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PROS

Windward Core offers exceptional support, with response times usually within one hour, and provides quick integration with existing applications.
Its AutoTag tool streamlines report creation by integrating with Microsoft Word, enabling users to design and update templates efficiently without a steep learning curve.
The software's capability to automate report generation reduces the reliance on IT, improving turnaround times and enabling fast client updates.
Windward Core's compatibility with popular applications like Microsoft Word and Excel allows users to leverage familiar tools, making report design user-friendly and accessible to non-technical users.
The integration of features such as dynamic document generation, modular designs with PODs, and comprehensive template management provides users with versatile and high-quality layout capabilities.

CONS

Windward Core lacks a black-and-white ideal server setup, causing users to spend time configuring scalable solutions, which could be streamlined with an AWS-package server setup.
Windward Core's document generation side lacks a distribution feature, limiting the ability to send documents to recipients based on business rules, and making users manage template-recipient relationships manually.
Windward Core does not support macOS documents, leading to compatibility issues for users working on different operating systems.
Windward Core's performance and formatting suffer when generating PDFs, with discrepancies between native and Office PDF outputs, necessitating Office installation on servers.
Windward Core error reports need improvements as they lack precision in guiding users to correct issues effectively.
 

Windward Core Pros review quotes

CH
Sr. Systems Analyst at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Mar 31, 2021
The ultimate feature is the product it produces. The ROI around that saves hours and hours. It's probably about a hundred days per year. The time savings and the ability to turn it around quickly pleases our customers.
MH
Vice President of Product Management at Baker Hill Corporation
Aug 28, 2019
Another thing our clients absolutely love is the ability to design templates within the Microsoft Office suite, because of how simple it is. They're building off of something that's familiar. When they can build off of that feature, on top of something that's very familiar, that's a plus for them.
WC
Owner at CNC Consultants
Feb 5, 2020
The solution is very flexible, so you can create anything you want. Think of the possibilities you have in Excel or in Word, because these are the two document generators that are used the most. I only use Word, but I can use nearly every feature in Word, including making charts and tables, and produce those features in Windward, parametrically.
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JA
SVP, Product Development at HIGH LINE CORPORATION
Jan 17, 2020
The most valuable feature is the fact that it uses Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel as base templates, so when you generate, it's easy for clients to upgrade, and maintain, and generate out either a PDF or an actual Excel spreadsheet.
NC
Product Management & Owner at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees
Jan 10, 2020
The engine being able to sit inside of our firewall is the most important feature.
reviewer1255479 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Support Specialist at a construction company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Dec 23, 2019
Thanks to Windward, our documents need very few tweaks and are usually "customer-ready" right out of the box.
HM
Vice President at PSC Group, LLC
Jun 20, 2019
You can use Microsoft Office as your designer interface. There is very little programming. You can have nontechnical people create reports.
Feb 21, 2019
The quality of the layouts and designs is second to none. Windward's ability to help us generate templates, for which we can actually tag documents, is the key feature that we use.
Solutionef0b - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
Feb 7, 2019
One of the features that we have found most important is that the report builder is in Word, so it was very easy to get into it... We could also use some of our existing Word templates.
reviewer1025424 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
Mar 12, 2019
It is very user-friendly, and the wizard and equation options, plus the ability to create PODs for reusable data points, save so much time when templates need to be created quickly.
 

Windward Core Cons review quotes

CH
Sr. Systems Analyst at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Mar 31, 2021
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.
MH
Vice President of Product Management at Baker Hill Corporation
Aug 28, 2019
They're not a gigantic company, so they just don't have all the capital to do whatever they would want to do. That's the only reason I would hold back even that one point. I know that if I do ask for something, I'll get it. I just know that it will take some time.
WC
Owner at CNC Consultants
Feb 5, 2020
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.
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JA
SVP, Product Development at HIGH LINE CORPORATION
Jan 17, 2020
The only thing I can think of, that we'd like it to do, would be the ability to "burst out" reports, meaning one section of a report could be sent out as an email to a manager of a department, say, without having to run multiple reports to do it. As it sits now, we have to do multiple reports to do it.
NC
Product Management & Owner at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees
Jan 10, 2020
It would be nice to have a black-and-white, ideal setup for servers, to maximize capabilities. We went through a lot of scenarios to get something that is scalable. An ideal AWS-package server setup could have saved us a lot of time. But I understand this is very company specific.
reviewer1255479 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Support Specialist at a construction company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Dec 23, 2019
I have to deal with VERY long lists of properties contained in our XMLs and it would be nice if Windward offered a way to alphabetize this property list.
HM
Vice President at PSC Group, LLC
Jun 20, 2019
Their PDF needs improvement. We've run into some issues when we tried to generate a Word document. If we try to generate the same document in PDF, sometimes it doesn't look exactly the same.
Feb 21, 2019
The reason it took us so long to get the system up and running is that the APIs could be improved a bit. It could be a little bit more interoperable with software, without having to do a lot of the heavy lifting that we had do to get it in.
Solutionef0b - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
Feb 7, 2019
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.
reviewer1025424 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
Mar 12, 2019
I would like to see examples included within the Wiki information to show how each function option could be used.