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A Reporting Q&A with Bjoern Meyer, Text Control
Founded in 1991, Text Control is an award-winning Visual Studio Industry Partner and leading vendor of word processing and reporting components for Windows, web and mobile development technologies.
Q What is Text Control doing?
A Since 25 years, our products and technologies help thousands of developers add comprehensive reporting and word processing functionality to their applications. Our mission is to use everyday innova- tion to uncover our user’s real reporting requirements.
Digital transformation changed every process in
today’s business world. The number of e-commerce
transactions skyrocket and supply chains are fully
connected. In nearly any business process, documents
and reports need to be designed, created, shared and
archived. Our technologies help companies to
integrate document processing to client, web and cloud solutions to gain the largest competitive advantage.
We have been developing software components for reporting and document processing for more than 25 years. We are continually looking for new and innovative ways to improve document processing to make these processes easier for end-users and more efficient.
Q What is the Text Control Reporting Framework?
A The Text Control Reporting Framework combines powerful reporting features with an easy-to-use, MS Word compatible word processor. Users can create documents and templates using ordinary Microsoft Word skills. It is completely independent from MS Word or any other third-party application and can be completely integrated into business applications. The Text Control Reporting Framework is included in all .NET based TX Text Control products including ASP.NET, Windows Forms and WPF.
Q What sets Text Control Reporting apart from other reporting vendors?
A Text Control Reporting is based on the powerful word processing component TX Text Control. The MS Word compatible template can be merged with a data object (business object) or database content with one line of code. At the same time, Text Control provides a powerful API to customize this merge process completely. The report generation can be fully integrated into .NET applications.
Q Tell us more about your new Cloud reporting Web API
A Text Control ReportingCloud brings complete reporting functionality to the cloud so all developers can use it, irrespective of the platform or language they’re using. Its highly RESTful API can be used to merge Microsoft Word compatible templates with JSON data from all clients including .NET, JavaScript, PHP, Node.JS, jQuery, Ruby, Python, Android, Java and iOS.
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