We performed a comparison between Windward Core and Yellowfin based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"We ended up going with Windward for the level of support we got from them during our proof of concept."
"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."
"Technical support is very good. They reply immediately and follow-up with any questions."
"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 usually the response is within one hour. The technical support will WebEx with you. I rate them as a 10 out of 10."
"The Windward solution was very fast to rollout, and it is proven."
"Thanks to Windward, our documents need very few tweaks and are usually "customer-ready" right out of the box."
"It reduces time to reproduce reports, provides easy access to organisational data, and has the ability to generate a wide range of reports and analysis."
"It is able to create information dashboards for various users' throughout."
"It is a central source of up-to-date data and information."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The tool does not support macOS documents."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"It needs more presentation/charting capabilities and integration with GIS."
Windward Core is ranked 24th in Reporting while Yellowfin is ranked 30th in Reporting. Windward Core is rated 8.8, while Yellowfin is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Windward Core writes "It has streamlined a lot of our reporting processes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Yellowfin writes "Very scalable design and easy to implement. It can reside alongside more complex enterprise systems". Windward Core is most compared with Docmosis, SAP Crystal Reports, OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting and Nintex Document Generation, whereas Yellowfin is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Apache Superset and 9 Spokes.
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