Windward Studios Blog

How Windward’s Document Automation Will Make Creating Documents Your Favorite Thing!

‍If you have ever experienced the pressure of having to create a lot of documents for a client and ensuring that they are error free, then you may have asked yourself if there isn’t an easier way to get that done efficiently with less time consumed.

Internationalization and Windward

Windward’s internationalization capabilities bring our first-class reporting and document generation functionality to organizations and their applications around the globe.

Report vs Document: What’s the Difference?

You may have heard a lot of people and companies use the terms “report” and “document” along the same vein as though they are identical and indistinguishable terms. While both of them rely on data, they are indeed as different as day and night!

Microsoft Word: 8 Practical Ways How it Turns Out to be an Awesome Report Template Tool

Transform your MS Word knowledge and experience into reporting prowess!You are already an expert at MS Word as it serves as a wonderful document platform.

Practical Reasons Why PowerPoint Should be Your Preferred Report Presentation Platform

A lot of time and effort goes into creating a presentation and at the end of it all, you would want it to be able to stand out, attract attention and also be as accurate as possible.PowerPoint is still the most favored program for designing presentations.

What Users Really Think About Windward Studios

Over the last year, Windward Studios has kept its spot as the top ranked document generation tool, according to IT Central Station’s user community.

PODs: Saving You Time by Streamlining Duplicate Work

Most documents require a company logo, a common header or footer, input parameters common across documents, and more. PODs can encapsulate each of these elements, and by dragging and dropping, be inserted directly into your template. Save time on the work itself as well as proofing and debugging, with confidence that all of your templates contain identical segments.

If/Else/Switch/Case Tags: Make Your Reports "Smart Documents"

Conditional logic can enable a single template to embody a very large number of permutations and combinations of content.Different body themes and formatting, including or excluding case specific content, outputting the correct content for data falling on a spectrum, and so much more

Boolean Condition Wizard

The Boolean Condition Wizard is a new Wizard in the Windward Report Designer that assists users in writing logical statements for tags that return a True or False value.

IKVM is alive & well

And supported by Windward

Windward's Version 16 Release

Windward's version 16 release has added Time Zone Conversion and powerful and easier to use datasets.

Data-Powered Documents

The terminology surrounding reporting and document generation can be confusing at best, and often misleading. We'll help clear up the confusion by focusing on features and applications rather than definitions. This short blog post includes a link to our free ebook "Data-Powered Documents."

Build vs. Buy – A Decision-Making Framework for Software Development

Virtually every development and product leader will face numerous build vs. buy decisions throughout their product lifecycle. The explosion of packaged point solutions, open source code, and frameworks means that there are multiple options for just about every component of a software project. Your choices will have immediate and long-term impacts on revenue, resources, customer...

Document Generation―Category, Segment, or Intersection?

We love to categorize things―from consumer goods and industries to animals and rocks. Software is no different. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of different types of software. Categorization is useful, but it can oversimplify a problem/solution to a point of confusion or even misinformation.

The Rise and Scourge of Point Solution Software

Software and its developers are nothing if not adaptable. When a gap or need is detected in the market, it’s only a brief matter of time before a new software solution appears to save the day. This is very good for businesses and consumers. But this proliferation of point solution software has given rise to another, less desirable phenomenon―the application stack.

What Can I Expect in Version 15.1, 15.2 and Javelin?

Version 15 has been mainly focused on its central theme of improving product usability. In the recent months, our development team has been hard at work improving several core features as well as creating new ones, all to make working with Windward smoother than ever.

My Vision for Windward – 4 Questions from a CIO

My vision is to create a company that can punch well above it’s weight. One that can create compelling products that are a revolutionary improvement. And all that comes down to the people and systems we put in place at work.

Why Company Core Values are So Critical

Core values are that values we have and we want to ensure they remain a part of the company. And we have subsequently worked to retain these values.

Windward Version 15 Sneak Peek

We’re gearing up to release the beta version of Windward 15 next week! Here’s a quick look at some new features we’re testing: SVG/PDF vectored output and an updated data connection wizard.

On Being a Wartime CEO

Here at Windward, we’re at war. We’ve got a phenomenal product: the one reporting and docgen product that users love. But it requires a full-on wartime approach to get that information out to people.

Announcing the Javelin Reporting Portal And Scheduled Reports

Windward Studios is proud to announce the release of the new Javelin reporting portal. Javelin is an online, out-of-the-box platform for running, managing and scheduling reports. It provides the necessary infrastructure for easily setting up your reporting processes.

JSON Report Generator and Document Generation

Windward is simply the easiest and most flexible JSON report generator. Create and manage an unlimited number of JSON reports/documents based on tables or queries.

XML for Reporting and Document Generation

Windward’s reporting software allows you to create and manage an unlimited number of XML reports based on XPath queries. The friendly wizard-style interface helps you select only the data you wish to view on your report, sort the data in any manner, export reports to all common formats, and much more.

MySQL Reporting and Document Generation

You can easily create and generate professional-looking reports and documents from your MySQL database with Windward’s powerful MySQL report writing tools, including document generation with easy design applications.

Oracle Reporting and Document Generation

If you want the easiest, most straightforward way to create professional reports from your Oracle database, including pulling data out of the Siebel schema, look no further than Windward.

PostgreSQL Reporting & Document Generation

Create and manage an unlimited number of Postgre SQL Server reports based on tables or queries. Take advantage of a friendly wizard-style interface to select only the data you wish to view on your report, sort the data in any manner, export reports to all common formats — and much more.

DB2 Reporting and Document Generation

Windward’s wizard-style interface allows you to select and sort only the data you choose in any manner you prefer. With Windward, you can also create and manage an unlimited number of table or query based reports and export them to every common format. There is no limit to what you can do with this DB2 reporting software.

Embedded Applications for Mobile Reporting

The Windward Engine includes Catapult, a help system that provides you with application samples designed to teach you how to use the Engine. Get your mobile app up and running in record time with the world’s most powerful reporting functionality.

Data Solutions for Software Providers

Whatever your software application does, the reports and documents generated by your customers are very much the public face of your hard work. The output is proof that your software does its job.

Windward Supported Programming Languages

Programmers: Whether you’re looking to create a Java, C++, C# (or any other .NET language), Ruby, Python, PHP, Visual Basic or PHP report — or something else — Windward has you covered. Why not work in the programming language you already know?

Microsoft Excel: 10 Reasons Why it's a Superb Report Template Tool

When you input your data into report templates designed and generated in Microsoft Excel, you can take advantage of all Excel has to offer—plus some additional benefits. Here are the top 10 reasons why Excel is an ideal reporting tool.

Comparison: Actuate BIRT vs. Windward

The Windward Embedded Solution and Actuate BIRT (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools) are two popular software tools used globally for template creation and document generation. Read about the similarities and differences in the two platforms.

Windward Solutions: Data Security

Windward works with the vast array of security protocols that exist in today’s world. In this blog post you will learn how we operate in regards to security as well as the reasoning behind our methodologies.

The Future of Reporting and Document Generation

Where is the reporting and docgen industry headed? The same place all other software is headed: SaaS. SaaS tends to be a better solution at lower cost. So it has moved from “everyone should do this” driving the early adopters and the software marketing departments to actually happening.

Features for Version 15

Small but mighty, Windward's Version 15 release features an updated data connection wizard, keyword color coding and an improved query tab.

Features for Version 14

Windward's Version 14 release add greats functionality and features to your reporting. Enjoy added support for Google Application Engine Integration to better handling for background images and colors.

Features from Version 13

Windward's Version 13 release will help take your reporting to the next level with a slew of add datasources: MongoDB, JSON, Cassandra, OData, Salesforce.com

How Microsoft Is Taking Over The Cloud

Microsoft Azure is accelerating past every other cloud infrastructure provider. Amazon, Apple, Google, Rackspace, and all the others are being left in the dust.

Don’t Count Microsoft Out (yet)

At Windward (my company) we know both Java and .NET really well. And every time we’ve written a server app, we’ve gone with .NET. Part of it is the .NET stack is better designed which can only happen if you have one company architecting the entire thing (the Java stack is a collection of products from different companies and open source efforts). But even more important is the support.

Getting Started on Azure

We’re doing some work on a new product on Azure and it’s been a learning process. For any of you that are just getting started, here’s what I’ve found to be the most useful information getting started.

Georgia Institute of Technology Crowned 2014 Windward Code Wars Champ!

Congrats to the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, a team of students Ben Cousins, Sadra Yazdanbod, Yijie Wang, and Zhongtian Jiang, who took home the coveted glass sailboat trophy this weekend!

It’s Here! The 2014 Windward Code Wars

Competition set for tomorrow at 10 am local time.

Windows Update Erroneous Error - Black Screen After Boot

I went to do my daily check of our external servers when I noticed that one that hosts several of our virtual machines was not responding.

Why we are deprecating Update PODs

We are planning to deprecate update PODs

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