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

"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

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

"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

"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

Orion Healthcare selects ActiveReports because of its features and licensing model

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

"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

“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.

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

"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

"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

"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

"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.

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

"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

"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

"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

Chris Barker appreciates GrapeCity's support for ActiveReports

"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

"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

"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

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

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

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.”

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Why Melmarc chose ActiveReports for its .NET reporting

"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

"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
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