Windward Core Scalability
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Hit Mistry
Vice President at PSC Group, LLC
The scalability is good. We started off with a few documents here and there. Now, we are all the way up to pumping out 7,000 to 10,000 documents a week.
The way that they've got it licensed is pretty good as well, as you can buy it by the core. So, if I buy a two-core license, and I feel that I need to scale up, I can always purchase another two cores to make it a total of four.
In my organization, there are probably over a dozen people using it, who are mostly developers. However, I've had folks on the business side across many of my clients use it. For example, I have a client who has over 40 people using it with about 90 percent of those 40 people from the business side.
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Juriaan Kloek
IT implementation consultant at BearingPoint Caribbean
With the RESTful engine, we are able to very easily scale, because the RESTful engine is set-up as a standalone service: we just call it with a Rest-message and it returns a document. We can send requests to that service from any application that we want and generate documents.
The Java Engine, on the other hand, needs to be installed on every instance of the product that we are building. Even though that integration would be preferable from a technical point of view because it would eliminate a lot of requests to another server, requests that create overhead, the business model simply is not scalable. We cannot pay for every instance that we install.
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Mike Horrocks
Vice President of Product Management at Baker Hill Corporation
We haven't seen any limitations in terms of scalability. Scalability is always one of the things that we look at. We want to be able to expand our client base and we also want our clients to expand. We've seen nothing that would indicate that we have to be concerned about that.
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March 2024
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Christopher Heinz
Sr. Systems Analyst at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
We barely use a fraction of the overall power of the product and we're going to be looking at ways to utilize the product in additional use cases now that we have this first sequence in hand. It's not a question of performance. It returns your product within seconds and it's very satisfactory.
Now there's a total of three people who work with Windward in my company. It's two office administrators and myself.
We use it every other week for contract generation. It used to take multiple days but now it takes just minutes. We have ample room for growth in terms of using the software more often and for more use cases.
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Jim Aiken
SVP, Product Development at HIGH LINE CORPORATION
We haven't encountered scalability issues with their product directly. With the way we implemented it, we've had some issues, so we're looking at trying to change it to more their standard way of implementing it, which should work better. We've had problems with the way we implemented it, and tied it in to our software, using that custom data source I mentioned.
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WimCuyvers
Owner at CNC Consultants
I haven't seen any potential limitations with Windward.
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Valarie King-Bailey
CEO at OTG
It's very scalable, it almost doesn't even need to be said. It can scale from a small system of five people to a large system with, say, 5,000 people. It's very scalable. It does the job as advertised.
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Neil Carroll
Product Management & Owner at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees
We have encountered some scalability issues, but these seem to be due to unknown server and environment setups. We have done a lot of testing and trial and error to improve this, which has been going very well.
View full review »Our elevator specs and proposals are very complicated documents; however, I have barely used the full spectrum of what Windward offers. I've got some ideas for using Windward to assist in generating some of my training PowerPoints.
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Solutionef0b
Solutions Architect at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
The scalability is pretty good. On our biggest days we now have to have three servers to handle the biggest loads - something like 10,000 documents per day. In general, it is not unusual to expect to have three servers supporting that sort of load.
Overall, it probably generates some 10,000 documents for us, at least, per month, if not more. That's just off the top of my head. As our customer base grows, and if we decide to use it in different parts of the business, we would consider scaling up and using the product further.
At this stage, it is part of a crucial project that we delivered, and it's a crucial component of that project. As long as our business grows, we will consider growing that component of it, as well.
So the scalability is good. I won't say it's excellent, but it's certainly quite good, at least a six or a seven out of ten.
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Technica6546
Technical Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
We have deployed on a maximum four-node cluster. We are using a Java server engine and we have deployed in multiple low-clusters. Four is the maximum at the moment that our clients are using, and it scales quite well.
There are some limitations to what the product can do on the deployed infrastructure, but it's not just the product, it's the infrastructure limitation as well. I haven't observed any scalability problems. We are using it on AWS and we can just scale up as per our requirements. I can't recall any problem caused by Windward.
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CliServ3298
Head of Client Evolution And Services at Axe Finance
You pay for scalability because there are limitations. You are limited in the number of reports generated per day. So it is scalable, you just have to pay more.
View full review »Since I've only been implementing it for a year, we haven't pushed it to its limits yet. I'll probably know more next year, and in the years to come, how scalable it is.
It seems as though it's going to be completely scalable for me, at this point. It doesn't seem like I'm going to hit a limitation for resources or anything like that. But again, this might be a hard thing for me to answer since we only implemented a year ago. I implemented it as a pilot last year for a new project, to prove that it was possible to do. It was very successful. And now it's starting to be scaled this year a little bit further. In the years to come, we'll continue to scale it further and further. It is possible I could hit some scaling thresholds it won't scale past. But at this point I'm not aware of them.
View full review »No issues with scalability.
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View full review »We ran multiple reports concurrently, to the volume that we're likely to see, and had no issues. Again our workload is quite unique in that it's not volume-based. We only have 800 potential users.
View full review »We generate a fairly low volume of concurrent reports, so not an issue.
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View full review »I have not seen any scalability issues, I have not seen a performance issues. Usually when we do, it has to do with the SQL portion of it.
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COO33ca
COO at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
No issues with scalability.
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Paul Fendley
Web Specialist
Have not run into any issues.
View full review »No, we did create a synchronised and flattened reporting database which allows us to provide as many reports as necessary without impacting main system performance though.
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Haleh Mehrabadi
.Net Developer - Data Analyst
No scalability issues.
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View full review »I think this is fine, but for now our external provider is doing prioritization for us so we don't have experience with this. But I think it is flexible enough. For now, we haven't had any problems with scalability.
View full review »No, not really.
View full review »Yes, unfortunately as Word/Excel are used to generate the reports, it suffers from the same issues as 32-bit Word/Excel.
View full review »We encountered no issues with scalability.
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Windward Core
March 2024
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