Bold Reports Reviews & Product Details

Bold Reports is easy to use and feels straightforward for both admins and end users. It’s also a cost-effective option compared to other reporting tools, which makes it easier to justify and scale across the organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The product still feels incomplete. There are important features that are either missing or still in development or testing. The support experience also isn’t as strong as it should be, which slows things down when we need help. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I find Bold Reports to be very easy to use, which is a significant advantage for me and my team. Its user-friendly interface means I can confidently give it to regular users to modify reports, something we wouldn't consider doing with Access or SSRS. The ease of use is not just about operating the system; Bold Reports is also very easy to set up, making the initial adoption process smooth and stress-free. Additionally, it effectively serves as our primary reporting tool for recurring static reports. The integration with other tools such as SQL Server, our claims software, and Microsoft Fabric works well, enhancing the overall functionality and efficiency. I'm particularly impressed with the way Bold Reports eliminates the need for complex infrastructure, unlike Access, thereby reducing cost and operational complexity. My positive experience is reflected in my likelihood to recommend Bold Reports to a friend or colleague, which I rate at 10 out of 10. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing to dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Bold Reports offers an intuitive interface for designing and delivering interactive, paginated reports. What I like best is its seamless integration with various data sources, including SQL Server, REST APIs, and cloud storage. The drag-and-drop report designer, embedded report viewer, and export options (PDF, Excel, Word) make it easy to build and share insights with end users. It’s especially useful for embedding reports into our applications with minimal coding Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While Bold Reports is feature-rich and highly functional, the initial setup and configuration—especially for self-hosted deployments—can be a bit complex and time-consuming. Additionally, documentation around advanced customization and embedding scenarios could be more detailed. Performance may also need tuning when handling large datasets or complex visualizations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like Bold Reports for its intuitive drag-and-drop designer that simplifies report creation. Its wide data source support and seamless integration make it highly flexible for various applications. The interactive viewer and export options add great value for end-users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There’s nothing to dislike about Bold Reports as it offers a smooth and user-friendly experience. The features are well-documented and perform consistently across different environments. Its reliability and flexibility make it a dependable reporting solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We use Azure to host several different Bold Reports environments for dev, test, and production purposes.

The Bold Reports UI is very user friendly, and navigation between pages is reasonably responsive.

For us, we use Visual Studio to build all datasets and reports.

Those files are then seamlessly imported to the bold Reports environment.

My title with our company is a SSRS Developer, so I work in Visual Studio and Bold Reports every day.

The Bold Reports support team is great. And even with time difference, they've been very helpful in resolving any and all issues we may have reported.

They've also been great at considering/implementing new feature requests that we may have requested along the way.

We've had the embedded application integrated into our custom software ever since SyncFusion. With each update received it's only gotten better. Then, when the Bold Reports embedded application was incorporated, the overall look, performance, and functionality just skyrocketed.

Our client-base has reflected very positively on its ease of use and overall look/performance.

The scheduler is another heavily used feature that we've also integrated into our custom software.

There were some bumps in the road in getting it to work efficiently, but the support team with really great is getting any issues we were facing resolved.

Now our clients are able to schedule their own report in our software and has been running very well thus far.

Another great quality is that new features and performance improvements are being released on a regular basis.

This is always great for the end user.

So, our overall experience with Bold Reports has been great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There isn't very much to dislike about the Bold Reports experience.

But, probably the biggest area needing improvement deals with the system logs.

There have been a few instances where a more detailed error message would've been very helpful, but the logs only produced a generic type of error message.

This has been requested in the past so I believe that is something they're working on to improve.

But, for how we use the system, there's really not much else that can be really labeled as a dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Bold reports provided us with a direct off-ramp from SSRS and added new capabilities we had wanted to add to our application for a long time. Some of the major advantages of Bold Reports include:

- Direct replacement for our comprehensive library of existing SSRS reports

- Full embedding for report execution within our WPF and Blazor applications

- Comprehensive, embedded self-authoring functionality along with a desktop application to allow for report authoring by developers; also will support Visual Studio authoring.

- The pricing and license model is fair for ISVs

- Excellent support and onboarding - very responsive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The only downside discovered thus far is that to extend into using Bold BI, the sister application suite for analytics and dashboards, a lightweight embedded model similar to Bold Reports, does not exist. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that Bold Reports is simple to use and makes it easy to build and share reports without much setup. The interface is clear, and most features work as expected. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some features feel limited, and certain tasks require extra steps that could be more streamlined. Performance can be a bit slow at times when loading larger reports. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I appreciate Bold Reports for being a lightweight and flexible free software that is cost-effective. I find the cross-platform transparency and ease of deployment particularly useful. The ability to copy markup in the code and deploy it through Git enhances my workflow significantly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I found the setup process for Bold Reports to be convoluted and not straightforward, which made it challenging to get up and running. Navigating the website and finding necessary setup components involved digging through complex menus, which was frustrating. Additionally, I believe that transforming the user interface could improve the overall experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Bold Reports has been a great addition to our Angular application. The report-building tools are robust and give our clients the flexibility to build their own reports using our OData API. We have a multi-site/multi-tenant setup, and it's easy to distribute a default set of reports and templates to each client's site. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We have been unable to implement the report scheduling feature effectively. It would be nice to see additional tools in Bold Reports that allow us to manage user authentication for external APIs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to use tool with variety of options. Designer, viewer and writer. I mostly use desktop designer and writer for .net core. Connecting databases is very simple. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The designer doesn't support changes on preview and can't save the design if there is a generated report with that design via the writer. That slows the development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.