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OpenText Intelligence vs Windward Core comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 29, 2026

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

OpenText Intelligence
Ranking in Reporting
29th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.7
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (37th), Data Visualization (24th)
Windward Core
Ranking in Reporting
19th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
36
Ranking in other categories
Document Generation Tools (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Reporting category, the mindshare of OpenText Intelligence is 1.5%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Windward Core is 1.3%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Reporting Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Windward Core1.3%
OpenText Intelligence1.5%
Other97.2%
Reporting
 

Featured Reviews

it_user220707 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director & Lead Consultant at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
The Briefing Book feature enables measures to be filtered and viewed based on different criteria by end users.
This software is targeted at executive users, not the data analysts who want to slice and dice. The software will not replace your BI tools, but it will sit nicely on top of a BI tool if you want management to have quick and easy access to performance data. Initiative Management Metrics Management – Key Interfaces
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Sr. Systems Analyst at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Strong layout and design capabilities; leverages every aspect available in Word-native formatting
The licensing key is a little bit twitchy. I'd like to see more HTML formatting support in templates. It has a basic stock of HTML formatting capability, but it doesn't have a rich vocabulary. I have to work around that sometimes. The help documentation and blog posts are extensive, but not always up to date. The error reports also need improvement. If you don't key it in right, it's a little hard to find the root cause. It gives you information as much as it can, but it doesn't really hone in and tell you explicitly what you should do to correct the problem.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"It is a comprehensive solution for performance management, and yet it is easy to setup and easy to use, especially in comparison with Oracle, SAS, Hyperion and SAP."
"A part of our business is to produce static report which we give to our clients, and this product serves this purpose very well."
"Overall, we don't have any problems with Windward, and that's why we've had it for eight years; otherwise, we would have changed it."
"We currently have over 5000 files active in our system, so this saves the user a lot of time."
"For me so far the Windward document generation software is the preferred solution for creating documents."
"It's very feature-rich. You can create tables, you can create graphs, you can import pictures, and those features are also easy to use."
"They've been really helpful, from the account manager all the way through to the support people."
"The design tool, with all of its features and sample output fidelity tests, and being able to work with JSON data and output PDF and HTML, were also both crucial."
"Their customer service is quite good."
 

Cons

"It needs to have better quality built in reports."
"I'm still working in Office 2016, and we have had some issues, but Windward is very quick to react when there is a problem. We are also going to switch over to Office 365 and that will solve a few of the problems."
"​The tool does not support macOS documents."
"Is there any way to avoid AutoTag loading in Word/Excel each time? I need to use it from time to time - quite rarely. AutoTag affects performance of Word/Excel. I do not want to install/uninstall AutoTag each time I need it."
"Some graphing capability could be improved and differences in layout for different formats (Word, PDF, etc.)."
"One thing that frustrated us a little bit is that we have to use the Office PDF generation, because the native PDF generation is always slightly different compared to the one in Office. The formatting is just a little bit off here and there... This means that we need to have Office installed on the server to be able to generate these documents via API."
"Regarding AutoTag, we do notice that when you want to refactor a little bit of your template design or when you want to implement changes, sometimes you need a lot of clicks to get the change done. For instance... it would be helpful to be able to find all the identifiers with the old name and replace them with the new name. We haven't found a way to do that with the find-replace tool. Throughout the user-interface of Windward, you need a lot of clicks to get that done."
"Customer Service: Their ability to help us troubleshoot is too low – they really need to help us troubleshoot in our environment – not their testing environment."
"It needs better support for upgrades and more control over layout of elements. Upgrades tend to break existing output. Elements do not position where expected due to insertion of blank lines and page breaks. It takes time to fix these through trial and error."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"It is absolutely worth the value. They have flexibility, depending on what you're looking for from a buying standpoint. The current pricing models are quite flexible, with the ability to use it on an as-needed basis, or to get a perpetual license that covers a customer that might have extensive needs. I think it's pretty good."
"The pricing is very reasonable for what it provides. The report builder is about one grand per user... We are paying for a support contract, which is 20 percent of the price, but because the licenses are perpetual, I think the pricing is very reasonable."
"CapEx fits our requirements, OpEx is higher due to the 20% service and maintenance cost, where we normally pay 15%."
"Pricing is something I complain about. Production pricing is okay, but for a testing environment the pricing looks a bit high to me."
"Windward is very expensive when the volume of documents being generated is low and it is cheap when the volume is high."
"The cost is reasonable."
"The only problem with the pricing of Windward is the limitation on the number of reports generated. It is costly in that sense. If you want to increase, you have to pay more, based on the number of reports generated per day. It is not the same with Crystal Reports. With the latter, you buy a license at one point in time and that's it."
"We negotiated our prices many years ago, and while they go up a little bit here and there, they've been pretty steady."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
16%
Outsourcing Company
12%
Comms Service Provider
11%
Insurance Company
9%
Outsourcing Company
13%
Marketing Services Firm
11%
Construction Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
11%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business20
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise8
 

Also Known As

OpenText Magellan Analytics Suite, BIRT iHub Visualization Platform, OpenText Actuate Information Hub
Windward, Windward Studios
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Sasktel, NSBSL
HAL, Inc., Axe Group, White Clark Group, Blueprint Software, Aspect Security, Nucleus Software, LeBlanc’s Food Stores, South Sound 911, Aegon, Barclays, Fidelity Investments, ArisGlobal LLC, USDA, RepLink, AON Hewitt
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