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.

Why Robert Ripp switched to Data Dynamics Reports and Spread

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

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.”

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

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

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/

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

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

http://www.precisionbi.com/

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

http://www.precisionbi.com/