We performed a comparison between QlikView 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 most valuable aspect is its extensive library on Microsoft, providing a robust framework for implementation."
"Associative model - no more cubes."
"The in-memory feature gives us better insight. It's also easy to drill down into the information and select information."
"The integration with Salesforce has helped us gain access to crucial sales data in real-time."
"One of the good thing is that you can integrate different data source technologies. So you can model your environment without having any of our views running."
"QlikView is a scalable solution that multiple users can easily use."
"I had the option to prepare data myself instead of always having to depend on the data team."
"Its ability to build, very quickly, very complicated models."
"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."
"The design tool, with all of its features and sample output fidelity tests, and being able to work with JSON data and output PDF and HTML, were also both crucial."
"The usually the response is within one hour. The technical support will WebEx with you. I rate them as a 10 out of 10."
"From an integration perspective, they provide the code for you to easily integrate with existing applications."
"The most valuable feature is that it provides good, dynamic document-generation performance and the documents are being generated reliably."
"Technical support is very good. They reply immediately and follow-up with any questions."
"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."
"For the designer we use AutoTag which is a Microsoft Word plugin. In general, it's easy to use, it doesn't have a very steep learning curve. It's not difficult, for people who know Microsoft Office well, to start using the AutoTag tool... It feels just like you're in a Microsoft Office environment with some extra functionality."
"Sometimes the filters are disappearing, and I'm not sure why this is happening."
"There's room for improvement in the area of management's handling of concerns."
"They could improve the speed."
"There could be a feature to analyze the sales and accounting data of the client."
"Enhancing user-friendliness would be highly beneficial."
"Though the initial setup phase is simple, when it comes to the integration with the custom systems, the configuration and the compatibility sometimes take some more time."
"There is a lack of static PDF report generation and automatic resizing of the dashboard to fit the device."
"Needs improvement with UI transparency."
"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."
"I have to deal with VERY long lists of properties contained in our XMLs and it would be nice if Windward offered a way to alphabetize this property list."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Regarding AutoTag, we do notice that when you want to refactor a little bit of your template design or when you want to implement changes, sometimes you need a lot of clicks to get the change done. For instance... it would be helpful to be able to find all the identifiers with the old name and replace them with the new name. We haven't found a way to do that with the find-replace tool. Throughout the user-interface of Windward, you need a lot of clicks to get that done."
"AutoTag needs to be web-based, so our customers can create reports from our web."
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QlikView is ranked 5th in Reporting with 158 reviews while Windward Core is ranked 24th in Reporting. QlikView is rated 8.2, while Windward Core is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of QlikView writes "Useful for data visualization and business intelligence". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Windward Core writes "It has streamlined a lot of our reporting processes". QlikView is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Amazon QuickSight, SQL Server and TIBCO Spotfire, whereas Windward Core is most compared with Docmosis, SAP Crystal Reports, Nintex Document Generation, OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting and CA Easytrieve Report Generator.
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