Consumers | 0% |
|---|---|
| Small Businesses (1-50 employees) | 20% |
| Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees) | 40% |
| Enterprises (more than 500 employees) | 40% |
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Users have found AutoTag Designer to be a valuable tool for building reports both for internal use and for customers, particularly when they require native Microsoft Office output. By using AutoTag, users have experienced a significant improvement in the efficiency and ease of report creation, as it eliminates the need for manual data collection and editing. The Windward Document Generation Software is highly regarded for its ability to aggregate and display data from various sources, with the added benefit of being able to extend functionality through code. This has led to its integration into cloud-based solutions for financial institutions, allowing clients to create custom documents that meet their specific needs. One of the standout features of Windward Reporting solutions is their user-friendly nature, making it easy for non-technical individuals to edit and maintain reports. It has also been selected as a replacement for Oracle Reports due to its flexibility in changing text and graphics content on correspondence. The Windward Reporting engine is widely used for generating sales proposals, presentations, orders, and reports with reliable recreation of documents at runtime. For those with special requirements in report elaboration, the Windward Java Reporting Engine has been highly valued for its rapid performance across all types of reports. The AutoTag Template Designer has proven useful across multiple departments as it aids in building and fixing templates while providing basic troubleshooting and enhancements. It offers an ideal solution for users looking to create and modify custom report templates based on their specific requirements with minimal time and effort. Windward Studios stands out as a critical component of Loan Automation Solutions, facilitating document and report generation with minimal coding required. It has also made a significant impact on the Baker Hill NextGen solution by enabling the communication of critical information for banks and credit unions. Moreover, its usage extends to formatting critical text reports for airplane cockpits, ensuring accurate and reliable information delivery. With Windward Studios, SaaS administrators and clients gain the ability to create and modify custom report templates tailored precisely to their needs, thus reducing time and effort. A government agency even uses Windward to generate customized flight plans for pilots worldwide and design templates for outgoing communication with their government clients. The software has enabled users to create templates without any technical knowledge, resulting in saved development time. In the finance and insurance industry, a company leverages Windward to generate various documents such as insurance declarations and certificates. To accomplish this, business analysts at the company utilize Windward's report design with Microsoft Office products to create templates for their source systems. They also integrate Windward's RESTful API with multiple source systems and third-party software. Another notable use case of Windward's software is its adoption by a software development team for downloading data from tables with different formatting. The team finds Windward to be efficient and reliable in this task. Additionally, a document generation solutions provider partners with Windward to deliver tailored solutions to their clients, including loan documents, insurance letters, and proposal generation. This partnership highlights the versatility of Windward in catering to various industries and document types. Apart from its broad application, Windward is widely used across several departments within companies, enabling them to design reports with text, tables, and images. This flexibility in design allows users to export reports to Word and PDF formats seamlessly. Notably, Windward plays a crucial role in the origination and servicing phase of loans for generating letters by capturing and processing data received from USD. Its integration into the company's process ensures the creation of accurate and finalized products by efficiently incorporating data into the documents.
Overall, users have found AutoTag Designer and Windward's Document Generation Software to be valuable tools in building reports, generating custom documents, automating processes, and facilitating communication across industries such as finance, government agencies, aviation, software development, and more. The user-friendly interface and flexibility provided by Windward's solutions have resulted in increased efficiency, reduced manual effort, and enhanced customization options for non-technical individuals.
Intuitive and User-Friendly Interface: Users have consistently praised the intuitive and user-friendly interface of Windward Reports, mentioning that they find it easy to navigate and manipulate tables using drag and drop functionality. Many users appreciate the simplicity of the interface, which allows them to quickly create and complete tasks efficiently.
Responsive Support Team: Users highly appreciate the responsiveness of Windward's support team. They mention that their questions and concerns are addressed promptly and professionally, leading to a positive experience. The support team provides quick assistance whenever needed.
Seamless Integration with Microsoft Office: Users highlight the major advantage of Windward Reports being seamlessly integrated within the Microsoft Office suite. They appreciate being able to leverage familiar features from Office products, such as Word, to easily create visually appealing reports. This integration enables users to work efficiently without requiring extensive technical knowledge or additional software.
Limited Customizability: Some users have found the software to be limited in terms of customizability compared to other report tools they use, feeling restricted in their ability to tailor reports according to their specific needs.
Difficulties with Drag and Drop Feature: Several users have mentioned that the drag and drop feature is not intuitive as they are unable to drag and drop individual fields, causing inconvenience and frustration during report creation.
Issues with PDF Output Accuracy: Some users have experienced issues with the accuracy of the PDF output, noting that minor tweaks are often required for it to match the original report exactly.
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Windward is a critical component of our Baker Hill NextGen solution, which is used in hundreds of banks and credit unions. We have clients that use this fully integrated solution every day to communicate critical information externally and internally to drive their business needs. By being able to leverage the extensive data sets within Baker Hill NextGen, Windward gives our clients the ability to drive their business and make the decisions they need to grow revenue and minimize risk.
- Leveraging the data sets within Baker Hill NextGen to maximize communication of the data for external and internal purposes.
- With the latest releases to the ability to sort and control the flow of data, clients will have a better representation of the information needed to make business decisions.
- I really have not found a big set of gaps with Windward. They are accessible all the time for any suggestions.
- 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.
April 13, 2017
Get the same as the traditional, but much better!
Windward Java Reporting Engine is a wonderful tool for reporting for Java applications. Currently I use it for the rapid elaboration of reports with special requirements, which allows to have a formidably fast engine to elaborate all type of reports without the wastage of time that involves the elaboration of reports in other engines more generalized in Java.
- Fast and direct report engine, using friendly templates through an add-in for Microsoft Word.
- Adequate support and documentation to ensure a quick integration
- Your template designers dont need to learn Java at all. They can work through Microsoft Office
- The learning curve can be a nuisance, considering that currently Jaspers is the antonomic engine for Java
- There is a price (not so expensive) so yeah thats always a cons.
- Many customers currently use Jaspers, so migration can become a point to consider
- TIBCO Jaspersoft and SAP Crystal Reports
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 divide the work better without the need of technical restrictions, I support WindWard.
March 30, 2017
Java Reporting Engine Review from Java Developer
We use Java Reporting Engine to capture and process data we receive from USD. The we return the data using a HTML format which is easy to view for analyst to judge the input data. This data is then integrated into our process to create our final product.
- Flexibility. The ability to modify the reporting engine to what you are exactly looking for and what you expect back.
- Speed. Extremely quick page generation.
- Overall it leave a very small footprint and does not burden too much on our system.
- I found the API documentation to be rather lacking and descriptive.
- Initial setup can be a little more complication due to the above confusing documentation.
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.
January 07, 2016
For native Office output, AutoTag really delivers
We use AutoTag designer to build reports for our customers to use internally and with their own customers. It is one of several report design tools currently in use, and we selected AutoTag specifically for its native Microsoft Office output for which there simply is no comparison against our other tools, which technically create Office-type output (RTF, DOCX, etc.) but not in formats that are easy for our customers to adapt and modify after the reports are generated. AutoTag output behaves exactly like Office documents because they are Office documents. Certainly this isn't the answer for every reporting scenario, but when native Office output is required, AutoTag delivers exactly that.
- 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.
- Limited in terms of customizability -- this is a double-edged sword. Other report tools we use support anything from limited to incredibly complex JavaScript, for example, and we often use a combination of JavaScript and complex queries to pass and manipulate data. AutoTag can do some of this, but it wouldn't be our go-to solution for complex reporting.
- Limited drag and drop -- while you can easily create tables with drag and drop, you can't drag and drop individual fields, which really isn't intuitive
- Jaspersoft
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 terrible at providing useable Office output. However, when we need to develop templates that our customers can maintain on their own and/or that produce ultra-clean Office documents, AutoTag delivers in spades. It's simple to use (relatively speaking) in applications that are already familiar to most users, and the output is a "real" Office document and not just a collection of tables that happen to exist within an Office doc.