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

Why Total Computer Group selected ActiveReports for its .NET reporting

Back in 2004, Al Perez and his team started working on the detailed architecture of the .NET application. A key item on their list was selecting the .NET reporting technology to use in their system. They evaluated a number of alternatives and finally shortlisted this other reporting tool and GrapeCity's ActiveReports for a comparative evaluation.

Al describes what happened next. He says, "The product we evaluated ActiveReports against was this other reporting tool. The other reporting tool blew our software installation up from 8 MB at the time to a big number! There was no comparison between this other reporting tool and ActiveReports and we sure are glad we made the right choice in selecting ActiveReports."

Al Perez
Chief Software Architect
Total Computer Group
http://www.totalcomputer.com/


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Why Interactive Intelligence selected ActiveReports for its .NET reporting needs

"In one case (with this other reporting tool), I was not even able to easily use their API to configure the data source, much less to manipulate data at run-time. Not only were their help and samples inadequate, it took their support personnel two days to return my call. Ultimately the solution they provided was nothing like their samples, and was so convoluted and non-intuitive as to render it unusable. All this was just to bind a report to a custom data source."

"Each of the other products I tried, though better than my dismal experience mentioned above, did not function as well or as easily as ActiveReports.....Moreover, in comparison with other products, we feel that ActiveReports enables us to deliver more tailored, informative, integrated, distinctly customizable, and better-looking reports."

Thomas Kashin
Team Lead, Client Group, Database and Reporting Team
Interactive Intelligence
http://www.inin.com/


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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.”

Microsoft Solution Brief on ActiveReports

Microsoft today published a Visual Studio Partner Solution Brief on the ActiveReports Reporting and Business Intelligence (BI) Suite by GrapeCity that will be available on Microsoft and GrapeCity-Data Dynamics web sites.

It features customer quotes, a historical perspective on .NET reporting and business intelligence (BI) challenges, and how ActiveReports and related tools from GrapeCity have helped customers solve the problems by tightly integrating with Microsoft Visual Studio for the .NET development plaftform.

Download the PDF version of the Solution Brief.

ActiveReports has great reporting functionality

ActiveReports has great .NET reporting functionality.

Development Manager,
Croatia

Nilesh Deshpande, Lightspeed Networks on dashboards capability of ActiveReports

"Reduces time to create reports, build dashboards."

Nilesh Deshpande,
System Architect,
Lightspeed Networks,
United States

Mark Donohoe, Intuisoft on Performance and Productivity of ActiveReports

“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
http://www.markdonohoe.com/

Mark Donohoe, Intuisoft on Flexibility of ActiveReports

“Working with ActiveReports, I’ve come to consider the process of report generation more like architecting a system. We’re able to treat separate reports, or sections of reports, as Lego pieces, so users can snap them together in any order they want. We build some pretty sophisticated reporting capabilities into our reporting engines--for example, advanced layout features, and the ability to process data programmatically as the report executes--and competitive products just can’t do what we need. In contrast, ActiveReports has opened up the doors to a tremendous range of possibilities.”

“As a developer, I really appreciate the luxury of working with a component as flexible as ActiveReports. We were trying to build in some pretty advanced reporting capabilities--for example, advanced layout features, and the ability to process data programmatically as the report executes--and competitive products just didn’t couldn’t do that.”


Mark Donohoe,
President,
Intuisoft
http://www.markdonohoe.com/