We performed a comparison between Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services and Windward Core based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The SQL Server Reporting Services makes it very easy to get the data whenever we need it."
"We were able to embed the report builder within our internal proprietary systems, improving our reporting capabilities."
"The stability of SSRS has been reliable, with minimal issues encountered during our usage."
"I mainly use the solution for the ease of reporting and for executive dashboards."
"I like Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services' automated reporting feature."
"It is a stable solution."
"The solution's features are all just wrapped up in one nice easy package. I don't need a lot of toolsets to get everything I need done."
"The most valuable feature is that it provides good, dynamic document-generation performance and the documents are being generated reliably."
"The integration with MS Office is an advantage, creating a better user experience."
"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."
"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."
"You can use Microsoft Office as your designer interface. There is very little programming. You can have nontechnical people create reports."
"The most valuable feature is the Rich Text or TinyMCE in fields. For example, you have a text field but it is not a regular text field, it is a link. Inside this link, you can copy/paste everything: images, text, and tables together. After saving this field, you can pull it into the document."
"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."
"Managing templates through MS Word, as non technical users can manage output."
"The product could be improved by reducing the time it takes to build and deploy reports."
"Technical support is in minor need of improvement so that they can solve problems in a more timely manner."
"We encounter some barriers while trying to build a report."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing model."
"The setup is difficult because you have to install different servers."
"Tableau is more user-friendly because it doesn't need to do any extra programming. It has drag-and-drop functionality."
"In this solution, the cost should be reduced for the enterprise edition."
"It doesn't have quite the flexibility of a Tableau or something like that. Many users are more comfortable with Tableau and I'm not quite sure why that is right now, but it seems to be the case."
"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."
"AutoTag needs to be web-based, so our customers can create reports from our web."
"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 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."
"It is software, so there are always times where things don't work. Most of the time issues happen when trying to move to a new version. There might be problems with reports that were created in an older version, so either we have to make a tweak to the templates or we report it to them and get them to make an adjustment to their software."
"The tool does not support macOS documents."
"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."
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Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services is ranked 7th in Reporting with 16 reviews while Windward Core is ranked 24th in Reporting. Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services is rated 7.8, while Windward Core is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services writes "Offers useful templates but needs to improve the connectivity offered". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Windward Core writes "It has streamlined a lot of our reporting processes". Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, TIBCO Jaspersoft, Tableau, SAP Crystal Reports and Oracle OBIEE, whereas Windward Core is most compared with Docmosis, SAP Crystal Reports, OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting and Nintex Document Generation.
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