Windward makes it unbelievably fast & easy to automatically generate documents and create & edit templates that are visually appealing. Our best document generation software helps you design data-powered documents, spreadsheets, & PowerPoint presentations: either within your application, using our SAAS solution, or from your CRM or other web app. It’s so easy & powerful that our widely-used platform is the standard for document automation.
Template Designer - The Best Software for Creating Documents
Design your templates in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, & PowerPoint). These familiar and intuitive builders allow anyone to create and edit templates in a fraction of the time it takes with other document generator software. Simply build your desired layout and formatting using Office.
Our extension to Office helps you easily insert data tags directly into your content anywhere. This includes wizards, which make even complex queries easy for business users and developers alike. And PODS enables users to quickly and easily reuse applicable content from other templates, delivering consistency across all corporate documents.
And it's all in the template including your business logic. There is no programming or other efforts involved when you take advantage of our document templating software for automatic Word document generation.
Document Generation API
Integrate automated document generation software into your applications with the Windward Core. The Windward Core Engine enables you to precisely display the data you want, delivering a generated document with data specified using inserted tags and specified parameters.
The result is a beautiful, data-rich document fully customized to your specifications.
The engine is available in a JAVA, .NET, & RESTful (any programming language) versions. The engine can be integrated into your application with just 11 lines of code. With these universal, hard-working lines of code, paired with the template designer, you've added advanced document generation to your application.
Windward Hub is a complete web based hosted document automation software. Manage your templates so everyone is creating the correct documents. Schedule reoccurring documents in addition to generating documents on demand. Automate the delivery of the generated documents.
In addition, Hub is seamlessly integrated into the 11 most popular SAAS solutions. These applications lack the ability to produce well-formatted documents. Now with Hub's custom integration, users enjoy more powerful document automation capabilities with enhanced outputs. We help you take advantage of these features by adding amazing visual elements to your documents to make them more understandable and informative.
Windward is able to connect to 147 vendor's data, from Act to Zoho as well as standard SQL, JSON, XML, & OData datasources. In addition, a template can be populated from multiple datasources - simultaneously. You can cross-reference between datasources in your queries. This plus the power of Windward's designer delivers a document automation solution with no limitations - in design or datasources.
Datasources
Ready to merge your data with design? We make it as easy as possible, with nearly universal datasource support and seamless integration with just 11 lines of code. See all datasources here.
Programming Languages
It is possible to integrate Windward's solution into virtually any application regardless of language by using direct calls from the RESTful Engine. We make it as easy as possible to merge our solution with your application. See all languages here.
Output Formats
The Engine combines your Windward Designer templates with the data you need to create visually impressive data-powered documents in the most common document formats, 18 in total. See all output formats here.
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