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

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

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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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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About ActiveReport's flexibility

I like the flexibility of ActiveReports .NET reporting.

Software Engineer, USA

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

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

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

Senior Software Engineer, Bangladesh

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.BIhttp://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

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

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

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

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