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Targit Decision Suite vs Windward Core comparison

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Targit Decision Suite
Ranking in Reporting
34th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Embedded BI (23rd)
Windward Core
Ranking in Reporting
19th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
36
Ranking in other categories
Document Generation Tools (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Reporting category, the mindshare of Targit Decision Suite is 1.3%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Windward Core is 1.3%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Reporting Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Windward Core1.3%
Targit Decision Suite1.3%
Other97.4%
Reporting
 

Featured Reviews

it_user289458 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Science Intern at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
I can now create more meaningful charts--radar, donut, pareto, scatter, range, point, boxplot, etc., but it doesn't support Linux or commodity hardware.
* The tool is very easy to use, we got on-premise training from Panorama, within days we were proficient enough to play with the tool. * The customer service is very responsive, they answered our queries. * I saw lot of people complaining about the lack of community forum, but they do have a forum which is quite active. * The tool is extremely easy to use, with a click you can import data and create the visualizations. * The things I like most is it supports variety of charts, I was quite bored with my previous BI tool which mostly supported bar, line and pie charts. I can now create more meaningful charts radar, donut, pareto, scatter, range, point, boxplot, etc.
CH
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.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The tool is extremely easy to use, with a click you can import data and create the visualizations."
"Working with Windward has probably increased our revenue by at least 200 to 300 percent."
"It's great; it's a good product, and for a relatively technical person, it's relatively easy to use."
"Customer Service: As good as the product is, the customer service is even better."
"This has delivered huge time savings across the business allowing more time to focus on development and growth opportunities."
"Windward has been able to produce a solution to every question or need that any customer has asked it to do."
"​A useful, ​easy to use product, which has a lot of features for designing reports."
"We can develop any report at least five times faster.​"
"You can use Microsoft Office as your designer interface. There is very little programming. You can have nontechnical people create reports."
 

Cons

"No support for Linux or commodity hardware. Limited support for big data analytics."
"Some drawbacks we have come across are getting the output formatting to match exactly how it is implemented within Word."
"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 could make the document creation performance faster. I'm not saying it's slow but it takes time to create the PDFs. If they could make it faster, that would be one area for improvement."
"The only problem with the pricing of Windward is the limitation on the number of reports generated."
"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."
"Some graphing capability could be improved and differences in layout for different formats (Word, PDF, etc.)."
"There is always room for improvement in the speed, especially with the complex, multi-line Excel spreadsheets. They made some improvements in the last version that are quantum-fold faster than when I first started. But there is always room for improvement there. You always want reports faster and faster."
"I would like to see examples included within the Wiki information to show how each function option could be used."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"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."
"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."
"​They are fair and flexible. They are willing to work with your current architecture to make sure you have the best deal.​"
"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."
"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."
"The cost is reasonable."
"I'm starting to hear clients squeal about the price of their software. The cost of the software has gone up."
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Top Industries

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Manufacturing Company
13%
Outsourcing Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Marketing Services Firm
10%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business20
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise8
 

Also Known As

Targit BI Suite
Windward, Windward Studios
 

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Sample Customers

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