Plotly Dash Enterprise vs Windward Core comparison

Plotly and Windward Studios are both solutions in the Reporting category. Plotly is ranked #19 with an average rating of 7.5, while Windward Studios is ranked #23. Plotly holds a 1.5% mindshare in RT, compared to Windward Studios’s 0.9% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Plotly 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 Jul 27, 2025

Windward Core and Plotly Dash Enterprise are prominent players in the data visualization and reporting category. Windward Core is often preferred for its pricing and support, whereas Plotly Dash Enterprise attracts users seeking advanced features.

Features: Windward Core provides robust document generation, customizable templates, and seamless data integration. Plotly Dash Enterprise is known for its sophisticated visualizations, interactive dashboards, and focus on enhanced interactivity.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Plotly Dash Enterprise offers cloud and on-premises deployment options for flexibility, while Windward Core features straightforward integration and comprehensive support resources.

Pricing and ROI: Windward Core presents a budget-friendly model with attractive initial setup costs. Plotly Dash Enterprise, despite a higher upfront investment, promises significant long-term ROI due to its advanced capabilities.

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

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Categories and Ranking

Plotly Dash Enterprise

Ranking in Reporting

19th

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

23rd

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Document Generation Tools (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Reporting category, the mindshare of Plotly Dash Enterprise is 1.5%, up from 1.1% 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 (%)
Plotly Dash Enterprise	1.5%
Windward Core	0.9%
Other	97.6%

Reporting

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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

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

"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."

"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."

"Another thing our clients absolutely love is the ability to design templates within the Microsoft Office suite, because of how simple it is. They're building off of something that's familiar. When they can build off of that feature, on top of something that's very familiar, that's a plus for them."

"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 most valuable feature is the fact that it uses Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel as base templates, so when you generate, it's easy for clients to upgrade, and maintain, and generate out either a PDF or an actual Excel spreadsheet."

"The quality of the layouts and designs is second to none. Windward's ability to help us generate templates, for which we can actually tag documents, is the key feature that we use."

"The Windward solution was very fast to rollout, and it is proven."

"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 very important because it allows them control over the design and layout of their reports, without the help of IT."

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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."

"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."

"AutoTag needs to be web-based, so our customers can create reports from our web."

"The reason it took us so long to get the system up and running is that the APIs could be improved a bit. It could be a little bit more interoperable with software, without having to do a lot of the heavy lifting that we had do to get it in."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

14%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

18%

Performing Arts

10%

Computer Software Company

10%

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	19
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	8

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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What needs improvement with Plotly?

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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