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

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
Full Case Study.

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.”

GrapeCity at the Visual Studio 2010 Virtual Tech Summit

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

Register now! It's FREE!

GrapeCity at Visual Studio 2010 Virtual Tech Summit

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

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

1. Spread for Windows Forms
2. Spread for ASP.NET
3. ActiveReports
4. Data Dynamics Reports
5. 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

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

"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

Join us at the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Virtual Tech Briefing

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/