Windward Reports is a family of enterprise-level reporting, document generation, and business intelligence software for business teams. It is comparable to other reporting software’s such as Crystal Reports

Crystal Reports

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, Pentaho

Pentaho

The Pentaho BI Suite is open source Business Intelligence suite with integrated reporting, dashboard, data mining, workflow and ETL capabilities. Pentaho is headquartered in Orlando, USA.- Overview :...

 and SQL Server Reporting Services

SQL Server Reporting Services

SQL Server Reporting Services is a server-based report generation software system from Microsoft. It can be used to prepare and deliver a variety of interactive and printed reports. It is administered via a web interface...

. Its customers include GE Industrial Equipment Services, Fidelity Investments and Pfizer Inc.

Windward has been positively reviewed in eWeek and DevSource.

Functionality

Windward Reports uses Microsoft Office

Microsoft Office

Microsoft Office is a non-free commercial office suite of inter-related desktop applications, servers and services for the Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems, introduced by Microsoft in August 1, 1989. Initially a marketing term for a bundled set of applications, the first version of...

 as its report template design tool. The core products it provides are:

• AutoTag - an AddIn for Microsoft Office used to design report templates.
• Windward Engine - an enterprise reporting & documentation generator
  Documentation generator
  A documentation generator is a programming tool that generates documentation intended for programmers or end users , or both, from a set of specially commented source code files, and in some cases, binary files....
  
   engine available in both a Java (software platform) and .NET Framework
  .NET Framework
  The .NET Framework is a software framework that runs primarily on Microsoft Windows. It includes a large library and supports several programming languages which allows language interoperability...
  
   version.
• Arrow - a SharePoint AddOn that provides reporting, document generation, and dashboards on the SharePoint platform.
• The Kailua Project (Open Source) - a set of extensions for the ADO.NET and TimeZone classes.

Data sources

Natively supports data from the following sources.

• Any Sql database (using JDBC on Java and ADO.NET, ODBC, & OleDb on .NET)
• XML from an XML file, url, etc.
• Sql Server Reporting Services RDL files.

Output formats

• File formats - PDF, HTML, DOCX, RTF, XLSX, XLS, PPTX, & TXT.
• Direct to a printer.

Media coverage

Cubicle Wars, an early marketing video by the company, received an overwhelming response when it debuted in 2006. With over 2 million views on YouTube

YouTube

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 and Digg.com the video become a small internet phenomenon, BusinessWeek

BusinessWeek

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’s August 2007 SmallBiz publication acknowledged the response with an article.