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Windward Reports AutoTag 5.0 released
Boulder, CO, September 25, 2007 — Windward Reports, a leader in enterprise report generation, today announced a major upgrade in its report design tool with its release of AutoTag 5.0. Long considered the industry standard in easy-to-use reporting tools, AutoTag has always included helpful wizards and intuitive design functionality. With more than 40 feature improvements included as part of AutoTag 5.0, this release marks the single largest improvement in Windward Reports functionality since its inception. The multitude of improvements Windward has packed into this update offer AutoTag users a new level of design freedom in addition to its famous ease of use. This upgrade is available at no charge to any Windward AutoTag customer whose support was current as of July 1, 2007.
Among the improvements to AutoTag 5.0, customers requested three areas specifically, Charting & Graphing, Windward’s new Tag Editor and the “Nickname” Feature. The new Chart Editor offers vastly improved charting capabilities, making chart building easier, offering extensive new layout and color options, enhanced chart support, as well as the ability to edit chart layouts item by item. The Chart Tag Editor allows the user to choose and edit the chart or graph in extra tabs right on the report template.
AutoTag 5.0 has completely streamlined the data tag process, as well. Data Tags are the “place holders” inserted into a report template that are used as indicators of where the actual data flows in from a database when the report is run. With its revamped Tag Editor, Windward introduces tabbed tag editing, intuitive layout and smart tabs that know when to display or hide. Tags are logically grouped, browsable and can be turned off /on as a toggle. The Drag & Drop features facilitate fast and easy data tag construction, where things can be dragged out of a data pane, automatically creating the Xpath or SQL Statement. Auto Tag’s new Nickname Feature lets you decide the tag name, choosing what is shown when and including comments as well.
“In AutoTag 5.0 we tried to pack every improvement that our customers had asked for in our product—or our competitors’ for that matter,” CEO and Founder David Thielen, ”Now, with AutoTag 5.0 there is one product that offers pretty much anything that a report designer could want in the way of both design capabilities and data insertion. And it’s still completely easy to use; we’re very proud of that.” Windward’s customers have long maintained that they save up to 90% of the time it takes with other report design tools, largely due to AutoTag’s ease of use.
About Windward Reports
Launched in 2002, Windward Reports is the only full-featured, robust .NET/J2EE reporting engine to use Microsoft Word as a layout tool, putting report-design and generation power in the hands of the end user, technical or non-technical. Any user can create reports with almost no learning curve. Windward Reports works by merging any XML, SQL or custom data source—or any combination thereof—with a Microsoft Word report template. It feeds data into the template to create a what-you-see-is-what-you-get report that can be generated in PDF, RTF, DOCX, HTML, WordML, .XLS, SpreadsheetML, .TXT, or multipart-MIME-email format. Windward Reports developer and production systems are available for purchase or free trial at www.windwardreports.com.
Windward Reports’ user group spans 65 countries and all continents except Antarctica. Applications include financial statements, inventory reports, product-usage reports, purchase orders, invoices, training certificates, timesheets, and licenses, as well as applications requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley, Patriot Act, HIPAA, Health Level Seven, Gramm-Leach-Blailey, Basel II, and other U.S. and international acts affecting financial services, real estate, government, and insurance industries. Windward has headquarters in Boulder, Colorado.
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