Plotly Dash Enterprise vs Windward Core comparison

Plotly and Windward Studios are both solutions in the Reporting category. Plotly is ranked #18 with an average rating of 7.5, while Windward Studios is ranked #19. Plotly holds a 1.8% mindshare in RT, compared to Windward Studios’s 1.2% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Plotly users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Windward Studios users who would recommend it.

Plotly Dash Enterprise

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 2, 2025

Windward Core and Plotly Dash Enterprise compete in report generation and data visualization. Windward Core has an advantage in pricing and support, while Plotly Dash Enterprise leads with a richer feature set.

Features: Windward Core provides strong document generation abilities, flexible templating options, and is suitable for automated reporting in complex document structures. Plotly Dash Enterprise offers interactive data visualization, handles large-scale data efficiently, and provides extensive customization options.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Windward Core features straightforward deployment, rapid setup, and responsive support centered on template-based processing. Plotly Dash Enterprise demands a more complex deployment but benefits from comprehensive support and detailed documentation, focusing on data presentation flexibility.

Pricing and ROI: Windward Core features a lower setup cost with high ROI due to its efficiency in document automation. Plotly Dash Enterprise has a higher initial investment justified by advanced visualization and analytic capabilities, enhancing data-driven decision-making.

To learn more, read our detailed Plotly Dash Enterprise vs. Windward Core Report (Updated: December 2025).

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Categories and Ranking

Plotly Dash Enterprise

Ranking in Reporting

18th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Windward Core

Ranking in Reporting

19th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Document Generation Tools (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Reporting category, the mindshare of Plotly Dash Enterprise is 1.8%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Windward Core is 1.2%, 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 (%)
Plotly Dash Enterprise	1.8%
Windward Core	1.2%
Other	97.0%

Reporting

Featured Reviews

VenkateshJuloori

Founder & CEO at Ira

A flexible tool that offers an open-source version

It is a scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine to ten out of ten. In my company, there are around five resources that use the product. My company's clients use the product a lot on a daily basis. I use the product twice a week in my company before I get any call from our clients.

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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

"When reviewing and interpreting data, I typically examine it in a tabular form to understand its structure. However, when explaining or presenting the findings to others, I often use visualization tools such as Plotly. These tools allow me to create visual representations of datasets."

"It is a scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine to ten out of ten."

"The level of interactivity that the product provides is valuable to me."

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

"It's easy to create templates and reports using Microsoft Word, so we don't have to learn something new to create a template. That makes it very user-friendly... they have integrated the product with Microsoft Word. People can easily start working on it without too much training."

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

"Technical support is very good. They reply immediately and follow-up with any questions."

"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."

"The most valuable features are the ability for it to be integrated into our software solution and the AutoTag tool that allows us to quite quickly create and update the templates themselves."

"The ability for users to have design and layout control is also critically important. Without this ability, procuring report designs would represent a huge bottleneck. Report design tools also enable upsell opportunities for customized reports, with quick turnaround times."

"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."

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Cons

"The tool needs to improve its pie charts. Regarding Plotly, I find the online documentation somewhat challenging to navigate, especially when dealing with many parameters. Searching through thousands of parameters can be a tedious and less straightforward process. While the documentation is available online and serves its purpose, I often encounter difficulties in finding the information."

"I believe that the prices of the tool's paid services could be on the premium side, so the pricing model can be considered for improvement."

"The solution cannot be deployed on the website and shared with others through its own platform."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"There are some Excel formatting things that you lose when you implement a template: some default Excel validation scripts, macros. You could create them in Excel if you were just using Excel, but in creating a template that generates a report, some of those validation things are lost."

"It needs the ability to drill down in a single report (i.e., interactive) into data."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is an open-source tool. My company hasn't explored Plotly's premium services yet, but I believe the prices could be on the premium side."

"I only use the free tier of the product."

"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."

"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 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."

"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."

"They are fair and flexible. They are willing to work with your current architecture to make sure you have the best deal."

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

"From my experience in this field, the product is reasonably priced, at least with the RESTful engine implementation. It's definitely not a cheap option. People say, "That's a fair amount of money to pay for a document generation tool." At the same time, you do get good functionality and the support is 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."

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Financial Services Firm

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Plotly?

It is a scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine to ten out of ten.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Plotly?

It is an open-source tool. My company hasn't explored Plotly's premium services yet, but I believe the prices are on the premium side. I rate the product price as five or six on a scale of one to t...

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I believe that the price of the tool's paid services is on the premium side, so the pricing model can be considered for improvement.

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Overview

Plotly Dash Enterprise is a commercial platform designed for creating and deploying data visualization applications. It provides advanced tools and infrastructure to simplify the process of building interactive dashboards and analytics applications.

Plotly Dash Enterprise enables professionals to harness the power of Dash framework for enterprise-level scalability and deployment. By integrating seamlessly with existing workflows, it supports easy collaboration while ensuring robust data security. Users appreciate its ability to streamline the development of sophisticated visualizations that can be customized to meet specific analytical needs.

What are the standout features?

Customization Options: Offers extensive customization for tailored data visualizations.
Seamless Deployment: Facilitates rapid deployment of dashboards to servers or cloud environments.
Performance Optimization: Provides tools to optimize performance for handling large datasets.
Collaboration Tools: Enhances team collaboration with integrated sharing features.

What ROI factors should be considered?

Increased Productivity: Reduces development time with reusable components and templates.
Scalability: Supports scaling applications as data needs grow.
Cost Efficiency: Minimizes infrastructure costs through efficient resource management.

Plotly Dash Enterprise is employed in finance for real-time analytics dashboards, in healthcare for patient data visualization, and in marketing for customer insights. Its adaptability and ease of integration make it suitable across diverse industry applications where visual data analysis is critical.

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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.

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Sample Customers

Google, Goji, VIT, Smpl Bio, U.S. Air Force, C12 Energy, New York University

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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