WindWard Designer

What is WindWard Designer?

Visually stunning document design with data.

Why Windward Designer?

Fast and scalable 'smart document' functionality

Easily determine what to include or exclude based on business logic and user-defined variables, with capabilities to connect to all major data sources.

Easily query complex data

By creating business logic sequences and with simplified access to query wizards, business users can incorporate any available metrics into the connected data sources.

Attractive template design

Thanks to easily customizable layouts, drag-and-drop formatting, and styling within Microsoft Office, designers and business users can create templates for a variety of reports and documents.

Create custom documents with the right look. Every time.

It's certainly disappointing to spend countless hours creating a model only to have the end results fall short of expectations. WindWard Designer  offers free-form design control with our Designer. So stop accepting mediocre results and create your models exactly the way you imagine them. The only limit is your imagination!

The best part? You create templates in the tools you already know and love, such as Microsoft Word or Excel, and export them in more universal formats, such as HTML or PDF.

Looking for more ways to turn your data into easy-to-digest and actionable insights? Check out our white paper on Designing Beautiful Reports.

Connect your data with the click of a button. It's so easy.

Whether you use SQL, JSON, XML, or another data source, we make it easy to pair your data with the design with our easy-to-use Connection Editor. With no hidden implementation costs, it's very easy to set up and start using WindWard Designer right away. When you're ready to publish, select any of these popular output formats to get perfect results.

A set of features that leads the industry and no one can touch.

Compared to workarounds, WindWard Designer provides superior results and an unparalleled user experience. Don't take our word for it: our market-leading product features bring our customers back year after year, with a 95% retention rate.

User-friendly template design interface

Rest easy knowing that you don't have to be a developer to use WindWard Designer  Designer. You won't need training, because the templates are designed and edited on an already familiar platform: Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint).

Enjoy complete control when designing your t. Incorporate the exact design elements you want:

custom pages, graphics, font colors, rotation, spacing, and effects.

If you can imagine it in Office, you can design it in WindWard Designer.

Intelligent document flexibility

The powerful inline data tags (for each, if, switch, exit, chart, and more) insert conditional logic to customize the output to meet your specific document needs.

Unlimited user-defined variables and interactivity options (link, sort, filter, pivot, and more) offer multiple levels of complexity to meet your business needs.

Better organize and manage data with data source/field viewer and data label viewer.

Seamless data integration

Connect to all data sources in the Designer environment, mix data from different sources quickly and conveniently, and easily integrate WindWard Designer into your portfolio of business solutions.

Automate and scale your document generation process with user-defined elements and reusable data connections (PODs).

Easily create data queries in our data wizards using simple drag-and-drop actions.

Scalable document

Import templates as subtemplates and enjoy unlimited template reuse. Tags on imported templates are processed.

Trust the quality of your documents with our alerts and error validation and verification tools.

Document versioning and editing are easy to manage with Microsoft Office ribbon changes, comments, password protection, and locking of document elements.

Customize your documents with third-party app add-ins like digital signatures, QR codes, maps, and more.

System Requirements:

CPU: 1.8 GHz dual core processor

RAM: 2 GB

HDD/SSD: 50 GB of free space on main drive

Operating system: Microsoft Windows 8 32-bit, Microsoft Windows 7 32-bit, and Microsoft Windows Vista 32-bit

Resolution: 1024×768