Why Melmarc chose ActiveReports for its .NET reporting

"I considered Crystal Reports and several other products, the names of which now escape me. In all, I looked at four products. Ease-of-use and the ability to have multi-level subreports were the two main considerations. I evaluated the four products by obtaining demo versions and using them to create test reports. ActiveReports stood head and shoulders above the other three products. I knew of the support and track-record of the company by word-of-mouth."

Rod Pick,
Software Designer and IT Manager,
Melmarc Products

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
Read the full ActiveReports case study and other case studies.

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/


Read the full ActiveReports case study and other case studies.

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/


Read the full ActiveReports case study and other case studies.

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

Lee Armitage appreciates ActiveReports technical support going out of their way to help him

"I would like to let you know that your technical support representative has gone out of his way to help me convert a large quantity of reports that were created in an ActiveReports version from 6 years ago into your most current version. He was always professional, courteous, and most of all expedient in his work to get them converted."

Lee Armitage,
Software/Database Engineer,
Linx Software, Inc.
Tucson, Az

Meet GrapeCity at Microsoft PDC

Join us at GrapeCity's Booth #815 at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) from November 17th, 18th, 19th, where both ActiveReports and FarPoint Spread team members will be present to preview latest technologies and answer your questions.

The FarPoint Spread team will be there to showcase Spread 5 for Windows Forms beta, to be launched in December. It's a great time to attend the premier Developer Conference by Microsoft and meet the people behind our products.

Or you can just say hello and play some Bingo, we are giving away a total of $1000!

If you are already registered for the PDC, see if there’s still time to register for the Birds-of-a-Feather sessions. We’re giving away the grand prize of an HDTV!

It's not too late to attend! You can register from the PDC Site.

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/

GrapeCity sponsors .NET Community Event at PDC

GrapeCity will be the Grand Prize Sponsor for the INETA Birds-of-a-Feather Community Roundtable at the Microsoft PDC on Tuesday, 11/17 from 6:00-7:00 pm. GrapeCity will be donating a HDTV as the grand door prize at the event.

INETA provides structured, peer-based organizational, educational, and promotional support to the growing worldwide community of Microsoft® .NET user groups.

Learn more about INETA web site, ActiveReports and FarPoint Spread set of award-winning, best-selling .NET spreadsheet, and .NET reporting and business intelligence tools for Microsoft Visual Studio.

GrapeCity acquires FarPoint Technologies

GrapeCity today announced that it has executed an acquisition agreement with FarPoint Technologies, Inc., developer of world’s best selling and award-winning Excel-compatible spreadsheet software components for Microsoft’s development platform. Under the terms of the agreement, GrapeCity will be purchasing all FarPoint products and the resulting revenues.

The decision was taken based on a long standing relationship between the two companies since the very first time the FarPoint Spread VBX component was launched for Microsoft Visual Basic over a decade ago. Since that time, GrapeCity has exclusively localized, marketed, sold and supported FarPoint Spread in Japan making it one of their top selling component product in Japan.

GrapeCity is also the world’s largest component developer and seller by company size and revenues. So when the time came for FarPoint owners to carefully weigh their options aimed at growing worldwide even beyond the success it enjoys today, joining GrapeCity was a logical next step.

The FarPoint team, just like the Data Dynamics team last year will become part of GrapeCity and continue serving mutual customers. All FarPoint Product Managers, Sales and Marketing personnel and other FarPoint team members will continue the good work under the GrapeCity name starting October 1st, 2009.

This is great news for customers of both Data Dynamics and FarPoint as it brings together two technology pillars - "Reporting and Business Intelligence" and Excel compatible "Spreadsheet technologies" that form the underpinning of most data processing and data visualization needs of today's business users. Customers can look forward to seeing more synergies between the two product lines in the months to come even as both product lines will continue to grow in exciting ways.

To learn more, read the joint press release, and more coverage by SD Times and the Visual Studio Magazine.

ActiveReports 6 and the GrapeCity Factor - A look back and what to expect in future

With the soon to be launched ActiveReports 6, this seems an appropriate time to take a step back and look at what the GrapeCity acquisition has meant for Data Dynamics and what it implies for the future.

The ActiveReports 6 launch marks a major milestone in two respects. Firstly, it is a reflection of the commitment to not only continue the product development and support but in fact, take ActiveReports, Data Dynamics Reports and Data Dynamics Analysis to the next level in terms of their strategic direction and overall product features, quality and support.

Read the full article on the ActiveReports Blog.