Windward Reports - No Compromises

June 17, 2003
For Immediate Release

Windward Reports saves Time, Money as the only J2EE Report Generator to use Microsoft Word for Report Layout

Boulder, Colo. - When David Thielen and his development team sat down to design a new generation of J2EE-based reporting tools, they assumed that compromises would be needed to satisfy both the technical staff and the report users.

“It turns out compromise wasn’t necessary,” said Mr. Thielen, the president of Windward Studios. “We’re very pleased to have our customers tell us that Windward Reports delivers all their top Wish List items. In the words of Thomas Edison, we chalk that up to our ‘1% inspiration and 99% perspiration’ approach to inventing a better report generator.”

Mr. Thielen went on to explain that what report users wanted was more control of their reports. They didn’t want to wait around for a programmer to be assigned to their project, then have to settle for an end product that wasn’t quite what they had in mind.

Ideally, these users said, they’d like to generate reports themselves, but without the hassle of learning new software. They wanted a report generator as familiar as the software they used every day, like Microsoft Word...

“That’s when the lightbulb went off in our heads,” said Thielen. “Let’s let users design their own reports, using a tool they’d already mastered, namely Microsoft Word.”

That’s exactly what the Windward development team focused on -- a product that lets non-technical types use Microsoft Word to design reports, with great flexibility and little or no technical support.

This approach benefits many different areas: IT managers get a robust, plug ‘n’ play report server that frees-up technical staff for more demanding projects; reduced support workloads; faster report generation; and increased user satisfaction.

Thielen went on to say that “Windward Reports is very affordable, with savings of up to 158% when compared to Crystal Reports. Add that to the savings in user time and programmer man hours and you’ve got a very attractive, budgetsaving proposition.”

S.S. Mohanty, of Nucleus Software Exports Ltd., echoed Thielen’s sentiments and
went on to say that "... in March-2003, yesterday(April 1st) we have generated 1300 Customer Statement reports. As the customers are increasing day by day, my client projected a total of 10,000 customer statements next month."