CA Deliver vs Windward Core comparison

Broadcom and Windward Studios are both solutions in the Reporting category. Broadcom is ranked #43, 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

43rd

Average Rating

9.6

Reviews Sentiment

8.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

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 October 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 Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Windward Core	0.9%
CA Deliver	0.1%
Other	99.0%

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."

"Managing templates through MS Word, as non technical users can manage output."

"The ability for users to have design and layout control is very important because it allows them control over the design and layout of their reports, without the help of IT."

"The integration with MS Office is an advantage, creating a better user experience."

"A useful, easy to use product, which has a lot of features for designing reports."

"The ultimate feature is the product it produces. The ROI around that saves hours and hours. It's probably about a hundred days per year. The time savings and the ability to turn it around quickly pleases our customers."

"Some of our clients are looking at the nested filtering which is coming out. That's going to be a huge benefit for them because they're going to be able to nest and loop while they're also looking at filtering out certain data elements."

"The two features that I like the best are the ability to generate Word and Excel documents, and the ability to create my templates directly inside those software sets. It's absolutely critical for me as a user to have design and layout control, because all of my reports are very, very customized. I have to have control over the ability to generate and to control what they look like."

"The usually the response is within one hour. The technical support will WebEx with you. I rate them as a 10 out of 10."

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Cons

"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."

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

"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."

"It needs better support for upgrades and more control over layout of elements. Upgrades tend to break existing output. Elements do not position where expected due to insertion of blank lines and page breaks. It takes time to fix these through trial and error."

"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."

"I'm still working in Office 2016, and we have had some issues, but Windward is very quick to react when there is a problem. We are also going to switch over to Office 365 and that will solve a few of the problems."

"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."

"Regarding AutoTag, we do notice that when you want to refactor a little bit of your template design or when you want to implement changes, sometimes you need a lot of clicks to get the change done. For instance... it would be helpful to be able to find all the identifiers with the old name and replace them with the new name. We haven't found a way to do that with the find-replace tool. Throughout the user-interface of Windward, you need a lot of clicks to get that done."

"We would like to shrink these reports into one page, because there is a lot of free space on one page, but we cannot shrink it into the one page to be shorter. This is one thing we would like to change."

"It is software, so there are always times where things don't work. Most of the time issues happen when trying to move to a new version. There might be problems with reports that were created in an older version, so either we have to make a tweak to the templates or we report it to them and get them to make an adjustment to their software."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

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

"The only problem with the pricing of Windward is the limitation on the number of reports generated. It is costly in that sense. If you want to increase, you have to pay more, based on the number of reports generated per day. It is not the same with Crystal Reports. With the latter, you buy a license at one point in time and that's it."

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

"The pricing is very reasonable for what it provides. The report builder is about one grand per user... We are paying for a support contract, which is 20 percent of the price, but because the licenses are perpetual, I think the pricing is very reasonable."

"I'm starting to hear clients squeal about the price of their software. The cost of the software has gone up."

"I can't advise anybody about pricing and licensing, but it was competitive. A lot of things we did look at were all volume-based, so it was a case of you buy a license to generate this many reports a year, and that's not something that I'm particularly interested in because it doesn't give you any idea - if we have future growth, or if we have a lean year - for budgeting reasons it's more difficult. With Windward it's a straight out license fee, whether we generate one page or we generate a million, it makes no difference."

"The cost is reasonable."

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

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Financial Services Firm

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10%

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10%

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Small Business	19
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	8

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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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