Windward .NET Reporting Engine

The .NET Reporting Engine runs on one or more servers as part of your server-based application and can easily produce hundreds of thousands of .NET reports per day. The engine offers:

• An extremely fast process that generates reports in seconds
• A small memory footprint – no dedicated server required
• Data source compatibility that lets you use and intermix a variety of sources
• A simple and straight forward API— yet as powerful an engine as you'll find

Note: The server is a pure .NET (also available as pure Java) product and does not require Microsoft Office.

AutoTag - Report Template Designer

Design your .NET reports in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Because it's Office, non-programmers can design reports faster than with any other reporting product on the market. AutoTag offers:

• The ability to create custom reports with free form design
• Wizards that walk you through the report design process one step at a time
• Saved elements (template styles, pictures, charts, and more) that you can drag and drop into any report template

Together, the Windward .NET Reporting Engine and the AutoTag .NET reporting design tool reduce complexity, production time and total cost in generating reports in .NET.

Document Generation & Mail Merge

Windward is a natural fit for document generation. The .NET reporting engine delivers documents with blazing speed. Design your document in Word and pull in additional text and documents in seconds. You can also repeat parts of the document, include conditional parts of a document and much more.

Excel .NET Reports

When you design a .NET report in Excel, the template expands all references in the output. For example, SUM(C3:C3), where row 3 is repeated 20 times in the output for 20 rows of data, becomes SUM(C3:C22) when the report is run. All of your output formulas are still live, and output macros are evaluated and the result displayed. Windward also uses full Excel formatting – so you can have different formats for positive and negative numbers, currencies, and anything else you need.

PowerPoint .NET Reports

When creating .NET reports for a presentation, the natural design tool is PowerPoint. The engine lets you insert data in real time – so you can turn static presentations into dynamic ones with up-to-the-minute information.

C++

Windward gives you the option of implementing our .NET Engine in your own C++ reporting projects with the Windward C++ Wrapper.

C#

Windward gives you the unique ability to power your C# reporting projects with our .NET Engine by using the Windward C# Wrapper.

Visual Basic

Love Visual Studio but hate SSRS? No problem. If you use Visual Basic, you can plug our .NET Engine into your own projects using the Windward Visual Basic Wrapper.

Basic Incorporation

Implementing the .NET Engine is a simple process. This Basic Incorporation example shows how to create your first Windward Reports program with just a few lines of code.