Windward Studios Rocks
February 07, 2019
Windward Studios Rocks
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Windward Studios
We have selected Windward Studios as our replacement for Oracle Reports. Finding a product that allowed users to easily change their own text and graphics content on correspondence was the main focus. With Windward Studios, users can use Microsoft Word to integrate their report templates with our database application to generate high-quality documents. With very high volume printing requirements, speed was also a critical factor. Windward Studios easily met our expectations. We are very pleased with this product.
- Easily integrates MS Word templates with database tables or views.
- Generates high-quality output at great speeds.
- Produces output in several formats for a variety of uses.
- We had difficulty loading the jar file for the Java engine in our Oracle database. Calling reports using the command line worked fine.
- With Windward Studios we can expose the data needed for the report (i.e. build a view), and perhaps build the initial template. After that users can manage the document themselves, saving money on maintenance and implement changes more quickly.
- Changes to reports are so easy, users expect the same capabilities of our application. I only wish it was that easy.
Based on our need for easy user template manageability and a scalable report engine, Windward Studios was an obvious choice.