Friday, February 6, 2009

Steven Lee feels that the GrapeCity staff helped him as if they were part of his own team


"You have been a great help in answering all my inquiries and I felt like you are part of my research team. Thanks!"



Steven Lee,
Sr. Software Engineer
Corinthian Colleges, INC.
http://www.cci.edu

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Daniel Reber, Precision.BI on ActiveAnalysis and Data Dynamics Reports

"In the case of Data Dynamics Analysis (now ActiveAnalysis 2), not only can end users view the data in both numbers and graphs, but we can easily modify the size, color, and other features of graphs to help them quickly grasp what's happening. No other component can do that."

"In the case of Data Dynamics Reports, it is the quickest way available to create reports, and you don't need to be a programmer to do it."

Daniel Reber,
Lead Architect
Precision.BI
http://www.precisionbi.com/

Mark Donohoe, Intuisoft on the Fun Factor of ActiveReports!


“Competitive products just don’t deliver that “Wow!” factor. If you move up to ActiveReports, It’s like you’ve been drawing with a black-and-white palette, and suddenly you’ve got a whole color palette available.

The reporting systems I’ve been able to create with ActiveReports are hands-down some of the best work I’ve ever done. ActiveReports makes reporting fun!”

”When I realized what I could do with ActiveReports, I was ecstatic!”

Mark Donohoe
President,
Intuisoft
United States
http://www.markdonohoe.com


Karl Costenbader, Competent Technologies on programmability of ActiveReports


"It is nice to be able to programmatically control our reports."

Karl Costenbader,
President/CEO,
Competent Technologies, Inc.
United States

Shibu, eSystems on the quality and flexibility of ActiveReports


"Good and flexible than other products on the market."

Shibu S R
Senior Software Engineer
eSystems Software Pvt Ltd
India

Sajith Nair, Kalkitech on ease of use of ActiveReports

"ActiveReports is an excellent and easy to use product with great features."


Sajith Nair,
Business Unit Manager,
KALKITECH India

Rodney Pick, Melmarc appreciates ActiveReports technical support


"ActiveReports is a very good product and we have always recieved great technical support."


Rodney Pick,
Software Designer / IT Manager,
Melmarc

Tom Kashin, Interactive Intelligence on the intuitiveness of ActiveReports


Here are my three favorite benefits.
(1) Active Reports for .NET 3.0 was the most flexible product to deliver reports using our non-traditional method of obtaining data.
(2) The fact that you can ship a designer component was also critical for us.
(3) The text-based output as well as the graphics package is very intuitive: I was able to have a complete report viewable, with graphs, within about 30 minutes of installation.

Tom Kashin,
Development Team Lead
Interactive Intelligence
United States

Sashkumar, InterTAC says ActiveReports has simply the best quality


"End product quality of ActiveReports is simply the best."

Sashekumar Muniandy,
Senior Software Engineer
InterTAC (M) Sdn Bhd
Malaysia

Ray Gabriel, IMDC on maturity of ActiveReports

"ActiveReports is a mature and robust product."

Ray Gabriel,
President,
IMDC
United States

Nilesh Deshpande, Lightspeed Networks on dashboards capability of ActiveReports


"Reduces time to create reports, build dashboards."


Nilesh Deshpande,
System Architect,
Lightspeed Networks,
United States

Molly Fagan, Oklahoma Student Loan Authority on ease of deploying ActiveReports


"ActiveReports is easy to develop, maintain and deploy."

Molly Fagan,
Senior Applications Specialist,
Oklahoma Student Loan Authority,
United States

Amjad Masoud, Grant Thornton on productivity benefits of ActiveReports


"ActiveReports helped me a lot in cutting down development time."

Amjad Masoud,
Assistant Manager,
Grant Thornton
KSA Saudi Arabia

Ernst Tamminga, XCESS on high quality and ASP.NET integration of Activereports


"ActiveReports has high quality and good integration with ASP.NET."

Ernst Peter Tamminga,
CEO,
XCESS expertise center b.v.
Netherlands

Ragnar Hellspong, Kundsystem on Visual Studio integration of ActiveReports


"The ability to use VB code in ActiveReport makes it possible to easily create even very complicated reports. Integrates beautifully with Visual Studio."

Ragnar Hellspong,
Software Developer,
Kundsystem
Sweden

Mark Meyer, MRDD Solutions on ease of use of ActiveReports


"ActiveReports was easy to setup when we added reporting to our application. ActiveReports allowed us to add all the features we needed."


Mark Meyer,
Programmer,
MRDD Solutions
United States

Simon Morris, Syntax Software on comparison with Crystal Reports


"I've found ActiveReports to be the ideal tool for presenting complex information my users. A client since September 1999, I have tried a number of other reporting systems, even having completed a training course for Crystal Reports, but none has been as good as ActiveReports."



Simon Morris,
Manager/Developer
Syntax Software Pty Ltd
Australia

Jack Addington on the history/track record of ActiveReports


"The reporting products seem open, easy, flexible, and moreover have a powerful trackrecord There is a long history with ActiveReports so I’m sure that other products inherit many of the good features / improvements."


Jack Addington,
Owner,
Alexander Gracie Consulting
Canada

Eddie Dillon, AgConnections on the flexibility of ActiveReports


"The ability to write code behind the reports has been critical to our business by allowing us the most flexibility in our reporting."


Eddie Dillon,
Software Developer,
AgConnections
United States

Joel Hoornbeek on flexibility of ActiveReports


"ActiveReports for .NET has allowed us to build flexible products."

Joel Hoornbeek,
Project Support,
Computer Outfitter, Inc.
United States

Aaron Dirks, Integrated Control Systems on the Value of ActiveReports


"It was a good value for what I needed as a reporting tool for my projects."

Aaron Dirks,
Vice President
Integrated Control Systems, Inc.
United States

Ron Hatfield, Flight Safety Corp. on the power and user interface of Data Dynamics Reports


"I learned of Data Dynamics at the spring Dev Connection Conference in Orlando Florida in March of 2008. At that time I was searching for a better way to do reports for our newly acquired Training Management System which is powered by SQL. The out of the box solution for reporting used an older version of MS Access. Additionally, the presentation/deployment of those reports was much less than I liked. I was searching for a solution that was powerful, flexible, with a GUI that made report development easy and convenient, but could also allow us new direction possibilities such as deploying our reports via a report viewer to the web (without having to re-create the wheel)."


Ron Hatfield,
TIMS Lead,
Flight Safety Services Corp.
United States

Brent Birsa, Mediacy on Business Reporting features of Data Dynamics Reports


"Dynamic Data Reports allows my clients with diverse interests the ability to visualize and present their findings without custom software or a separate presentation software. The end-user designer feature is paramount to creating a presentation of the end-user defined data. The layout of this presentation is very flexible allowing arbitrary placement of multiple lists of textual, numeric, chart and picture data without complex workaround found in other reporting software."


Brent Birsa,
Software Engineer,
Media Cybernetics,
United States

Mark Donohoe, Intuisoft on Performance and Productivity of ActiveReports

“ActiveReports has really been optimized for speed--it’s just incredible! Our multi-pass reporting engine outperforms even single-pass engines by a factor of 10 or more. I was able to create a fast, efficient, and agile reporting engine that can be easily integrated with other systems, on a variety of platforms.

Compared to competitive products, ActiveReports is like typing with both hands, versus trying to type with one hand chopped off and the thumb of the other missing, and you wonder, ‘Why can’t I type any faster?’”

“With ActiveReports, I was able to create a fast, efficient, and agile reporting engine that could be easily integrated with other systems, on a variety of platforms.”

Mark Donohoe,
President
Intuisoft Systems
http://www.markdonohoe.com/

Mark Donohoe, Intuisoft on Flexibility of ActiveReports

“Working with ActiveReports, I’ve come to consider the process of report generation more like architecting a system. We’re able to treat separate reports, or sections of reports, as Lego pieces, so users can snap them together in any order they want. We build some pretty sophisticated reporting capabilities into our reporting engines--for example, advanced layout features, and the ability to process data programmatically as the report executes--and competitive products just can’t do what we need. In contrast, ActiveReports has opened up the doors to a tremendous range of possibilities.”

“As a developer, I really appreciate the luxury of working with a component as flexible as ActiveReports. We were trying to build in some pretty advanced reporting capabilities--for example, advanced layout features, and the ability to process data programmatically as the report executes--and competitive products just didn’t couldn’t do that.”


Mark Donohoe,
President,
Intuisoft
http://www.markdonohoe.com/

Precision.BI considers the products and the technical support key factors in their success

"If I had had to create the entire solution from scratch, without the help of GrapeCity components, I simply wouldn't have been able to do it."

"Pretty much all our plans involve Data Dynamics Reports, Data Dynamics Analysis (now ActiveAnalysis 2), and ActiveReports, plus we may use other components as they come out. With the time savings and unique capabilities they provide—plus the great technical support we get —these components are a key part of our strategy."

"I've stayed with these products all these years because of their great technical support."

Daniel Reber,
Lead Architect,
Precision.BI

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Daniel Reber on ease of use of ActiveAnalysis and Data Dynamics Reports

One feature of Data Dynamics Analysis (now ActiveAnalysis) that Daniel Reber particularly appreciates is the ease of moving between numerical data and graphs and charts. "Not only can end users view the data in both numbers and graphs, but we can easily modify the size, color, and other features of graphs to help them quickly grasp what's happening," he says. "No other component can do that."

In the case of Data Dynamics Reports, he notes, "It's the quickest way available to create reports, and you don't need to be a programmer to do it."

Read the full Precision.BI case study.

Daniel Reber,
Lead Product Architect,
Precision.BI, LLC