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

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

"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

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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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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“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
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