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."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."
"I like Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services' automated reporting feature."
"We can create quality reports in real time."
"I'm very satisfied with the customer service. And usually, whenever we have any issue or details, we get to the person for the support. I'm really satisfied with the service. Within a few minutes or within a few hours, the support person will be available."
"I am impressed with the product's seamless integration. It can work with different databases like Oracle."
"We were able to embed the report builder within our internal proprietary systems, improving our reporting capabilities."
"The SQL Server Reporting Services makes it very easy to get the data whenever we need it."
"It is scalable."
"The most valuable feature is that it provides good, dynamic document-generation performance and the documents are being generated reliably."
"Some of our clients are looking at the nested filtering which is coming out. That's going to be a huge benefit for them because they're going to be able to nest and loop while they're also looking at filtering out certain data elements."
"From an integration perspective, they provide the code for you to easily integrate with existing applications."
"Windward helped automate reports which otherwise would have needed IT to create and maintain."
"It has the ability to easily integrate into existing apps with little code. If you know how to use MS Office, you can create a report."
"A useful, easy to use product, which has a lot of features for designing reports."
"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."
"One of the things they added in the last two or three years is PODs, Portable Object Doclets. One of our clients said they wanted to use PODs. They're a good way to make some constructs modular and keep things in one place."
"The product could be improved by reducing the time it takes to build and deploy reports."
"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."
"In this solution, the cost should be reduced for the enterprise edition."
"We encounter some barriers while trying to build a report."
"We have had issues with the refresh interval since we have too many reports scheduled. Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services is also expensive."
"The product should improve its performance."
"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."
"Technical support is in minor need of improvement so that they can solve problems in a more timely manner."
"The reason it took us so long to get the system up and running is that the APIs could be improved a bit. It could be a little bit more interoperable with software, without having to do a lot of the heavy lifting that we had do to get it in."
"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."
"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."
"A lot of clients who want to use this don't have the technical background for the SQL portion of gathering the data. If Windward were to make a more user-friendly SQL extract front-end, that would help a lot of clients to leverage the application a lot more."
"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."
"The next release could benefit from a cloud-based environment."
"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."
"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."
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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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