We performed a comparison between Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services and Windward Core based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in Reporting."It is scalable."
"The solution is known for its robust security features."
"I like Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services' automated reporting feature."
"The SQL Server Reporting Services makes it very easy to get the data whenever we need it."
"We get good support from Microsoft."
"I am impressed with the product's seamless integration. It can work with different databases like Oracle."
"The initial setup is easy."
"It is a stable solution."
"It's easy to create templates and reports using Microsoft Word, so we don't have to learn something new to create a template. That makes it very user-friendly... they have integrated the product with Microsoft Word. People can easily start working on it without too much training."
"The integration with MS Office is an advantage, creating a better user experience."
"It's very feature-rich. You can create tables, you can create graphs, you can import pictures, and those features are also easy to use."
"Technical support is very good. They reply immediately and follow-up with any questions."
"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."
"From an integration perspective, they provide the code for you to easily integrate with existing applications."
"A useful, easy to use product, which has a lot of features for designing reports."
"The most valuable feature is that it provides good, dynamic document-generation performance and the documents are being generated reliably."
"I would like the solution to add the scheduling feature for reports."
"It is not easy to integrate the product with other tools in the market."
"The setup is difficult because you have to install different servers."
"Sometimes, we need to make sure that the configuration stays consistent across the reporting instances. They all connect to the same database. So, it shares that same backend, but the reporting services itself can also be configured. On the application level, for reporting level. And it is, based on my own experience, it is a manual effort to make sure that the reporting servers are configured the same across the environment."
"The solution's interface is old."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing model."
"In this solution, the cost should be reduced for the enterprise edition."
"It would be really nice to have better integration between the solution and Power BI."
"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."
"The next release could benefit from a cloud-based environment."
"Is there any way to avoid AutoTag loading in Word/Excel each time? I need to use it from time to time - quite rarely. AutoTag affects performance of Word/Excel. I do not want to install/uninstall AutoTag each time I need it."
"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."
"AutoTag needs to be web-based, so our customers can create reports from our web."
"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."
"It needs the ability to drill down in a single report (i.e., interactive) into data."
"The tool does not support macOS documents."
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Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services is ranked 8th in Reporting with 14 reviews while Windward Core is ranked 24th in Reporting. Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services is rated 7.6, 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, Nintex Document Generation and OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting.
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