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Why Choose
... or 15 reasons to choose the new level of development experience
Telerik Reporting offers a new level of development experience, referred to as “Easibility”. It brings on board effortless report creation, styling and data presentation. It is sure to look good, save valuable resources and developer time for more important tasks.
"Easibility" in Development
 Full Visual Studio Integration - All reports created with the Telerik Reporting tool can be fully customized in familiar VS2008/VS2005 design time, meaning that you do not need to learn new UI. - Easiness and Simplicity - Telerik Reporting comes on board with its own Report Wizard with predefined layouts and styles helping you to create your report in a flash. In addition, the most time-consuming tasks come with comprehensive wizards, builders, previews and tools. Complicated reports can be created in just a few minutes without writing a single line of code, saving time for more important tasks.
- Rich Conditional Formatting - Telerik Reporting offers simple, but rich conditional formatting to visually annotate your data for both analytical and presentation purposes, much like you would in Microsoft Excel®. No coding is required.
- Report Parameters - Report parameters can be used to specify the data to be used in a report, connect related reports and sub-reports, modify presentation, filter data, control sorting and grouping, and even change textbox properties. There is no need to write code, nor event handlers to use this feature. Watch video or see online demo.
- Extensive Data Source Support - Telerik Reporting depends on standard .NET objects. For this reason you can hook Telerik Reporting to any data source of your choice: any ADO.NET provider (SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, OLE DB, etc), Business Objects, MS Access, XML, Web Services, and even to a file. See online demo.
"Easibility" in Design
- WYSIWYG Design Surface - Telerik Reporting is the first reporting tool in the industry to introduce an innovative WYSIWYG design surface in Visual Studio .NET. The surface simulates graph paper and represents the actual layout of the report elements as they would appear on a printed sheet of paper. To make the process of accurate positioning, aligning, and sizing of report elements Telerik Reporting implements some techniques used in drawing software.
- Fine-grained CSS-like Styling - Telerik Reporting introduces an advanced and much enriched styling mechanism through its built-in styling model, which closely follows CSS specifications. This CSS-like mechanism offers full control over the item’s background, images, colors, borders, styles, paddings, etc. See online demo.
- Reuse of Corporate Design and Branding - There is no need to design new reports each time they are created. Just save your corporate theme/design to the predefined themes and reuse it each time the report is created.
- Rich Set of Measurement Units - A typical challenge in report design is the precise layout and sizing of elements for the purposes of proper printing and viewing in different formats. Telerik Reporting supports a variety of measurement units (mm, cm, in, pica, pt, etc), which can be used for any element, including borders, padding, and even font sizes.
- Dynamic Layout - Telerik Reporting offers a brilliant way to provide dynamic layouts by docking/anchoring report items.
"Easibility" in Business
- Convert Reports from Crystal Reports, XtraReports and Active Reports* - There is no need to redo your existing reports, because they can be reused with the help of the effortless Report Converter Wizard.
 RTL Language and Globalization Support - Due to business globalization, the need of multi-lingual and culturally aware applications is a requirement. Telerik Reporting is now culturally aware and you can have your reports use more than one culture at the same time. The cultures can be applied to the whole report or to specific items. - Royalty Free Licensing with Source for Better ROI - Telerik Reporting is the perfect solution for companies that need an advanced royalty-free solution for professional creation and viewing of reports. Source code is available with most licenses. Telerik also offers the most aggressive release schedule in the industry with guaranteed 3 major releases per year.
- Variety of export formats - Telerik Reporting supports the most commonly used output formats out-of-the-box: PDF, Excel, RTF, CSV, MHTML, BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF and metafile (EMF).
- Technical Support and Resources - Telerik offers online Forums for the community, as well as wealth of online support resources to minimize the learning curve (Knowledge Base, extensive documentation, product videos, Code Library, etc.). All of this is in addition to the outstanding technical support Telerik is known for with a 1 business day turnaround on technical inquiries via our support ticketing system.
- End-user Win and Web Report Viewers with PDF support - For complete control over viewing reports, the Telerik Reporting offers Windows Forms and Web Viewers, which guarantees you will always get the same look of your reports, regardless of the platform. Both viewers can export reports to PDF and are available within VS2008/VS2005 with individual design-time support.
* Crystal Reports is a trademark of Business Objects; Active Reports is a trademark of Data Dynamics; XtraReports is a trademark of Developer Express Inc.
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