We performed a comparison between Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services and Windward Core based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in Reporting."The solution's features are all just wrapped up in one nice easy package. I don't need a lot of toolsets to get everything I need done."
"It is a stable solution."
"I am impressed with the product's seamless integration. It can work with different databases like Oracle."
"It is scalable."
"We can create quality reports in real time."
"I like Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services' automated reporting feature."
"We were able to embed the report builder within our internal proprietary systems, improving our reporting capabilities."
"In Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services, the installation and configuration are easy."
"Creating dynamic table of contents (TOC) based on dynamic data in different reports."
"The integration with MS Office is an advantage, creating a better user experience."
"The engine being able to sit inside of our firewall is the most important feature."
"For the designer we use AutoTag which is a Microsoft Word plugin. In general, it's easy to use, it doesn't have a very steep learning curve. It's not difficult, for people who know Microsoft Office well, to start using the AutoTag tool... It feels just like you're in a Microsoft Office environment with some extra functionality."
"Windward helped automate reports which otherwise would have needed IT to create and maintain."
"It's very feature-rich. You can create tables, you can create graphs, you can import pictures, and those features are also easy to use."
"Thanks to Windward, our documents need very few tweaks and are usually "customer-ready" right out of the box."
"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."
"The product should improve its performance."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing model."
"Sometimes, we need to make sure that the configuration stays consistent across the reporting instances. They all connect to the same database. So, it shares that same backend, but the reporting services itself can also be configured. On the application level, for reporting level. And it is, based on my own experience, it is a manual effort to make sure that the reporting servers are configured the same across the environment."
"In this solution, the cost should be reduced for the enterprise edition."
"I would like the solution to add the scheduling feature for reports."
"We encounter some barriers while trying to build a report."
"The solution's interface is old."
"Technical support is in minor need of improvement so that they can solve problems in a more timely manner."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"One thing that frustrated us a little bit is that we have to use the Office PDF generation, because the native PDF generation is always slightly different compared to the one in Office. The formatting is just a little bit off here and there... This means that we need to have Office installed on the server to be able to generate these documents via API."
"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."
"A lot of clients who want to use this don't have the technical background for the SQL portion of gathering the data. If Windward were to make a more user-friendly SQL extract front-end, that would help a lot of clients to leverage the application a lot more."
"AutoTag needs to be web-based, so our customers can create reports from our web."
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Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services is ranked 8th in Reporting with 13 reviews while Windward Core is ranked 24th in Reporting. Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services is rated 7.6, while Windward Core is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services writes "Offers useful templates but needs to improve the connectivity offered". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Windward Core writes "It has streamlined a lot of our reporting processes". Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services is most compared with TIBCO Jaspersoft, Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, SAP Crystal Reports and Oracle OBIEE, whereas Windward Core is most compared with Docmosis, SAP Crystal Reports, Nintex Document Generation, OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting and CA Easytrieve Report Generator.
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