CA Deliver vs Windward Core comparison

Broadcom and Windward Studios are both solutions in the Reporting category. Broadcom is ranked #41, while Windward Studios is ranked #23. Broadcom holds a 0.1% mindshare in RT, compared to Windward Studios’s 0.9% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Broadcom users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Windward Studios users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 4, 2025

Windward Core and CA Deliver compete in document generation and management. Windward Core is preferred for its ease of use and integration, while CA Deliver is recognized for its robust functionality, which many find worth the investment.

Features: Windward Core is known for user-friendly features, offering powerful template design and effortless data source support, making it ideal for customizable solutions. Its integration capabilities are highly regarded. CA Deliver stands out for comprehensive document delivery, archiving features, and ensuring regulatory compliance and large-scale processing. The main difference is Windward Core's flexibility compared to CA Deliver's delivery capabilities.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Windward Core is known for simple deployment and seamless integration into existing IT environments, with responsive support. CA Deliver offers structured deployment suitable for complex enterprise document distribution, supported by reliable, though less flexible, services. The main distinction lies in Windward Core's simplified deployment versus CA Deliver's structured approach.

Pricing and ROI: Windward Core provides competitive pricing with high ROI due to quick deployment and low training costs. CA Deliver involves a higher initial setup cost, but its comprehensive system capabilities are valuable for large operations. The main difference is Windward Core's cost-effectiveness and rapid ROI, contrasted with CA Deliver's larger investment and long-term benefits.

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Categories and Ranking

CA Deliver

Ranking in Reporting

41st

Average Rating

9.6

Reviews Sentiment

8.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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Windward Core

Ranking in Reporting

23rd

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

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Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Reporting category, the mindshare of CA Deliver is 0.1%, up from 0.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Windward Core is 0.9%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Reporting

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it_user837525

Senior Systems Engineer (Sr. level II) at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Gives us one repository for various output formats and retention periods

A common theme with all CA products is they state compatibility with new technologies when it has not yet been proven. Much like other technology companies that have fallen into this trap, let feature and compatibly releases be controlled by the technical group, instead of the marketing and/or management people. I cite the example that CA mainframe products were deemed to be compatible with Extended Address Volumes (EAV) - larger sized disk volumes - when they were not. I have been doing this for 37 years and see it all too often, sometimes to the detriment of the company itself (Storage Technology Corp. and its Iceberg array comes to mind).

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Christopher Heinz

Sr. Systems Analyst at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Strong layout and design capabilities; leverages every aspect available in Word-native formatting

The licensing key is a little bit twitchy. I'd like to see more HTML formatting support in templates. It has a basic stock of HTML formatting capability, but it doesn't have a rich vocabulary. I have to work around that sometimes. The help documentation and blog posts are extensive, but not always up to date. The error reports also need improvement. If you don't key it in right, it's a little hard to find the root cause. It gives you information as much as it can, but it doesn't really hone in and tell you explicitly what you should do to correct the problem.

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Pros

"Having one repository for various output formats and retention periods. Provides the flexibility to establish hundreds of different retention entries, based upon business need, and then group the like retention period outputs together on the same media. It is very efficient."

"Flexibility of report configuration; allows for quick and simple amendments to definitions."

"The design tool, with all of its features and sample output fidelity tests, and being able to work with JSON data and output PDF and HTML, were also both crucial."

"The engine being able to sit inside of our firewall is the most important feature."

"Creating dynamic table of contents (TOC) based on dynamic data in different reports."

"Thanks to Windward, our documents need very few tweaks and are usually "customer-ready" right out of the box."

"One of the things they added in the last two or three years is PODs, Portable Object Doclets. One of our clients said they wanted to use PODs. They're a good way to make some constructs modular and keep things in one place."

"The most valuable feature is the Rich Text or TinyMCE in fields. For example, you have a text field but it is not a regular text field, it is a link. Inside this link, you can copy/paste everything: images, text, and tables together. After saving this field, you can pull it into the document."

"It has the ability to easily integrate into existing apps with little code. If you know how to use MS Office, you can create a report."

"We can develop any report at least five times faster."

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Cons

"Needs ability to allow export to xls/pdf, etc. (Note: this is available in add-on product CA – OM Web Viewer)."

"A common theme with all CA products is they state compatibility with new technologies when it has not yet been proven. I cite the example that CA mainframe products were deemed to be compatible with Extended Address Volumes (EAV) - larger sized disk volumes - when they were not."

"Is there any way to avoid AutoTag loading in Word/Excel each time? I need to use it from time to time - quite rarely. AutoTag affects performance of Word/Excel. I do not want to install/uninstall AutoTag each time I need it."

"They should add a document distribution solution on top of the document generation capability. It should allow us to send the generated document to a certain recipient (e.g. customer contact’s email address) based on a business-rules management system. That system would allow the end-user to manage a relationship between a document template and its recipient."

"They're not a gigantic company, so they just don't have all the capital to do whatever they would want to do. That's the only reason I would hold back even that one point. I know that if I do ask for something, I'll get it. I just know that it will take some time."

"I have to deal with VERY long lists of properties contained in our XMLs and it would be nice if Windward offered a way to alphabetize this property list."

"It would be nice to have a black-and-white, ideal setup for servers, to maximize capabilities. We went through a lot of scenarios to get something that is scalable. An ideal AWS-package server setup could have saved us a lot of time. But I understand this is very company specific."

"About six months ago, we raised the possibility of improving the way they manage the HTML 5. Sometimes, when you insert a lot of data in the data source, you get an error because it is not managing HTML 5 features well. I believe they have addressed this in later versions of their product."

"Their PDF needs improvement. We've run into some issues when we tried to generate a Word document. If we try to generate the same document in PDF, sometimes it doesn't look exactly the same."

"The only thing I can think of, that we'd like it to do, would be the ability to "burst out" reports, meaning one section of a report could be sent out as an email to a manager of a department, say, without having to run multiple reports to do it. As it sits now, we have to do multiple reports to do it."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Pricing is reasonable, licensing model suitable for large enterprises."

"CapEx fits our requirements, OpEx is higher due to the 20% service and maintenance cost, where we normally pay 15%."

"The pricing is fair. The way that they have it priced is the Windward Designer has a price that's associated with it. Then, depending on the number of cores that you're looking for, that is the price that you pay. The more cores that you want, the more expensive it is."

"We negotiated our prices many years ago, and while they go up a little bit here and there, they've been pretty steady."

"Windward is very expensive when the volume of documents being generated is low and it is cheap when the volume is high."

"It is absolutely worth the value. They have flexibility, depending on what you're looking for from a buying standpoint. The current pricing models are quite flexible, with the ability to use it on an as-needed basis, or to get a perpetual license that covers a customer that might have extensive needs. I think it's pretty good."

"Pricing is a bit higher than normal desktop applications, but it's well worth it. The ROI is simple to understand and the monthly payment for an annual license is affordable and worth it."

"For what you're getting, it's an extremely good value."

"Pricing is something I complain about. Production pricing is okay, but for a testing environment the pricing looks a bit high to me."

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Overview

CA Deliver is an online report management system that provides you with tools to manage and reduce the cost of report distribution. Able to be utilized by itself or in conjunction with other enterprise report management solutions from CA Technologies, CA Deliver uses the power of the mainframe to automate the day-to-day report management functions of distribution, tracking and printing.

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What is Windward Studios?

For over a decade, Windward has been a leader in the software development industry by creating the most innovative and advanced document automation and reporting software on the planet.

Data-Driven Document Automation

Generate stunning documents that incorporate relevant data easily and seamlessly.

Visually Striking Designs

Our software provides innovative tools and features to build beautiful designs and stunning layouts, all within the familiar Microsoft Office Suite. Your imagination is the only limitation.

Agile Document Logic

We offer the best document automation software for the new millennium. With our conditional logic functionality, you can swiftly personalize the document content to gratify your end users.

Huge Time Saver

Looking for faster template creation that enables you to keep pace with your business? With our software, template creation takes minutes and you do not need any programming experience to get it done.

Exceptionally Intuitive Interface

Our program's design offers documents that can be edited, customized and designed using MS Office. Enjoy a stress-free document automation experience in programs you already know.

Efficient Savings

Significantly reduce the resources and time required for template development by using our streamlined template design and document automation tools.

Windward Studios

Sample Customers

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HAL, Inc., Axe Group, White Clark Group, Blueprint Software, Aspect Security, Nucleus Software, LeBlanc’s Food Stores, South Sound 911, Aegon, Barclays, Fidelity Investments, ArisGlobal LLC, USDA, RepLink, AON Hewitt

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