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Peter Fallon likes the combination of the ActiveReports Designer and the power to customize

2010-11-02T13:32:00.000-07:00

"I use ActiveReports because it allows me to combine the best of both worlds - a visual Designer coupled with the abiity to hand tune the reports to any degree using code behind, then compile the result into my app and present a professional print preview/export experience to my clients. The only way to get a more powerful reporting experience is to write pure GDI+ code.

And the same report code works on Windows Forms and ASPX systems. Fantastic."

Peter Fallon
Director,
Castle Software Australia

GrapeCity Announces ActiveAnalysis 2 for OLAP, Data Visualization and Business Intelligence Development in Microsoft Silverlight and .NET Framework - GrapeCity, inc. - pitchengine.com

2010-10-23T01:17:00.000-07:00

GrapeCity Announces ActiveAnalysis 2 for OLAP, Data Visualization and Business Intelligence Development in Microsoft Silverlight and .NET Framework - GrapeCity, inc. - pitchengine.com

Michael Hersey inherits ActiveReports, is greatly surprised and now uses it for just about everything

2010-09-28T11:27:00.000-07:00

"I originally purchased ActiveReports because it was required for the product I was working on. However, after using it for a very short time, I found myself integrating these great tools into just about everything I touched."

"These products have the most complete feature set, the most flexibility, and they are very user friendly and developer friendly. Thanks!"

Michael Hersey
Senior Software Developer,
Sherry Labs

ActiveReports uniqueness helps Knowledge Relay's sales

2010-09-28T11:08:00.000-07:00

"As a developer, I appreciate the flexibility of your products. As a business, we find the export formats and the end user designer to be invaluable. The uniqueness of the ActiveReports products have helped to boost our sales which is always a good thing."

Wendy Mathis
Software Engineer,
Knowledge Relay

Ericsoft switched to ActiveReports after running into licensing, performance and support issues

2010-09-28T10:59:00.000-07:00

"We were using Crystal Reports XI as our main report engine. Due to licensing problems, Crystal Reports doesn't offer an editor. It also has a massive setup that sometimes doesn't work.

This lead us to search for an alternative, and ActiveReports did all we needed a report engine to do. ActiveReports was lightweight, fast!!! and offered a working editor for its reports. The licensing system is great.

We also received technical support both directly and indirectly (via other postings) through the support forums. This benefit was also missing in case of Crystal Reports."

Stefano Rossi
Chairman,
Ericsoft

Orion Healthcare selects ActiveReports because of its features and licensing model

2010-09-28T10:41:00.000-07:00

We chose ActiveReports due to its full feature set, friendly licensing model for web-based applications, and ease of development. Having a unified reporting platform across all of our products (both desktop and web) in a single engine was helpful, and the royalty-free deployment with cross-browser (flash) viewer support in version 6 is great!

Aaron Christian
Director of Software Development
Orion Healthcare Technology

Panatech finds ActiveReports power unmatched by other reporting tools

2010-09-20T13:15:00.000-07:00

"We are embarking on a Web project that demands nothing less than outstanding reporting capability for both looks and functionality. And because we are a small shop of less than 5 people, we need it to be easy—and quick.

For anyone not familiar with the internal functionality of ActiveReports in its own right, they are in for a giant, pleasant surprise! Compared to all the other report writers out there, ActiveReports just blows the doors off of them.

Having ActiveReports is like having a high-powered portable electric drill when everyone else is using a manual screwdriver.

Hands-down, ActiveReports and GrapeCity support have been a mission-critical resource and a key reason for our success in our Web venture.

Henry Fiorentini
President
Panatech Computer Management, Inc.

Henry Fiorentini considers GrapeCity's technical support a mission-critical resource for his business

2010-09-20T12:01:00.000-07:00

“I would like to thank all the folks at ActiveReports and GrapeCity for their phenomenal support these past few months....The .NET and Visual Studio realm is completely new to us, making GrapeCity’s support all the more critical and impressive."

"The email-based technical support has been exceptional. At times, they have even helped me code features that are clearly not part of supporting their product per se, but they helped me implement these in a timely, efficient, and classy manner. Hands-down, ActiveReports and GrapeCity technical support have been a mission-critical resource and a key reason for our success...”

Henry Fiorentini
President
Panatech Computer Management, Inc.

Warren Besore feels ActiveAnalysis is more intuitive and better integrated with Visual Studio than competing products

2010-09-20T11:15:00.000-07:00

"I purchased the data analysis product because it has more intuitive features and better integration with Microsoft Visual Studio than competing products. Thanks to the new ActiveAnalysis 2 version with Silverlight support and the improved documentation, I plan to begin using it in several of our systems."

Warren Besore
Technical Director
BTech

ActiveReports helps a small team to deliver a best-in-class product

2010-09-15T18:32:00.000-07:00

"We use ActiveReports because of the ease of use and the ability to directly control the SQL for data retrieval. We also find the ActiveReports designer provides the tools to produce rich and graphically pleasing reports very quickly. In a small production shop, we have ActiveReports to be the best product on the market."

Larry Harker
IT Manager
Association of Oregon Counties

ActiveReports helps Wesley Witt manage Boy Scouts events

2010-09-15T15:18:00.000-07:00

"I actually use ActiveReports to develop a comprehensive application for the Boy Scouts that manages large events. I would not have been able to create this application without ActiveReports. I have use ActiveReports since the 3.0 release. I have found that ActiveReports is very easy to use, preforms well for me and give me all the features that I need.

Thanks for developing such a great product."

Wesley Witt
Seattle Area Boy Scouts Organizer and Mentor
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft

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Erin Arroyo finds both Spread and ActiveReports easier to use than the competition

2010-09-15T14:47:00.000-07:00

"We purchased the Spread controls since they were better and easier to use than the Microsoft Grid controls in .NET. We purchased the ActiveReports product because it was easier to use than Crystal Reports. We also liked the option of the end user reporting which allows the end users to customize the reports in their layout because every team in our organization likes to display their reports a little differently ."

Erin Arroyo
Senior Developer
Geomentum

TallySoft uses ActiveReports, Data Dynamics Reports and ActiveAnalysis for all their reporting and BI needs

2010-09-09T11:59:00.000-07:00

"In the previous version of our product, we used Crystal Reports and ActiveReports. Crystal was an un-stable nightmare while ActiveReports was solid and easy for our developers to design.

When moving to .Net/ASP we wanted the same stability while adding a report designer and interoperability with Microsoft RDL (if possible). After researching competitors we felt comfortable that Data Dynamics Reports was the best choice. The added ActiveAnalysis product looked good as well so we purchased both. However, we have not yet implemented ActiveAnalysis.

We are currently designing with Data Dynamics Reports and find the same consistent quality and reliability that we experienced with ActiveReports. There are some features that we would like to see (open the designer interaces more to the developers instead of the Black Box) but overall we are comfortable that we made the right choice."

John Gielarowski
President/CEO
TallySoft, Division of Point Of Sale Technologies, Inc.

Why Robert Ripp switched to Data Dynamics Reports and Spread

2010-09-08T08:15:00.000-07:00

"I turned to GrapeCity products when competitive offerings did not work for us. Our product is a spreadsheet based application with heavy reporting features. We tried to use Crystal Reports but its user interface was terrible and support nonexistent. The moment we switched to Data Dynamics Reports, I knew we had a winner - it was 1000% better than Crystal Reports.

Similarly, we replaced Infragistics UltraGrid tool with Spread for Windows and had a similar experience: dramatic improvement in performance, features, and coding efficiency. In both cases, we've gotten timely feedback from the support forums.

I've been very pleased with these products and look forward to continued new releases."

Robert Ripp
Chief Executive Officer
Fintelligent, LLC
Full Case Study.

Philippe Jolidon combines the best of ActiveReports and Spread in their .NET applications

2010-09-05T23:41:00.000-07:00

"We have have purchased ActiveReports and Spread for Windows Form.

ActiveReports was integrated into our first .NET application. ActiveReports was the product we found on forums that offered the best quality/price factor and is convenient for delivering high quality embedded documents for our Pharma customers. We still enjoy using ActiveReports!

We have been using Spread from the time we developed our software using C++ and as soon we migrated our products migrated to .NET, we started using Spread for Windows Forms. Spread delivers a unique grid layout for our software solutions and lets us add user interface components to the grid layout."

Philippe Jolidon
Software Engineer R&D
JAG Jakob AG Prozesstechnik

Chris White finds dynamic reporting easy to do with ActiveReports

2010-09-05T01:22:00.000-07:00

"The reason I purchased ActiveReports was because Crystal Reports did not have the functionality we required. There was no way to dynamically author the content of the report with Crystal Reports. With ActiveReports, this was easy to do."

Chris White
Software Development Manager
Key Traffic Systems

Brian Macomber likes ActiveReports features and flexibility

2010-09-05T01:16:00.000-07:00

"I switched to ActiveReports right after starting to use Crystal Reports. Haven't looked back since. ActiveReports works much better, doesn't require COM and being able to do code behind gives me much more flexibility."

Brian Macomber
Development Manager
Synergiance, INC

GrapeCity announces ActiveAnalysis 2.0 Beta with Freeform Data Analysis and Data Visualization for Microsoft Silverlight

2010-08-17T11:09:00.000-07:00

The world’s first freeform data analysis and data visualization component for Windows Forms and ASP.NET adds Silverlight support and Excel export

MORRISVILLE, NC — GrapeCity today announced the availability of ActiveAnalysis 2.0 Beta, formerly known as Data Dynamics Analysis. The world’s first freeform data analysis component for Windows Forms, ASP.NET and Silverlight allows developers to rapidly embed out-of-the-box OLAP, data visualization, and ad hoc business intelligence (BI) features into their applications.

Designed for Microsoft Silverlight 4, the latest version supports printing and the use of context menus within Silverlight. The Silverlight support allows .NET developers to rapidly embed out-of-the-box interactive, cross-browser data analysis and visualization features into their applications.

Another significant feature is the support for exporting the onscreen data to Microsoft Excel for offline analysis. End users can export the onscreen data, including encoded values and exports it to a format that allows them to further analyze or manipulate the data in Excel.

Major new features include:

• Silverlight based out-of-the-box cross-browser data analysis capabilities
• Excel export for offline analysis on the desktop
• Intelligent processing of numeric and date data to display more information in less space
• Automatic selection of the correct visual representation based on the data type
• Accelerated information discovery and analysis for end users

Commenting on the release, James Johnson, the GrapeCity PowerTools Product Manager said, “By enabling Silverlight based data analysis combined with Excel export, the product effectively allows developers to benefit from the centralized deployment and distribution of their Silverlight based web application while giving users the rich client experience they get with traditional desktop tools.”

The release version of GrapeCity ActiveAnalysis 2.0 will be available for Windows Forms, ASP.NET and Silverlight. Prices start at $999, with site licensing and annual maintenance available.

About GrapeCity

Founded in 1980, GrapeCity is an international award-winning Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, a premier Visual Studio Industry Partner and the world’s largest provider of developer components. The company has more than 850 employees and tens of thousands of customers worldwide. For over 25 years, GrapeCity has provided enterprises around the world with state-of-the-art developer tools and components, software services and solutions. For more information, visit http://www.gcpowertools.com/ .

Chris Barker appreciates GrapeCity's support for ActiveReports

2010-08-11T13:57:00.000-07:00

"ActiveReports has always been great to use and integrate into my development projects. There is a small learning curve because the product can do so much for the software developer. I appreciate all that GrapeCity has done to maintain and extend ActiveReports, and look forward to many years of continuous use of the ActiveReports product and others that are of use in my development projects."

Chris Barker
Developer
Barks N Bytes, LLC

ActiveReports provides UK's Lovetts with competitive advantage and customer satisfaction

2010-08-11T13:20:00.000-07:00

"Lovetts plc is a market leading commercial debt recovery law firm in the United Kingdom. We have a reputation for technical excellence that has been built over many years and has allowed us to both gain and retain clients over and above our competitors.

Some years ago we were looking at options to be able to provide a reporting suite for clients through CaseManager, our client extranet. Preliminary investigations narrowed the field of potential products down to Crystal Reports and ActiveReports.

Since ActiveReports is written in .NET and integrates so well with existing C# code, it was the clear winner. The ability for our developer to be able to customize reports and make use of existing .NET modules considerably sped up the development process and has also allowed us to be more responsive to client demand. This has allowed us to provide our clients with a full reporting suite - a facility that is much appreciated by our clients!"

Andrew Dancy
IT Manager,
Lovetts plc.

Jim Bullington likes the ActiveReports reliability and robustness

2010-08-11T13:08:00.000-07:00

"Over the years, the ease of use, ease of distribution, and reliability of ActiveReports has significantly reduced the effort required for business reporting development. I cannot imagine developing reliable, robust, business applications without ActiveReports!"

Jim Bullington
James Bullington Consulting Services

Licking County successfully leverages fast performance and flexibility of ActiveReports

2010-08-11T12:52:00.000-07:00

Licking County IT Services Department wanted a reporting tool that could replace all existing tools and reports, was fast and easy to customize for their complex reporting needs. They selected ActiveReports after evaluating their current tools and potential alternatives. The resulting solution and effective customer support has helped them to recover high returns on their investments.

"We wanted a product that was flexible and easy to use and we have found that in the ActiveReports product. We haven't found a report yet that we couldn't get created in ActiveReports. We love it!"

"Even though there is quite a bit of code to process and massage the data, the report still generates in mere seconds. I have a hard time believing that this particular report could be accomplished with any other product on the market today."

Trent Snow
Senior Programmer Analyst
Licking County ITS

Read the full ActiveReports case study and other case studies.

GrapeCity’s Spread and Data Dynamics Reports allow Fintelligent to provide a superior financial planning solution

2010-08-10T22:00:00.000-07:00

Fintelligent is a company that provides software and services that help growing companies to improve their financial performance through better financial planning. After careful evaluation, for reporting, they selected the Data Dynamics Reports product as it offered the best combination of features and value.

Robert S. Ripp, CEO of Fintelligent, LLC writes:
“Whether providing summary-level documents for a board of directors presentation, or detailed variance reports for line managers, the Data Dynamics Reports engine provided all the tools we needed to provide great looking reports.”

As Robert writes again:
"We were very happily surprised by the level of support we received as we implemented our reporting solution. Our experience with GrapeCity led to our decision to replace our UI Grid control with Spread for Windows Forms."

Spread for Windows Forms proved to be the exact fit for their sophisticated user interface requirements that included easy data entry and numerical analysis, with the added benefit that the end users were already familiar with the Excel style spreadsheet user interface and that made the adoption among the end users easier.

Robert concludes by writing:
“We switched to Spread for Windows Forms and the improvement was dramatic. Not only was the application more stable, but we had a ton of new out-of-the-box features that required very little customization to work properly.”

LPA Corporate Solutions finds the performance, flexibility and zero royalty of ActiveReports invaluable

2010-08-10T11:28:00.000-07:00

Grupo LPA is a subsidiary of LPA Corporate Solutions. It's Image Account Payables (IAP) solution uses Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and Business Process Management (BPM) from IBM FileNet, and connects to a JDE Accounts Payable module to enable imaging, workflow and control. GrapeCity's ActiveReports powers the reporting features while saving time and money.

Luis Lobo Borobia, the Software Development Manager says:
“We will continue to use ActiveReports whenever we need reporting in our solutions. It has been a big time and money saver.”

Read the full ActiveReports case study and other case studies.

ActiveAnalysis allows InfoPlanIT's users to go beyond reporting with ad hoc data analysis

2010-08-10T10:50:00.000-07:00

"Our solution allows users to analyze real time data and discover anomalies in their transaction data. The Data Dynamics Analysis (soon to be ActiveAnalysis 2.0) product allows our users to rediscover their data in a way that no reporting product can do.

The value that it delivers after learning how to use it is invaluable. Users are able to build charts and spreadsheets with very little effort. Our clients that know how to use the shelves and markings absolutely love it. They can easily build charts and spreadsheets by dragging and dropping database columns on the display."

Lucas Hardbarger
Software Developer
InfoPlanIT, LLC

GrapeCity is SD Times Top 100 Industry Leader

2010-06-17T21:49:00.000-07:00

The SD Times 100, 2010: A Noble Gathering of Leaders, announced by the SD Times Editorial Board.

SD Times announced their Top 100 industry leaders for 2010 in categories ranging from Web, Web 2.0 & Rich Internet Applications to Agile & Collaboration, from Tools & Frameworks to Quality Assurance.

GrapeCity was ranked among the top leaders in the "Components & Libraries" category. Read more.

http://www.sdtimes.com/content/article.aspx?ArticleID=34383&page=10

Why Melmarc chose ActiveReports for its .NET reporting

2010-05-14T16:59:00.000-07:00

"I considered Crystal Reports and several other products, the names of which now escape me. In all, I looked at four products. Ease-of-use and the ability to have multi-level subreports were the two main considerations. I evaluated the four products by obtaining demo versions and using them to create test reports. ActiveReports stood head and shoulders above the other three products. I knew of the support and track-record of the company by word-of-mouth."

Rod Pick,
Software Designer and IT Manager,
Melmarc Products

Why the Oklahoma Student Loan Authority switched to ActiveReports for their .NET reporting

2010-05-04T09:58:00.000-07:00

"We purchased ActiveReports to replace our other tool because of pricing, licensing and capabilities. ....We wanted to find something that was easy to use when creating the reports, that wasn’t cost-prohibitive, and that worked well with Visual Studio.When I came to my current place of employment, we needed reports with the data formatted in ways that this other reporting tool couldn’t handle. We purchased ActiveReports on my recommendation.

"Creating the type of reports that I’ve created using ActiveReports with this other reporting tool would have been extremely cumbersome, if not impossible, to do."

I also love having the ability to write VB.NET code within an Active Report and how it integrates so easily into Visual Studio. That alone has cut down on development time because there is such flexibility to manipulate the output based on certain conditions. It makes the maintenance of code a lot easier too."

Molly J. Fagan
Senior Applications Specialist,
Oklahoma Student Loan Authority
Read the full ActiveReports case study and other case studies.

Why Total Computer Group selected ActiveReports for its .NET reporting

2010-05-04T09:53:00.000-07:00

Back in 2004, Al Perez and his team started working on the detailed architecture of the .NET application. A key item on their list was selecting the .NET reporting technology to use in their system. They evaluated a number of alternatives and finally shortlisted this other reporting tool and GrapeCity's ActiveReports for a comparative evaluation.

Al describes what happened next. He says, "The product we evaluated ActiveReports against was this other reporting tool. The other reporting tool blew our software installation up from 8 MB at the time to a big number! There was no comparison between this other reporting tool and ActiveReports and we sure are glad we made the right choice in selecting ActiveReports."

Al Perez
Chief Software Architect
Total Computer Group
http://www.totalcomputer.com/

Read the full ActiveReports case study and other case studies.

Why Interactive Intelligence selected ActiveReports for its .NET reporting needs

2010-04-29T18:50:00.000-07:00

"In one case (with this other reporting tool), I was not even able to easily use their API to configure the data source, much less to manipulate data at run-time. Not only were their help and samples inadequate, it took their support personnel two days to return my call. Ultimately the solution they provided was nothing like their samples, and was so convoluted and non-intuitive as to render it unusable. All this was just to bind a report to a custom data source."

"Each of the other products I tried, though better than my dismal experience mentioned above, did not function as well or as easily as ActiveReports.....Moreover, in comparison with other products, we feel that ActiveReports enables us to deliver more tailored, informative, integrated, distinctly customizable, and better-looking reports."

Thomas Kashin
Team Lead, Client Group, Database and Reporting Team
Interactive Intelligence
http://www.inin.com/

Read the full ActiveReports case study and other case studies.

GrapeCity at the Visual Studio 2010 Virtual Tech Summit

2010-04-07T12:17:00.000-07:00

Connect live with GrapeCity's ActiveReports and Spread team members at the FIRST-EVER Microsoft-CodeProject Virtual Tech Summit on Visual Studio 2010 to be held online on April 12th! Best of All! It's FREE!

GrapeCity is a Gold Sponsor and Exhibitor at the event.

At this virtual event you can explore, network, and learn from the experts on the latest and greatest version of Microsoft Visual Studio. From the convenience of your desk, enjoy the following:

Instructional sessions on Visual Studio 2010 from the industry experts
Interactive chat rooms
A virtual tote bag with must-have programming resources
Virtual exhibit hall with the newest and latest products and services
Free prize giveaways!!!

Attend the live session (with a killer demo!):
Decision Support Systems - Transforming Your Data Into Information using ActiveReports, Spread and Data Dynamics Analysis.

Presenters:
Robby Powell, Group Product Manager, Spread Products
Keith May, Director Of Development

GrapeCity at Visual Studio 2010 Virtual Tech Summit

2010-04-07T11:40:00.000-07:00

Connect live with GrapeCity's ActiveReports and Spread team members at the FIRST-EVER Microsoft-CodeProject Virtual Tech Summit on Visual Studio 2010 to be held online on April 12th!

GrapeCity is a Gold Sponsor and Exhibitor of the event.

Highlights include:
Free Registration and Free prizes from Microsoft, GrapeCity and other vendors
Live chats with team members

Attend the live session (with a killer demo!):
Decision Support Systems - Transforming Your Data Into Information using ActiveReports, Spread and Data Dynamics Analysis.

Presenters:
Robby Powell, Group Product Manager, Spread Products
Keith May, Director Of Development

Register now! It's FREE!

GrapeCity at the Visual Studio 2010 Launch

2010-04-07T05:25:00.000-07:00

Meet GrapeCity's ActiveReports and Spread team members at the Microsoft-DevConnections Visual Studio 2010 Launch Conference and Expo to be held in Las Vegas from April 12 - 14.

GrapeCity is a Silver Sponsor and Exhibitor at the event.

Visit us at Booth# 319, Win FREE products and enter to win $500 cash!

This is how it works.

Come to our booth and get an entry card and you get one chance to enter the $500 cash giveaway on the final day. If you ask to see a product demo, you get five cards to increase your odds of winning!

You must be present in the booth during the prize drawing to win the cash prize.

Featured Products

Spread for Windows Forms
Spread for ASP.NET
ActiveReports
Data Dynamics Reports
Data Dynamics Analysis

Want to meet up and discuss something? Just walk up or set up an appointment.

Have a great event!

GrapeCity wins Multiple Awards from ComponentSource

2010-03-30T12:33:00.000-07:00

ActiveReports and FarPoint Spread are ComponentSource’s #1 best-selling .NET reporting and spreadsheet products, and GrapeCity is the #1 software publisher in Japan and #3 globally

Kirkland, WA - March 30, 2010 - GrapeCity announced today that ActiveReports and FarPoint Spread, two award-winning products from their PowerTools Division have won multiple awards from ComponentSource®, the world's largest marketplace for reusable software components and development tools.

ComponentSource’s Top 100 Awards for 2009 rate leading software publishers and their individual products according to the total dollar value of orders placed globally by its customers during the year.

Example awards won by GrapeCity and its products – ActiveReports and FarPoint Spread are:
2009’s Top 100 Bestselling Products AwardsActiveReports for .NET — Ranked #1 in Japan, #7 in Top 10 Worldwide
FarPoint Spread for .NET Windows Forms — Ranked #2 in Japan, Top 25 Worldwide
FarPoint Spread for ASP.NET — Ranked #8 in Japan, Top 50 Worldwide
2009’s Top 100 Bestselling Publisher AwardsGrapeCity (Japan) — Ranked #1 in Top 5 Publishers
GrapeCity (Worldwide) — Ranked #3 in Top 5 Publishers
These and other awards make ActiveReports and FarPoint Spread #1 best-sellers on ComponentSource in their respective categories.ActiveReports—World’s #1 best-selling .NET/COM reporting tools
FarPoint Spread— World’s #1 best-selling .NET/COM spreadsheet components

Commenting on the GrapeCity awards, Sam Patterson, ComponentSource CEO, said, “ComponentSource® is pleased to announce that GrapeCity has won multiple ComponentSource Bestselling Publisher and Bestselling Products Awards for 2009-2010. These awards are based on the total dollar amount of orders placed by our customers over the past year through our three offices located in Atlanta, GA, USA, Reading, England and Tokyo, Japan.”
Patterson went on to say, “Given their world-wide popularity and claim to the title of ’World’s largest component developer,’ GrapeCity prides itself on providing state-of-the-art, technically solid products.”
Commenting on GrapeCity’s success, Rick Williamson, General Manager of GrapeCity’s PowerTools Division, said, “We would like to thank ComponentSource for acknowledging our contributions. We are committed to rapid innovation and creation of even more business value for our customers. We will continue to work with channel partners such as ComponentSource to help grow the developer components industry worldwide.”

Jeff Penchoff likes both ActiveReports and Spread

2010-03-12T14:27:00.000-08:00

"As a long time user of your Spread COM product I have always been pleased with the flexibility and user friendly aspects of the control and it is great to see that your (Spread)Windows Forms control continues this tradition!"

"Now that you are part of the same company which created ActiveReports (another product I have been a user of for a long time) I look forward to creating feature rich applications which will benefit my customers and my company. Excited to get started!"

Jeff Penchoff
Manager of Software Development
Asset Systems, Inc
http://www.assetsystems.com

Lee Armitage appreciates ActiveReports technical support going out of their way to help him

2010-03-12T14:07:00.001-08:00

"I would like to let you know that your technical support representative has gone out of his way to help me convert a large quantity of reports that were created in an ActiveReports version from 6 years ago into your most current version. He was always professional, courteous, and most of all expedient in his work to get them converted."

Lee Armitage,
Software/Database Engineer,
Linx Software, Inc.
Tucson, Az

Meet GrapeCity at Microsoft PDC

2009-11-12T09:13:00.000-08:00

Join us at GrapeCity's Booth #815 at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) from November 17th, 18th, 19th, where both ActiveReports and FarPoint Spread team members will be present to preview latest technologies and answer your questions.

The FarPoint Spread team will be there to showcase Spread 5 for Windows Forms beta, to be launched in December. It's a great time to attend the premier Developer Conference by Microsoft and meet the people behind our products.

Or you can just say hello and play some Bingo, we are giving away a total of $1000!

If you are already registered for the PDC, see if there’s still time to register for the Birds-of-a-Feather sessions. We’re giving away the grand prize of an HDTV!

It's not too late to attend! You can register from the PDC Site.

Join us at the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Virtual Tech Briefing

2009-10-24T08:05:00.000-07:00

Join us, along with Microsoft, for the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Virtual Tech Briefing, a one-day virtual event showing you what you need to know about this new release – just out in beta.

Following the Microsoft presentation, we will be presenting our session entitled, “Deliver Complete .NET Business Intelligence Solutions by combining Spreadsheets, Reporting and Data Visualization in Microsoft Visual Studio”.

This session will for the first time ever, bring together world class development tools and components such as ActiveReports and FarPoint Spread, both by GrapeCity in one single demo to show how to rapidly develop business intelligence applications with Microsoft Visual Studio.

Registration is free! Register now at CodeProject.com - http://www.codeproject.com/webcasts/vs2010Beta/

GrapeCity sponsors .NET Community Event at PDC

2009-10-22T06:02:00.000-07:00

GrapeCity will be the Grand Prize Sponsor for the INETA Birds-of-a-Feather Community Roundtable at the Microsoft PDC on Tuesday, 11/17 from 6:00-7:00 pm. GrapeCity will be donating a HDTV as the grand door prize at the event.

INETA provides structured, peer-based organizational, educational, and promotional support to the growing worldwide community of Microsoft® .NET user groups.

Learn more about INETA web site, ActiveReports and FarPoint Spread set of award-winning, best-selling .NET spreadsheet, and .NET reporting and business intelligence tools for Microsoft Visual Studio.

GrapeCity acquires FarPoint Technologies

2009-09-17T21:54:00.000-07:00

GrapeCity today announced that it has executed an acquisition agreement with FarPoint Technologies, Inc., developer of world’s best selling and award-winning Excel-compatible spreadsheet software components for Microsoft’s development platform. Under the terms of the agreement, GrapeCity will be purchasing all FarPoint products and the resulting revenues.

The decision was taken based on a long standing relationship between the two companies since the very first time the FarPoint Spread VBX component was launched for Microsoft Visual Basic over a decade ago. Since that time, GrapeCity has exclusively localized, marketed, sold and supported FarPoint Spread in Japan making it one of their top selling component product in Japan.

GrapeCity is also the world’s largest component developer and seller by company size and revenues. So when the time came for FarPoint owners to carefully weigh their options aimed at growing worldwide even beyond the success it enjoys today, joining GrapeCity was a logical next step.

The FarPoint team, just like the Data Dynamics team last year will become part of GrapeCity and continue serving mutual customers. All FarPoint Product Managers, Sales and Marketing personnel and other FarPoint team members will continue the good work under the GrapeCity name starting October 1st, 2009.

This is great news for customers of both Data Dynamics and FarPoint as it brings together two technology pillars - "Reporting and Business Intelligence" and Excel compatible "Spreadsheet technologies" that form the underpinning of most data processing and data visualization needs of today's business users. Customers can look forward to seeing more synergies between the two product lines in the months to come even as both product lines will continue to grow in exciting ways.

To learn more, read the joint press release, and more coverage by SD Times and the Visual Studio Magazine.

ActiveReports 6 and the GrapeCity Factor - A look back and what to expect in future

2009-07-15T10:48:00.000-07:00

With the soon to be launched ActiveReports 6, this seems an appropriate time to take a step back and look at what the GrapeCity acquisition has meant for Data Dynamics and what it implies for the future.

The ActiveReports 6 launch marks a major milestone in two respects. Firstly, it is a reflection of the commitment to not only continue the product development and support but in fact, take ActiveReports, Data Dynamics Reports and Data Dynamics Analysis to the next level in terms of their strategic direction and overall product features, quality and support.

Read the full article on the ActiveReports Blog.

About GrapeCity and ActiveReports

2009-07-13T17:34:00.000-07:00

When GrapeCity acquired Data Dynamics late last year and the GrapeCity name started appearing in all Data Dynamics promotions, it was a relatively unknown name for a number of customers who probably wondered who GrapeCity was.

As it turns out, GrapeCity's name is very familiar to a number of US and international Component and Developer Tool vendors.

Read the full article.

Microsoft Case Study on ActiveReports

2009-07-08T23:11:00.000-07:00

Microsoft today released a new Case study highlighting Precision.BI's use of ActiveReports and other .NET reporting and Analysis tools from GrapeCity-Data Dynamics to speed the delivery of a new Healthcare Business Intelligence product to its customers.

Precision.BI needed powerful analysis and reporting components for its healthcare business intelligence solution. The company found what it needed in third-party components from GrapeCity, including functionality that enables users to explore huge quantities of data and to generate rich reports on an ad hoc basis. Precision.BI plans to continue taking advantage of GrapeCity’s rich components and excellent support as both companies migrate their software to Microsoft® Silverlight™ 3.
Read the full Case Study (PDF).

ActiveReports rapid XML processing options

2009-07-02T06:58:00.000-07:00

Chillisoft describe in their latest blog on how they leverage the flexible code model of ActiveReports to roll an optimized XML+XSLT solution.

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ActiveReports provides the XMLDataSource option for sourcing your data from xml. My knowledge of all its ins and outs is not substantial, but I ran into two significant problems in a recent project which led me towards an alternative, innovative approach.

The first problem is that an xml document does not guarantee a structure like a database does. Xml’s flexibility in the layout of elements is beautiful on one hand but hard to fit into a report that expects a fixed structure.

The second problem in my case was the use of sub-reports to cover for different structures in the xml document. I won’t get fully into the detail, but where an element holds recurring sub-items, you can use sub-reports to list all the items. The trouble is that a significant number of sub-reports kill your report generation performance. I had a particular problem where my first report would take 15 seconds to generate on the server, and then degrade by another 5 seconds every time I ran it again. This is of course totally unacceptable for a frequently used report.

Here then was my innovation … combine ActiveReports and XSLT. ActiveReports provides the RichTextBox, which has an Html property to which you can assign the Html you generate from your XSLT.

Read the full blog posting.

Microsoft Solution Brief on ActiveReports

2009-06-24T23:23:00.000-07:00

Microsoft today published a Visual Studio Partner Solution Brief on the ActiveReports Reporting and Business Intelligence (BI) Suite by GrapeCity that will be available on Microsoft and GrapeCity-Data Dynamics web sites.

It features customer quotes, a historical perspective on .NET reporting and business intelligence (BI) challenges, and how ActiveReports and related tools from GrapeCity have helped customers solve the problems by tightly integrating with Microsoft Visual Studio for the .NET development plaftform.

Download the PDF version of the Solution Brief.

Win a Trip to Microsoft PDC!

2009-06-11T23:13:00.000-07:00

INETA is sponsoring the INETA Component Code Challenge, with the winner receiving a scholarship to Microsoft PDC 2009 in Los Angeles, CA. All you need to do is build the best application using one of ActiveReports, Data Dynamics Reports or Analysis product and another component.

The Details:

Build a .NET Application (WinForms, ASP.NET, WPF, Silverlight, Compact Framework, etc.) using at least 2 components from at least 2 different approved vendors (yes, GrapeCity is an approved vendor) then make a 3-5 minute Camtasia video showing your entry and describing what components you used and why your application is cool. The INETA judges will review the submissions and the best two will win a scholarship to Microsoft PDC 2009 in Los Angeles, CA, including air fare, hotel, and conference pass.

The submission deadline is 08/25/2009 at Midnight Eastern and the winners will be announced on 09/14/2009.

Entries will be judged on four criteria:

Effective use of a component to solve a problem/display data
Innovative use of components
Impact using components (i.e. reduction in lines of code written, increased productivity, etc.)
Most creative use of a component

See the contest page on the INETA web site for more details and full rules.

That’s it. So what are you waiting for? Show them how you are using ActiveReports or other GrapeCity-Data Dynamics products today and possibly win a free trip to PDC. Good luck!

Jeremy Yoder's team totally depends on ActiveReports programmability

2009-06-05T12:28:00.000-07:00

“Why do we use ActiveReports? In a word: Flexibility. There is simply no other reporting product on the market that allows so many elements to be altered programmatically. This enables us to make an end-user product that relies almost entirely on GUI interfaces, which we programmatically translate into fast running reports, whether it’s via customized control properties, our own report wizards, or dynamically created subreports, all of which are done by our users with a few mouse clicks.”

He further describes the "slick" development features in their reporting module built using ActiveReports that he is especially proud of:

1. Report Wizards
2. Dynamically created underlying queries (via a stored proc)
3. Control wrappers for use in the property grid (which uses the Tag field for customized properties)
4. Ability to create formulas that can be reused in different reports
5. Generate other labels and summary fields when user places fields on the designer
6. GUI interface for almost everything, including subreports with multiple links
7. Ability to filter each report “on the fly” before it’s run via pre-created filters and/or individual field selection
8. Generate crosstab reports after the user specifies the X, Y, and D fields, and possibly other fields on the designer
9. Customized toolbars: For placing report controls, editing control properties, and a treeview list of views/fields with multiple tabs based on field type
10. The user never writes scripts, but he does it programmatically for various features, such as tying to subreport, make numeric fields red if less than zero, etc.
11. User defined font defaults to apply by section as fields are placed on the designer or generated
12. Export/Import reports in their entirety with all relevant subtables into a single XML file
13. Ability to run reports in a “Void” format to show the report layout without exposing potentially sensitive data

Jeremy Yoder,
Software developer,
Software Unlimited, Inc.

ActiveReports 6 Beta Launch!

2009-06-03T07:26:00.000-07:00

We are happy to announce that ActiveReports 6 beta is now available for download on the GrapeCity-Data Dynamics web site.

The Standard Edition of this premier .NET reporting tool features new Report Designer enhancements that make it even easier to design reports. New Designer features include Cross-section Controls, Snap Lines, In-line Text Editing, support for repetition patterns, image annotations, and a number of Text and Label enhancements.

It also features new Bar Code Control support for Reduced Space Symbology (RSS) Bar Codes and External Stylesheets for sharing look and feel between reports.

The Professional Edition gets even more powerful and easy to use for end users with:

1. A First-time Flash based Report Viewer
(Click on the image to see full screenshot)

2. Advanced PDF reporting features such as support for Adobe's Digital Signatures and version timestamps
(Click on the image to see full screenshot)

3. Redistributable End User Report Designer help for End Users

4. Nifty toolstrip controls for the End User Report Designer.

Learn more on the Download Page.

GrapeCity-Data Dynamics in Europe

2009-05-23T22:47:00.000-07:00

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

2009-05-12T21:51:00.000-07:00

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

2009-05-12T06:12:00.000-07:00

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:

75% said the .NET reporting features are above average or well above average in their helpfulness to developers.
77% said the overall quality of the .NET reporting components is above average or well above average.
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

2009-05-12T06:03:00.000-07:00

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

2009-05-10T21:56:00.000-07:00

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

Vedrun Hudec, Croatia on ActiveReports .NET reporting

2009-03-22T23:53:00.000-07:00

ActiveReports for .NET reporting was a great solution which in that moment was the number One we needed.

Vedrun Hudec,
S/W Developer,
Croatia

ActiveReports has great reporting functionality

2009-03-22T23:48:00.000-07:00

ActiveReports has great .NET reporting functionality.

Development Manager,
Croatia

Comparing ActiveReports with Crystal Reports

2009-03-22T23:43:00.000-07:00

ActiveReports .NET reporting is easier to integrate with web applications than Crystal Reports.

Software Programmer, USA

ActiveReports is very stable

2009-03-22T23:39:00.000-07:00

ActiveReports is very stable and it looks great!

Software Engineer, Switzerland

About ActiveReport's flexibility

2009-03-22T23:36:00.000-07:00

I like the flexibility of ActiveReports .NET reporting.

Software Engineer, USA

Larry Harker, Oregon Counties on report events

2009-03-22T23:30:00.000-07:00

I like the ability to add code in report events.

Larry Harker,
IT Manager,
Oregon Counties
USA

About product excellence

2009-03-22T23:23:00.000-07:00

I choose Data Dynamics products because they are excellent products!

Software Engineer, Mexico

I went for Data Dynamics Reports because it is the reporting tool for the future

2009-03-22T23:14:00.001-07:00

It was a throw up between ActiveReports Professional for .NET and Data Dynamics Reports (DDR). I went for Data Dynamics Reports because it is the .NET reporting tool for the future.

Software Engineer, UK

ActiveReports has the right combination of configurability and out of the box functionality

2009-03-22T23:10:00.000-07:00

ActiveReports has the right combination of configurability and out of the box functionality. Features allow many options for how solutions are implemented. Wish we had been able to upgrade sooner to the .NET reporting version. Look forward to doing that...

Enterprise Architect, USA

About ActiveReport's flexibility, ease of use and speed

2009-03-22T23:06:00.000-07:00

I have selected ActiveReports because of its flexibility. very simple to use and much more faster...

Senior Software Engineer, Bangladesh

ActiveReports met our specific set of requirements

2009-03-22T22:58:00.000-07:00

ActiveReports met our specific set of requirements when almost no other product would.

[Developer, Large Logistics Company]

Quote on ActiveReport's Visual Studio integration and ease of development

2009-03-22T22:47:00.000-07:00

ActiveReports was the first fully functional, 100% managed code reporting solution for .Net reporting that also integrated into the Visual Studio IDE with ease. 100% managed code makes deployment a breeze; flexible object graph makes development a walk in the park.

[Wishes to be Anonymous]

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

2009-02-06T13:53:00.000-08:00

"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

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

2009-02-05T17:53:00.000-08:00

"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.BIhttp://www.precisionbi.com/

Mark Donohoe, Intuisoft on the Fun Factor of ActiveReports!

2009-02-05T17:46:00.000-08:00

“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

2009-02-05T17:43:00.000-08:00

"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

2009-02-05T17:40:00.000-08:00

"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

2009-02-05T17:38:00.000-08:00

"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

2009-02-05T17:33:00.000-08:00

"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

2009-02-05T17:29:00.000-08:00

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

2009-02-05T17:25:00.000-08:00

"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

2009-02-05T17:23:00.000-08:00

"ActiveReports is a mature and robust product."

Ray Gabriel,
President,
IMDC
United States

Nilesh Deshpande, Lightspeed Networks on dashboards capability of ActiveReports

2009-02-05T17:10:00.000-08:00

"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

2009-02-05T17:07:00.000-08:00

"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

2009-02-05T17:05:00.000-08:00

"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

2009-02-05T17:02:00.000-08:00

"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

2009-02-05T16:59:00.000-08:00

"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

2009-02-05T16:45:00.000-08:00

"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

2009-02-05T16:07:00.000-08:00

"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

2009-02-05T16:04:00.000-08:00

"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

2009-02-05T16:03:00.001-08:00

"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

2009-02-05T16:01:00.000-08:00

"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

2009-02-05T15:57:00.000-08:00

"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

2009-02-05T15:55:00.000-08:00

"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

2009-02-05T15:53:00.000-08:00

"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

2009-02-05T15:44:00.000-08:00

“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

2009-02-05T13:15:00.000-08:00

“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

2009-02-05T00:18:00.000-08:00

"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

http://www.precisionbi.com/

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

2009-02-04T15:59:00.000-08:00

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

http://www.precisionbi.com/