GrapeCity-Data Dynamics in Europe

New UK Office to Allow Easier Access to Data Dynamics Products and Solutions

KIRKLAND, Wash.--(BusinessWire)--Data Dynamics, now part of GrapeCity, the world’s largest component developer, today announced the opening of West Sussex, England offices to best serve developers and IT professionals in Europe. While Data Dynamics has been selling globally for years, adding offices and staff in England reflect GrapeCity’s commitment to excellence in customer service and support and delivering the highest quality developer tools and components across Europe.

Commenting on the new announcements, Naoyuki Baba, GrapeCity President, said, “This is an important step forward as we try to get closer to our international customers and providing them with even greater value. We are confident that Neil Slater and his team of Europe based professionals will continue GrapeCity’s 25 year old tradition of excellent customer service and commitment.”

About the Products

ActiveReports is the award-winning .NET reporting tool used by Microsoft Visual Studio.NET developers for over a decade. It has over 50,000 registered users worldwide, and its user base is steadily growing.

Data Dynamics Reports is a new business reporting tool for .NET that allows developers to embed dashboards, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), Microsoft Excel transformations, and new user tools for business reporting in their .NET applications. The product supports and enhances the Microsoft SQL Server Reporting format, helping customers to get more from their investments in Microsoft technologies.

Data Dynamics Analysis was the first free-form data visualization component for Microsoft Visual Studio.NET. It enables .NET developers to embed free-form visual analysis and business intelligence for both structured and unstructured data into their .NET applications.

About GrapeCity
GrapeCity is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, an international award-winning software firm, and the world’s largest component vendor, employing more than 850 worldwide. The company’s corporate headquarters are in Japan, with US headquarters in Kirkland, WA. For over 25 years, the company has provided enterprises around the world with state-of-the-art software tools, solutions, and services to help them turn ideas into marketable products. For more information, visit www.grapecity.com and www.datadynamics.com

Billy McCafferty on MVC with ActiveReports

Billy McCafferty (twitter.com/devlicious) has written a great post on integrating ASP.NET MVC with ActiveReports for .NET.

He writes:

"A long time favorite PDF reporting tool of mine is ActiveReports for .NET. It's relatively painless to integrate into your project, has a great designer tool, and has plenty of power for more advanced reporting needs. When I started becoming an ASP.NET MVC zealot, I was afraid of losing the ability to use this great tool. With a little tinkering, I got it to play nicely within an MVC project and have included the steps below for future reference:"....

Read his full posting.

ActiveReports .NET Reporting and BI Tools Get High Ratings from Customers

Survey Results Highlight Flexibility, Ease of Use, Time Savings

KIRKLAND, Wash. GrapeCity, an international software development firm that recently purchased Data Dynamics, a developer of .NET reporting and business intelligence (BI) tools, today announced the results of a survey it just completed of Data Dynamics customers. The company reports that more than three quarters of survey respondents had highly positive reactions. For example:

1. 75% said the .NET reporting features are above average or well above average in their helpfulness to developers.
2. 77% said the overall quality of the .NET reporting components is above average or well above average.
3. 80% said they are satisfied or highly satisfied with the company and its .NET developer tools.

For more information, read the press release.

ActiveReports, Data Dynamics and GrapeCity win ComponentSource Awards

Earlier this year, ActiveReports, Data Dynamics and GrapeCity won a number of awards from ComponentSource, the world's largest component marketplace for being a best-selling product, and best-selling component developers. Other products such as Data Dynamics Reports also featured among the Top 100 downloads.

The awards won by GrapeCity and Data Dynamics are:

2008 Bestselling Products Awards
ActiveReports for .NET—Ranked #2 in Top 5 Products
ActiveReports COM/ActiveX—Ranked #26 in Top 50 Products
Data Dynamics Reports—Ranked #100 in Top 100 Products

2008 Bestselling Publisher Awards
GrapeCity-Data Dynamics—Ranked #4 in Top 5 Publishers
GrapeCity (Japan)—Ranked #5 in Top 5 Publishers

Read the press release for more information.

ActiveReports is asp.netPRO Award Finalist for 2009

ActiveReports is among the 3 finalists for the 2009 asp.netPRO Readers' Choice Awards in the Reporting Tools category. See update.