ActiveReports Reporting/BI Suite for .NET includes ActiveReports Professional for .NET, Data Dynamics Reports and Data Dynamics Analysis.

These are Award-winning, complete .NET reporting and business intelligence tools that extend Microsoft Visual Studio.NET with designing environments, end user tools and a full .NET SDK that developers can use to embed advanced reporting and business intelligence functionality into their Visual Studio.NET applications.

ActiveReports for .NET is the Award-winning .NET reporting tool that features near unlimited customization, fast performance, super high quality, and multi-language capabilities — all battle-tested in tens of thousands of international applications worldwide. ActiveReports is a powerful .NET reporting tool for Windows Forms and ASP.NET applications. It supports data exports to all popular file formats, including PDF, Excel, RTF, TIFF, and more. ActiveReports features an easy-to-use Visual Studio .NET report designer and a powerful API that's been a long-time favorite of .NET developers. Because ActiveReports has been extensively sold worldwide for over a decade, its multi-language support has been proven to work right out of the box. ActiveReports also offers seamless run-time deployment, royalty free.

Data Dynamics Analysis is the first free-form; on-line analytical processing (OLAP) and visual-analysis component for Visual Studio.NET that overcomes the limits of traditional pivot tables and complex charting tools and allows .NET developers to embed an interactive business intelligence system within their .NET applications. Data Dynamics Analysis takes the complexity out of standard data analysis tools and gives developers a fully customizable, easy-to-use, drag-and-drop environment that allows users to explore data visually so they can quickly grasp what is happening.

Data Dynamics Reports has rearchitected and redesigned ActiveReports technology from the ground up, not only to make standard report design and customization easier than ever, but also to add business intelligence (BI) reporting features, thus providing a convenient BI adoption route for your reporting users. In addition to standard reporting features, Data Dynamics Reports includes new page- based report designers, new end-user report viewers, and the ability to aggregate dashboards, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), trend lines, and other new visualization elements. Data Dynamics Reports also features true Microsoft Excel transformation, Master templates and report styles-and, aside from Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services, it's the only .NET reporting tool that supports and extends Microsoft's Report Definition Language (RDL) format.

ActiveBI Suite for .NET includes Data Dynamics Reports and Data Dynamics Analysis.

Data Dynamics Analysis is the first free-form; on-line analytical processing (OLAP) and visual-analysis component for Visual Studio.NET that overcomes the limits of traditional pivot tables and complex charting tools and allows .NET developers to embed an interactive business intelligence system within their .NET applications. Data Dynamics Analysis takes the complexity out of standard data analysis tools and gives developers a fully customizable, easy-to-use, drag-and-drop environment that allows users to explore data visually so they can quickly grasp what is happening.

Data Dynamics Reports has rearchitected and redesigned ActiveReports technology from the ground up, not only to make standard report design and customization easier than ever, but also to add business intelligence (BI) reporting features, thus providing a convenient BI adoption route for your reporting users. In addition to standard reporting features, Data Dynamics Reports includes new page- based report designers, new end-user report viewers, and the ability to aggregate dashboards, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), trend lines, and other new visualization elements. Data Dynamics Reports also features true Microsoft Excel transformation, Master templates and report styles-and, aside from Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services, it's the only .NET reporting tool that supports and extends Microsoft's Report Definition Language (RDL) format.

ActiveReports has been the Award-winning .NET reporting tool of choice for the world's best applications for over a decade. Key features include unmatched customization, fast performance, super high quality, and multi-language features — all battle-tested in tens of thousands of applications worldwide.

Pioneering .NET Reporting Tool with Many Firsts

ActiveReports introduced a number of technologies to .NET developers all over the world for the very first time, including the first Visual Basic report builder, the first Visual Studio report designer, the first code-behind reporting model, the first end-user report designer and finally, the first reporting tool with royalty-free deployment.

Quality Tested by Tens of Thousands of Users

More than a decade ago, ActiveReports became the first reporting tool to work inside the Visual Basic IDE. Since then, the COM version — and now the .NET version — have not only been used by tens of thousands of developers, but also have become one of the only international reporting tools to be successfully localized, sold, and supported in Japan and Europe. Bottom line: ActiveReports is a proven reporting technology that just works right every time — even those features that are deemed "advanced" by our competition.

Rich Collection of Reporting Tools

When you buy ActiveReports, you get access to a complete set of .NET reporting tools that have been refined based on over a decade of customer feedback and the combined reporting experience of over 50,000 developers worldwide. These include upgrade tools, MS Access and other report converters, the Visual Studio report designer, the end-user report designer, charts, bar codes, export plug-ins and the .NET reporting SDK.

Almost Unlimited Report Customization

ActiveReports is the world's most flexible reporting tool for .NET. It offers an extensive code-behind, event-based API for report creation, plus the ability to hook into pretty much any reporting behavior at run time. Developers have long used ActiveReports to embed advanced reporting features into their applications — features that would otherwise be considered impossible to achieve. Read our case studies to discover how ActiveReports has turned reporting into a competitive advantage for our clients.

Intuitive Visual Studio Report Designer

ActiveReports was the world's first reporting tool that offered an easy-to-use report designer tightly integrated with Visual Studio — integration that began with Visual Basic over a decade ago and continues with Visual Studio 2008 today. The report designer also supports C# and third-party hosting controls and offers an extensive programming model for creating and customizing reports at run-time.

Broad Data Binding Support

ActiveReports allows you to bind reports to a variety of data sources — including run-time unbound data — and also allows you to change data source properties to provide ad-hoc reporting. It supports OLEDB; XML; .NET SQL clients; .NET collections such as data sets, data views, and data tables; and any entity that supports the iList interface.

Variety of Export Formats

ActiveReports allows you to export your reports into a variety of formats, including .PDF, HTML, .MHT, .RTF, Excel (.XLS), plain text (.TXT), comma-separated values (*.CSV), and .TIFF.

Easy-to-Use End-User Reporting Tools

ActiveReports allows you to host the report designer in your application and distribute it royalty free. It also allows end-users to edit reports and to save and load report layouts. In addition, it allows you to monitor and control the design environment and customize the report's look and feel to meet the needs of your end users.

World Class Reporting Performance and Quality

If you admired ActiveReports for its world-class quality and speed with over 50,000 users worldwide, you will love version 6 even more. The new version contains a number of improvements to enhance the performance and quality of the reporting engine, making it better, faster and smarter than ever before.

Rich Product and Public Knowledgebase

When you buy ActiveReports and related products, you are getting a market leader. You are getting the confidence of knowing that for the last decade, over 50,000 developers have adopted and enriched the product with their experience and skills and have contributed to a global online knowledge base in the form of innumerable forum discussions, articles, comparisons, blogs and emails.

Royalty-Free Deployment

The ActiveReports .NET reporting tool features flexible, royalty-free distribution. You can easily distribute it using .NET file copy techniques, or you can compile it into your application. And you can forget about calculating concurrent user fees or any of the countless ways that you are hit up for more money when you try to deploy other reporting tools.

Data Dynamics Analysis is the first free-form, on-line analytical processing (OLAP) and visual-analysis component for Visual Studio.NET that overcomes the limits of traditional pivot tables and complex charting tools and allows .NET developers to embed an interactive business intelligence system within their .NET applications. Data Dynamics Analysis takes the complexity out of standard data analysis tools and gives developers a fully customizable, easy-to-use, drag-and-drop environment that allows users to explore data visually so they can quickly grasp what is happening.

Key features include:

• Data-modeling support for both structured and unstructured data in .NET. For example, developers can model unstructured data into a multidimensional format using a single XML file, thereby structuring a flat set of data to support a full OLAP analysis experience.
• Easy-to-use, drag-and-drop-based interactive tools that enable end users to explore their data in new ways and discover trends that would otherwise go unnoticed.
• Dashboard-like multiple views of the same data to help end users gain a complete understanding of their data.
• Support for all data source types, including relational, XML, disconnected, multidimensional, and unbound data, giving your end users extreme flexibility in what they can analyze.
• Programmable visual analysis features such as filtered data and charts-which can be integrated in both WinForms and ASP.NET.
• Undo/redo features that give end users the flexibility to experiment with different ways of getting to the data they need-and backtrack if necessary-so they need not fear losing their context or missing a step.
• Virtually all data filters that end users may need to effectively analyze their data.
• A programmable toolbar that exposes data analysis functionality to end users, so they can use the same features that are available to the application developers.
• Support for a permission-based security model, so that only selected users can access the most strategic data.
• Ability for end users to easily switch between pivot tables and charts at run time, so they can view their data in whichever way they find easiest to understand.
• Cascading style sheet (CSS)-like styling features that make it easy to change the appearance of analyses without recompilation.
• Dockable, programmable windows that can be shown or hidden any time.
• Support for data aggregates, detailed views, calculated fields, drill-downs, and drill-through, so users can easily move from broad overviews to detailed analyses.
• Built-in printing support for all data analyses.
• Built-in support for saving and loading all aspects of a visual analysis at run-time.
• Royalty free deployment.

Data Dynamics Reports has rearchitected and redesigned ActiveReports technology from the ground up, not only to make standard report design and customization easier than ever, but also to add business intelligence (BI) features, thus providing a convenient BI adoption route for your reporting users. In addition to standard reporting features, Data Dynamics Reports includes new page-based report designers, new end-user report viewers, and the ability to aggregate dashboards, trend lines, and other new visualization elements. Data Dynamics Reports also supports master templates and report styles—and, aside from Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services, it's the only .NET reporting tool that supports and extends Microsoft's Report Definition Language (RDL) format.

Data Dynamics Reports offers flexible, royalty-free deployment to as many users as you want.

How is Data Dynamics Reports different from ActiveReports?

Microsoft Excel Transformation

Data Dynamics Reports includes a new Excel Transformation Device that makes it possible to analyze numbers using the familiar Excel environment. More than a simple export, the Excel Transformation Device allows users to change their reports into useful Excel spreadsheets and take full advantage of all Excel has to offer. For example, developers can bind data to Excel charts or pivot tables, enabling users to see the display change as they perform what-if analyses.

Microsoft Report Definition (RDL) Reporting Format

Data Dynamics Reports supports Microsoft's Report Definition Language (RDL) format, enabling developers who work in Microsoft environments to use a reporting format they're already familiar with. In addition, Data Dynamics Reports extends RDL beyond what SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) supports, adding support for reporting themes, reporting templates, and data visualization.

Dashboards and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Data Dynamics Reports includes built-in dashboard controls. For example, sparklines allow users to see trends while also viewing the primary data display. And bullet graphs give users an instantaneous view of how a KPI or other statistic is currently doing, broken down into two to three ranges and displaying an optional target—all in a space-saving display.

Advanced Data Visualization Components

Data Dynamics Reports includes data visualizers that make it easy to analyze business reports by highlighting key data elements, thus reducing the time and effort needed to make business decisions. For example, color scale maps a numeric value onto a range of colors, reducing the complexity of dealing with a large number of discrete data elements. Icon sets distill information into status flags and corresponding images, based on either absolute or calculated values. And range bars and data bars can be used to visually indicate numbers and number ranges, actual progress vs. planned progress, etc.

Powerful Report Designer Tools

Data Dynamics Reports features a new set of Visual Studio.NET-based report designer tools. For example, the Unified Data Explorer puts common expressions, parameters, data sources, data sets, and embedded images at the developer's fingertips. The Data Visualizer Editor for image and color properties makes it simple to construct the data visualizer needed for a report, complete with a preview of how the data visualizer may look at run-time. Smart Panels provide a standard way of accessing the properties available on data regions and report items. Built-in Smart Panel Editors make it easy to set up the documents to be designed. And the Visual Studio.NET Designer Control not only functions as a report designer at run time, but also enables developers to embed the designer control in their own WinForms and WPF applications, to provide the same design capabilities to end users.

Reporting Templates

Reporting templates provide report authors with a consistent base layout to work from, as well as common data sources, data sets, report parameters, embedded images, themes, and custom code. Developers use these templates to give end users a set of content and formats they can start with. Report authors working on a suite of reports use them to create a consistent look across the entire suite.

Reporting Themes

Theme support allows report designers to use a standard set of colors, fonts, and images throughout a set of documents—not only creating consistency across documents, but also enabling the look of reports to be updated by changing just one theme file.

Other improvements

Report drill-down and drill-through capabilities with matrix (crosstab) functionality, enabling end users to analyze data with a high degree of granularity. Better support for Microsoft Word, XHTML, and CSS content, enabling end users to export data to a wider variety of formats. Better image export to .BMP, .EMF, .GIF, .JPEG, .TIFF, and .PNG formats, giving users more graphics exporting options.

ActiveReports combines the power and ease of Microsoft Visual Basic with advanced ActiveX Designer component technology to provide the ultimate report designer for Visual Basic developers.

ActiveReports is fully integrated in the Visual Basic programming environment. It feels and works like VB with no more cryptic scripts or workarounds. ActiveReports provides a fully open architecture that lets you use VB code, ActiveX, and OLE Objects in your reports so you can handle the toughest of reports without limits.

Key Features

• Supports DAO, RDO, ADO, XML, XPath, and XSL expressions
• Supports unbound data from arrays, collections, etc.
• Provides easy-to-use Office-like designer environment
• Provides Access and Crystal reports import wizard
• Supports VBScript and JScript events and expressions
• Built-in syntax-highlighting script editor
• Allows ActiveX control hosting.
• Use 3rd party controls or your own custom controls in your reports
• Allows report bookmarks and Internet hyperlinks
• Provides controls Style property editor based on standard CSS syntax
• Professional version provides royalty-free end-user designer control
• Run-time access to objects, data sources and binding, ability to add controls/sections dynamically at run time to modify the report behavior
• Allows reports to be compiled for maximum security and speed
• Allows report layouts to be distributed as XML-based report layouts
• Provides TIFF export in addition to Text, RTF, Excel, PDF, and HTML export filters

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