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Awards & PressRecent Reviews and Press of SoftArtisans Products:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SoftArtisans’ Reporting Tool Named “Best of Tech•Ed
2007” Winner By Windows IT Pro, SQL Server Magazine and Office & Sharepoint
Pro.com BOSTON, MA June 11, 2007 - SoftArtisans today announced that its OfficeWriter Reporting Tool was named as a winner of the “Best of Tech•Ed Awards 2007” in the Business Intelligence category by Penton Media’s Windows IT Pro®, SQL Server Magazine® and Office & Sharepoint Pro.com. The judges reviewed over 260 IT products and services submitted for the contest and chose 45 finalists to be interviewed at Tech•Ed in Orlando, Fla. The interviews were conducted last week. Winners were announced on June 6 at an evening reception at the Peabody Hotel Orlando. "This is the sixth year of this awards program and every year we see a
substantial increase in the number and level of entries, “said Karen Forster,
group editorial and strategic director. “While we had many worthy products,
the winners clearly demonstrated their products’ strategic importance
to the market, its competitive advantages and the value they provide to customers." About SoftArtisans ######## Copyright 2007. SoftArtisans Inc. All rights reserved. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SoftArtisans’ OfficeWriter Reporting Tool Named "Tech-Ed
Atendee's Pick" Winner By Windows IT Pro, SQL Server Magazine and Office
& Sharepoint Pro.com BOSTON, MA June 11, 2007 - SoftArtisans today announced that its OfficeWriter Reporting Tool was named as a 2007 winner of the “Tech•Ed Attendee’s Pick Awards” in Business Intelligence category by Penton Media’s Windows IT Pro®, SQL Server Magazine® and Office & Sharepoint Pro.com The Tech•Ed attendees reviewed IT products and services submitted for the contest and chose the winners at Tech•Ed in Orlando, Fla. Winners were announced on June 7 at the Windows IT Pro booth on the Tech•Ed show floor. “Tech•Ed attendees are tough, in-the-trenches critics,” said
Kim Paulsen, group publisher. “They demand solid value and performance
from the products they use and put those products to the test, day after day.
Attendee’s Pick Award winners can feel proud that their products and services
have earned the respect and recognition of this demanding audience.” About SoftArtisans ######## Copyright 2007. SoftArtisans Inc. All rights reserved.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SoftArtisans’ Reporting Tool is Finalist in Best of
TechEd Award BOSTON, MA June 11, 2006 - OfficeWriter is a finalist in the Business Intelligence category for the Best of TechEd 2006 Awards, presented by Penton’s Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine. The winners will be determined after final judging at TechEd and announced the evening of June 14. "The field included more than 250 entries. After technically evaluating all of the entries, we chose finalists based on the product's strategic importance to the market, its competitive advantages and the value to the customer," said Michael Otey, Technical Director for Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine. Since 2004, hundreds of customers have used OfficeWriter with SQL Server Reporting Services to design and deliver their reports without ever leaving Microsoft Office. OfficeWriter’s use of familiar formats, like Excel and Word, eliminates the need to train business users on other report design tools. "OfficeWriter is a great addition to SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services,” said Microsoft Reporting Services Group Program Manager Brian Welcker. “With OfficeWriter, customers can create and deliver full-featured Microsoft Excel spreadsheets and Microsoft Word documents while leveraging SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services security, scheduling, caching, and distribution features. Designing reports in Excel and Word is a great benefit to our mutual customers." About SoftArtisans ######## Copyright 2006. SoftArtisans Inc. All rights reserved. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Version 3.5 of OfficeWriter Supports SQL Server 2005
and .NET Framework V2.0 Watertown, MA November 15, 2005 - SoftArtisans has announced that its release of version 3.5 of OfficeWriter fully supports both Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005. OfficeWriter is a high-powered reporting tool that delivers native Microsoft Office Excel and Microsoft Office Word over the Web without the need for Microsoft Office on the server. Hundreds of customers are already using OfficeWriter with SQL Server Reporting Services to design and deliver their reports without ever leaving Microsoft Office. The familiarity of Excel and Word eliminates the need to train business users on other report design tools. As a renderer within Reporting Services, OfficeWriter generates Report Definition Language (RDL) files that preserve every Excel feature, such as pivot tables, VBA, macros, advanced formulas and live charts, while also adding Word to the export options within Reporting Services. Currently, Reporting Services supports only Microsoft Office Web Components, PDF, XML/MHTML and limited Excel output. “SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services will work with OfficeWriter to utilize the world’s most recognizable content formats – Microsoft Office Excel and Word – to provide customers with report management and security features in an easy-to-use format,” said Don Petersen, Sr. Product Manager, Microsoft SQL Server. “Our applications work together so customers can design and deliver the Excel and Word reports they need for business intelligence.” New OfficeWriter for Reporting Services Features:
This new version of OfficeWriter also adds significant Excel and Word functionality, including document merging, watermarks, R1C1 formula support and conditional formatting, just to name a few of the new features. About SoftArtisans ######## Copyright 2005. SoftArtisans Inc. All rights reserved. SoftArtisans, OfficeWriter and the SoftArtisans logo are trademarks of Software Artisans, Inc. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Most Powerful Version of SoftArtisans OfficeWriter
Released at Microsoft TechEd 2005 Watertown, MA June 6, 2005 – In conjunction with Microsoft Tech•Ed 2005, SoftArtisans has released version 3 of OfficeWriter, featuring Microsoft .NET application objects for both Microsoft Office Excel 2003 and Microsoft Office Word 2003 and increased support for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services. With the enterprise edition of OfficeWriter, users can create and modify any Excel and Word feature at runtime or use the easy template-approach to design reports. The new version also brings new Application Objects for both Excel and Word in the Java™ Edition of OfficeWriter and more functionality to those who are now using OfficeWriter with SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services. “SQL Server 2005 will work with OfficeWriter, so customers can utilize content formats they already know – Microsoft Office Excel and Word – to author Reporting Service reports,” said Lucho Torres, Group Product Manager for SQL Server at Microsoft Corp. “Together, these products help customers gather and deliver data they need to analyze their organization’s information.” With the release today of version 3 of OfficeWriter, users can avoid proprietary design tools that are unfamiliar to most business users who regularly create reports. Equally as important, companies can continue to use complex legacy reports, which feature Excel and Word, as they shift to Reporting Services. When used within Reporting Services, OfficeWriter generates RDL files that preserve Excel 2003 features and adds Word 2003 to the export options within Reporting Services. "Version 3 of OfficeWriter is a significant release for us as we continue to enhance Reporting Services’ functionality within Microsoft Office 2003, but also greatly improve the Excel and Word reporting capabilities of Excel 2003 and Word 2003 within our stand-alone product,” said SoftArtisans CEO David Wihl. About SoftArtisans ######## Copyright 2005. SoftArtisans Inc. All rights reserved. SoftArtisans, OfficeWriter and the SoftArtisans logo are trademarks of Software Artisans, Inc. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SoftArtisans Adds Full Excel and Word Support to Microsoft
SQL Server Reporting Services Brookline, MA October 11, 2004 – With the release today of a Reporting Services Edition of OfficeWriter, SoftArtisans boosts the usability of the Microsoft reporting tool by providing the ability to design and deliver reports directly within Microsoft Office. Without SoftArtisans OfficeWriter, Reporting Services customers must design their reports in Visual Studio .NET. “OfficeWriter complements SQL Server Reporting Services by providing full-function Excel and Word output,” said Microsoft SQL Server Senior Product Manager Don Petersen. “The integration with Microsoft and SoftArtisans allows Reporting Services to take advantage of the ubiquity of Office as a report writer for end users.” SoftArtisans OfficeWriter enables the design, publishing and delivery of reports directly from Microsoft Excel and Word using SQL Server Reporting Services, ASP.NET or Java™. With OfficeWriter, end users can avoid design tools like VS.NET that are unfamiliar to most business users. Equally as important, companies can continue to use complex legacy reports, which feature Excel and Word, as they shift to Reporting Services. This special edition of OfficeWriter generates Reporting Services reports (RDL files), but unlike Reporting Services’ Excel output, all Excel features, such as pivot tables, VBA, macros, advanced formulas and live charts, are preserved by OfficeWriter. Reporting Services currently supports only Microsoft Office Web Components, PDF, XML/MHTML and very limited Excel output. Without OfficeWriter, Reporting Services can not deliver reports in Microsoft Word format. OfficeWriter-rendered documents preserve all of the Word features contained in the user’s existing Word template. "This is a huge leap in functionality for Reporting Services,” said SoftArtisans CEO David Wihl. “Not only does OfficeWriter enhance Reporting Services' support for MS Office - it more importantly empowers end users to design and manage reports in familiar MS Office. No new training, no new client-side requirements and full preservation of all MS Office features - a winning combination." Through a toolbar integrated within Excel and Word, it’s easy to access a data source and insert data/text through merge fields and repeat blocks. After designing the report, the toolbar is used to save, preview, edit and publish reports to the Reporting Services server for distribution. Thanks to this freely-distributed client-side design tool, there is no need to switch from Microsoft Office to the browser to generate reports. The Reporting Services Edition of OfficeWriter is packaged with the Enterprise Edition of OfficeWriter v2.5 or sold separately. There are no per-user costs with OfficeWriter. It is licensed per server CPU. About SoftArtisans ######## Copyright 2004. SoftArtisans Inc. All rights reserved. SoftArtisans, SoftArtisans logo, OfficeWriter, WordWriter, ExcelWriter and FileUp are trademarks of Software Artisans, Inc. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SoftArtisans OfficeWriter v2.5 Improves Design Capabilities
in Microsoft Reporting Services BROOKLINE, MA October 11, 2004 - SoftArtisans has released OfficeWriter v2.5 which includes a SQL Server Reporting Services Edition, image insertion in Microsoft Word and complete pivot table support in Excel. OfficeWriter enables the design, publishing and delivery of reports directly from Microsoft Excel and Word using Java™, ASP.NET, Classic ASP or Reporting Services. End users design reports directly in Excel or Word, avoiding design tools that are unfamiliar to most business users. "With OfficeWriter 2.5 we’ve added a huge leap in functionality for Reporting Services with full support for Excel and Word,” said SoftArtisans CEO David Wihl. “But our current and new customers will also see new features and performance enhancements in both theWindows and Java™ versions of OfficeWriter that are not related to Reporting Services.” Utilized by 8 of the Fortune 10, the OfficeWriter suite of products includes ExcelWriter and WordWriter. A key new feature in ExcelWriter centers around one of the more powerful tools within Excel – pivot tables. With ExcelWriter, power Excel users can now modify or create-from-scratch pivot tables in their server side code. Major new features in WordWriter v2.5 include the ability to insert images from a database and improved field marker support. WordWriter customers will also see enhanced performance in the newest version. WordWriter is now three times faster than its previous version. The release of version 2.5 coincides with the launch of a Reporting Services Edition of OfficeWriter. Unlike Reporting Services’ Excel output, all Excel features, such as pivot tables, VBA, macros, advanced formulas and charts, are preserved by OfficeWriter. Without OfficeWriter, Reporting Services can not deliver reports in Microsoft Word format. About SoftArtisans ######## Copyright 2004. SoftArtisans Inc. All rights reserved. SoftArtisans and the SoftArtisans logo are registered trademarks of SoftArtisans, Inc. OfficeWriter, WordWriter, ExcelWriter and FileUp are trademarks of SoftArtisans, Inc. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New Features, Platform Support in OfficeWriter V2 BROOKLINE, MA March 29, 2004 - SoftArtisans has released OfficeWriter V2, featuring a native .NET version of their Excel reporting solution and improved functionality in their Word generation tool. By uniting SoftArtisans’ popular ExcelWriter with WordWriter, OfficeWriter delivers real Excel spreadsheets and Word documents over the Web without the need for Microsoft Office. OfficeWriter is a cross-platform product for J2EE™, ASP and ASP.NET. Powerful as a stand-alone Web-based solution – it generates over 100,000 reports per hour – OfficeWriter is also a perfect complement to your current business intelligence tool, delivering reports in the familiar formats your users want. In the third quarter of 2004, OfficeWriter will be integrated with SQL Server Reporting Services giving users even more flexibility in designing and generating Web reports. “This is an exciting version release of OfficeWriter,” said SoftArtisans CEO David Wihl. “With the ever-increasing adoption of the .NET Framework, we are pleased to offer a .NET version of ExcelWriter to match the existing .NET edition of an improved WordWriter. Offering both real Word and Excel formats in a cross-platform reporting solution separates us from all other business intelligence products.” New in OfficeWriter Version 2:
About SoftArtisans ######## Copyright 2004. SoftArtisans Inc. All rights reserved. SoftArtisans and the SoftArtisans logo are registered trademarks of SoftArtisans, Inc. OfficeWriter, WordWriter, ExcelWriter and FileUp are trademarks of SoftArtisans, Inc. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SoftArtisans OfficeWriter Will Provide BROOKLINE, MA February 12, 2004 - SoftArtisans has announced that they will provide native Excel and Word reporting for Microsoft’s recently released SQL Server Reporting Services through a full integration of their popular OfficeWriter product. The integration, which will be completed in third quarter 2004, will please countless Microsoft customers who need to generate real, native binary Excel and Word files that preserve all the richness of both formats. Reporting Services currently supports only Microsoft Office Web Components, PDF and XML/MHTML output. Reporting Services does not support Word whatsoever. “Reporting Services Version 1 has a great architecture. With OfficeWriter, customers will be able preserve their existing Excel and Word documents, use Office as a designer instead of Visual Studio. NET and still take advantage of all of the rich report management of Reporting Services,” said SoftArtisans President David Wihl. “It’s a win-win-win for SoftArtisans, Microsoft and most importantly, our mutual customers. No other reporting solution will have this capability.” An enterprise reporting product available for ASP, ASP.NET and J2EE™, OfficeWriter is currently used by 8 of the Fortune 10 and capable of delivering over 100,000 editable Excel and Word reports per hour over the Web. The newest version of OfficeWriter is expected to be released in March. In addition to real Word and Excel 97-2003 report generation, OfficeWriter’s integration will provide Microsoft customers with an easy-to-use report design tool as well as the ability to update databases with live data. Both features are not included in the initial release of Reporting Services. The first version of Reporting Services requires either Visual Studio .NET or a third party tool to design reports. OfficeWriter’s integration with Reporting Services will allow organizations to avoid additional design tools and preserve their large investments in Excel and Word. “Some customers have spent years building sophisticated models and VBA and want to preserve that investment rather than starting with a new design tool,” said Wihl. “Power users in Excel and Word don't want to spend time training with another tool when they know and can already use Excel and Word.” SoftArtisans’ HotCell Technology provides a live connect back to the source data directly from Excel and Word, allowing users to access a centralized location for up-to-the minute business information. Currently within the Reporting Services infrastructure there is no way for a user to reconnect and send updates back to the database. About SoftArtisans |
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