The ability to apply data directly on a template. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The limitations for retention of formatting within the import function. Also the lack of support for footers in templates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Windward was able to solve our issues regarding complex templated document creation. AutoTag enabled us to quickly translate sample documents from our clients into templates that allowed to generate massive amounts of documents, both at scheduled times and on demand.

AutoTag's integration with the familiar Office interface is a huge win, and we were able to even turn our customers onto the solution and have them being to develop their own templates.

In the end, we were even able to function as a reseller, and get the clients to generate their own templates that we could quickly expose via our software for their needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There were some hoops initially getting it to play nicely with ASP.NET, and complex templates can be difficult to visually navigate and understand Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like how flexible it is at creating what I want. Quick response from Support and the software continues to improve at a steady pace. Nearly all formatting is based off of regular old Word and Excel. Everyone knows at least a little about the Microsoft Office software. It's an easy entry into the world of AutoTag.

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There were certainly some pains in the beginning like with any new tool or software. So far, I have been able to find a way with nearly all "what if" situations our clients bring to me. The only thing I would say could use some tweaking is the validating tool. It's really good at finding and jumping to typical problems to quickly fix the issue. When you move to the much more complex scenarios, the tool still provides useful information but doesn't necessary jump to exactly where you need it to go. It gets you close but not quite there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have just started using Windward, but coming from many years of experience with other report tools, I am already smitten with it. The ease of design for at least the fairly basic templates I'm starting to build is, for the most part, remarkable. The output in legitimate DOCX format that can be easily manipulated by end users is head and shoulders above any of the other tools we currently use to create Word documents, which end up as complex tables from edge to edge and top to bottom with very little meaningful ability to be tweaked, let alone heavily edited, rearranged and reused in other documents.

I've also received very prompt, professional and competent responses from Windward's support team. From webinars to email support to phone calls, they've been extremely accommodating and helpful -- not to mention just plain friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's hard to complain about a tool I've only recently started using, and I'll update this review when I've got more experience with it, but two areas I find lacking are documentation (which I've been assured has just started a complete overhaul) and functionality for some of the tags. For example, I've been struggling to use the IF tag to do something that's dead simple in other tools: hide text and/or other elements when a data field is empty/null. Support is working on it and I'm sure I'll get an answer, but this should be more straightforward than it is.

A more long-term concern for me, knowing what I've needed to do with other tools to meet customer needs, is the lack of really powerful scripting and customization. I don't think this is something that they can or should address because from my perspective it's out of scope for AutoTag's purpose, but with one of the other tools we use, I have the ability to write complex JavaScript to create functions, manipulate data, etc. I rarely need to resort to this, but on the occasions where it's been critical to a project requirement I've been saved by it. Time will tell how similar requirements will impact our use of AutoTag; at this point it is supplementing rather than replacing other tools, but I can easily see it being our default go-to designer when customer requirements are typical. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have just started to use this tool as i am sure many of the other users have! The simplicity of this tool crossed with its powerful tool set make for a brilliant product, One that i find to be very hard to beat! We as a company use a lot of reports and going from an in house product to this is amazing in difference. Reports are generated a lot quicker and smoother. I would recommend this solution to anyone wanting a quick, reliable and simplistic reporting tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Our company have not have many problems with this product, however any problems we have had have been swiftly sorted and have not required constant pestering! When compared to our old in house tool there are literally no complaints, i cannot think of any points that i dislike with this product. I am due for my first webinar on 17th Feb and hopefully this field will remain with no dislikes :)! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the user friendly GUI (graphical user interface) that they have. If there is something that I don't understand they have a very helpful online repository where I can look it up. They email support is excellent. The response time is usually within an hour or two. I have talked to a couple different people and all of them have been very helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There really isn't much that I can think of when it comes to disliking it. The only thing that comes to wind is not being able to edit the excel document while you have the tag editor open. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AutoTag is build within the Office suite and is therefore able to leverage all the familiar features. This is very useful when you need to make reports useful and appealing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is hard to pick out the tags if they are mixed in with a block of text. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

How easy it is to use. There isn't a specific requirement for expensive training courses as all the help you need is provided by the team at Windward. Once you become well versed in how to use Autotag, document production and generation becomes so so easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The charts were problematic at first, but again, using the resources available on the Windward website, I soon came to understand how they work. Some of the charts that became obsolete in new releases of Autotag was something I felt was a shame but not to the point it was detrimental to my user experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy data source connection, easy report authoring, super customer service. Authoring options are basically whatever Microsoft Word's formatting offers you, which is a ton. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There hasn't been much to complain about thus far, no issues that haven't been resolved promptly by tech support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The software's user interface is intuitive and easy to use - I very rarely click on something and get a window/option that I wasn't expecting. The database resources you have to connect and get essentially real-time data is also incredible. Most importantly, the support page on their website is one of the most extensive support catalogs of any software I've ever seen. There's only been one time that I can think of where my question wasn't resolved from their support page, and in that case, their e-mail response was incredibly fast and immediately helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes the executing of queries when you're trying to evaluate them runs slow, but I think that has more to do with my query writing than it does with their software. Not being able to have two query editors open at the same time (or anything else in the excel file) was frustrating to get used to at first, but isn't a deal-breaker by any means. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.