Document generation (docgen) is an automated way of generating and distributing documents. Instead of creating a document manually, the user creates a template, and specific information populates the template when the document is generated.
Document generation is the most thorough and efficient means of automating documents, and without it, businesses would waste critical resources.
ComponentOne
Reports for .NET provides the capability to quickly and easily create Microsoft Access-style database reports for your Visual Studio.NET applications. Provides as a programming API.
Crystal Reports
A full-featured reporting solution. Requires using its report design tool which has a steep learning curve.
Reporting library for both Forms and ASP.NET. Uses a custom GUI designer to design report templates.
Intelliview
An end- to-end reporting and analytics solution for enterprises. It includes traditional reporting, query, analytics and business intelligence capabilities. Developers can use IntelliVIEW to design pre-formatted reports from any relational database.
Cubicle War
LogiXML
A web-based BI, Reporting, & Analysis program. More of a BI product as opposed to a reporting product.
SQL Server Reporting Services is a comprehensive, server-based solution that enables the creation, management, and delivery of both traditional, paper-oriented reports and interactive, Web-based reports. Click here for a review.
Windward Reports is the only .NET docgen engine that uses Microsoft Word, Excel, & PowerPoint as its layout tool – so
creating reports is fast & easy, for both technical
and non-technical users.
This white paper describes
a novel approach to report
writing which allows business
users to layout elegant
reports using Microsoft
Word® as the layout tool.
