The Windward Reporting Engine

Using Windward Reports Engine, in conjunction with AutoTag, you design your own reports in Microsoft Word or Excel -- a program you know well. No more waiting for development resources! No more back-and-forth endless iterations! Just design and run the perfect report on-the-fly, whenever you need it.

To get started with Windward Reports, all your development team has to do is incorporate Windward into the company system. That’s it. The rest is up to you:

1. Custom design your own report in Microsoft Excel, Word, (or any word processing program).
2. Place data where you want it. If you know how to input tags yourself, you can do it that way. Or use our Word (or Excel) add-in, AutoTag, which drops the right tags wherever you need them. AutoTag shows you the data it will use for any sample dataset you point to. Place tags anywhere in the document. Tags can loop through sets of data, import images or other templates, or even perform simple calculations.
3. Finished! When your design is complete, simply upload the template to the location set up by your development team. Your report is ready to run – exactly as you designed it. Just select the output format you want: DOCX, XLSX, PDF, RTF, HTML, WordML, SpreadsheetML, XLS or TXT.

With you in control of the report design process, reports take hours, not days to create.

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Create virtually any type of report in Word or Excel.	Merge the created template with your data to create the final report.	Produce the final report in popular formats like pdf, rtf, xls, etc.

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Incorporating Windward Reports

Even though you’ll need to take a little time to set things up right, it’s easy to get started with Windward Reports. Here’s how:

1. Create an instance of a report object (in java or .NET), passing it the report template (an rtf or WordML file) as a stream.
2. Call the object once for each datasource. You can mix xml, sql, and your own custom datasources. Xml datasources are passed as a stream. Sql is passed as a set of connection parameters or a Connection object.
3. Call the object to format the final report and return a stream that is the final report. This final report can be in DOCX, XLSX, PDF, RTF, HTML, WordML, SpreadsheetML, XLS, or text.

The above steps are all calls directly into the Windward Reports.jar(java) or WindwardReports.dll(.NET) file. There is no server to be run.

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