CA Deliver vs Windward Core comparison

Broadcom and Windward Studios are both solutions in the Reporting category. Broadcom is ranked #45, while Windward Studios is ranked #25. Broadcom holds a 0.0% mindshare in RT, compared to Windward Studios’s 0.5% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Broadcom users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Windward Studios users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 4, 2025

Windward Core and CA Deliver compete in document generation and management. Windward Core is preferred for its ease of use and integration, while CA Deliver is recognized for its robust functionality, which many find worth the investment.

Features: Windward Core is known for user-friendly features, offering powerful template design and effortless data source support, making it ideal for customizable solutions. Its integration capabilities are highly regarded. CA Deliver stands out for comprehensive document delivery, archiving features, and ensuring regulatory compliance and large-scale processing. The main difference is Windward Core's flexibility compared to CA Deliver's delivery capabilities.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Windward Core is known for simple deployment and seamless integration into existing IT environments, with responsive support. CA Deliver offers structured deployment suitable for complex enterprise document distribution, supported by reliable, though less flexible, services. The main distinction lies in Windward Core's simplified deployment versus CA Deliver's structured approach.

Pricing and ROI: Windward Core provides competitive pricing with high ROI due to quick deployment and low training costs. CA Deliver involves a higher initial setup cost, but its comprehensive system capabilities are valuable for large operations. The main difference is Windward Core's cost-effectiveness and rapid ROI, contrasted with CA Deliver's larger investment and long-term benefits.

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Categories and Ranking

CA Deliver

Ranking in Reporting

45th

Average Rating

9.6

Reviews Sentiment

8.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Windward Core

Ranking in Reporting

25th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

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Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Reporting category, the mindshare of CA Deliver is 0.0%, up from 0.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Windward Core is 0.5%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Reporting

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it_user346092

Senior Systems Programmer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

It's in essence a digital bank that keep customer information for 40 to 50 years, accessible 24/7.

It’s an archiving solution with all the support of CA. All your customer data flows through it, from their names to all their other details The benefits are that it keeps their information for over 40 to 50 years, so in essence it's a digital bank for customer information. This means that the…

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Hit Mistry

Vice President at PSC Group, LLC

It has streamlined a lot of our reporting processes

Their PDF needs improvement. We've run into some issues when we tried to generate a Word document. If we try to generate the same document in PDF, sometimes it doesn't look exactly the same. We have gone back to Windward support a couple of times on a few issues, e.g., we had some issues with reports that had barcodes on them. The barcode wasn't displaying properly. It was displaying as a skewed image as opposed to an actual barcode. Therefore, we worked with Windward support, having some daily calls with them. Then, within the next release, they were able to resolve the issue. They even gave us a pre-release, so we could implement it into our code before the actual official release on the website. It would be nice to have some sort of workflow capability within the product. Anytime you generate a document, nine out of ten times there is something which precedes that document, whether it's entering parameters in, e.g., if I'm requesting the status report for a project. The first thing that I usually want from a status perspective is which project is the status report for and which week is it for, as those are some of the things that I have to supply before I can generate a document. From a workflow perspective, it would be nice to say, "This project belongs to this person, and this person is okay with me pulling information out of this document for whatever need I have." From a workflow perspective, I would like a wizard interface that goes step-by-step, like a questionnaire, where there are a bunch of things that you have to answer, "Yes or no," before it knows what to do or how to produce the document. Right now, we write our own custom UI for this.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"Having one repository for various output formats and retention periods. Provides the flexibility to establish hundreds of different retention entries, based upon business need, and then group the like retention period outputs together on the same media. It is very efficient."

"Flexibility of report configuration; allows for quick and simple amendments to definitions."

"We can develop any report at least five times faster."

"One of the features that we have found most important is that the report builder is in Word, so it was very easy to get into it... We could also use some of our existing Word templates."

"The most valuable feature is that it provides good, dynamic document-generation performance and the documents are being generated reliably."

"The Windward solution was very fast to rollout, and it is proven."

"The design tool, with all of its features and sample output fidelity tests, and being able to work with JSON data and output PDF and HTML, were also both crucial."

"We ended up going with Windward for the level of support we got from them during our proof of concept."

"The two features that I like the best are the ability to generate Word and Excel documents, and the ability to create my templates directly inside those software sets. It's absolutely critical for me as a user to have design and layout control, because all of my reports are very, very customized. I have to have control over the ability to generate and to control what they look like."

"From an integration perspective, they provide the code for you to easily integrate with existing applications."

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Cons

"Needs ability to allow export to xls/pdf, etc. (Note: this is available in add-on product CA – OM Web Viewer)."

"A common theme with all CA products is they state compatibility with new technologies when it has not yet been proven. I cite the example that CA mainframe products were deemed to be compatible with Extended Address Volumes (EAV) - larger sized disk volumes - when they were not."

"It needs better support for upgrades and more control over layout of elements. Upgrades tend to break existing output. Elements do not position where expected due to insertion of blank lines and page breaks. It takes time to fix these through trial and error."

"It would be nice to have a black-and-white, ideal setup for servers, to maximize capabilities. We went through a lot of scenarios to get something that is scalable. An ideal AWS-package server setup could have saved us a lot of time. But I understand this is very company specific."

"The error reports also need improvement. If you don't key it in right, it's a little hard to find the root cause. It gives you information as much as it can, but it doesn't really hone in and tell you explicitly what you should do to correct the problem."

"I have to deal with VERY long lists of properties contained in our XMLs and it would be nice if Windward offered a way to alphabetize this property list."

"The reason it took us so long to get the system up and running is that the APIs could be improved a bit. It could be a little bit more interoperable with software, without having to do a lot of the heavy lifting that we had do to get it in."

"AutoTag needs to be web-based, so our customers can create reports from our web."

"The tool does not support macOS documents."

"There are some Excel formatting things that you lose when you implement a template: some default Excel validation scripts, macros. You could create them in Excel if you were just using Excel, but in creating a template that generates a report, some of those validation things are lost."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Pricing is reasonable, licensing model suitable for large enterprises."

"It is absolutely worth the value. They have flexibility, depending on what you're looking for from a buying standpoint. The current pricing models are quite flexible, with the ability to use it on an as-needed basis, or to get a perpetual license that covers a customer that might have extensive needs. I think it's pretty good."

"Windward is very expensive when the volume of documents being generated is low and it is cheap when the volume is high."

"From my experience in this field, the product is reasonably priced, at least with the RESTful engine implementation. It's definitely not a cheap option. People say, "That's a fair amount of money to pay for a document generation tool." At the same time, you do get good functionality and the support is good."

"They are fair and flexible. They are willing to work with your current architecture to make sure you have the best deal."

"CapEx fits our requirements, OpEx is higher due to the 20% service and maintenance cost, where we normally pay 15%."

"The cost is reasonable."

"We negotiated our prices many years ago, and while they go up a little bit here and there, they've been pretty steady."

"I can't advise anybody about pricing and licensing, but it was competitive. A lot of things we did look at were all volume-based, so it was a case of you buy a license to generate this many reports a year, and that's not something that I'm particularly interested in because it doesn't give you any idea - if we have future growth, or if we have a lean year - for budgeting reasons it's more difficult. With Windward it's a straight out license fee, whether we generate one page or we generate a million, it makes no difference."

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Financial Services Firm

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13%

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Overview

CA Deliver is an online report management system that provides you with tools to manage and reduce the cost of report distribution. Able to be utilized by itself or in conjunction with other enterprise report management solutions from CA Technologies, CA Deliver uses the power of the mainframe to automate the day-to-day report management functions of distribution, tracking and printing.

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What is Windward Studios?

For over a decade, Windward has been a leader in the software development industry by creating the most innovative and advanced document automation and reporting software on the planet.

Data-Driven Document Automation

Generate stunning documents that incorporate relevant data easily and seamlessly.

Visually Striking Designs

Our software provides innovative tools and features to build beautiful designs and stunning layouts, all within the familiar Microsoft Office Suite. Your imagination is the only limitation.

Agile Document Logic

We offer the best document automation software for the new millennium. With our conditional logic functionality, you can swiftly personalize the document content to gratify your end users.

Huge Time Saver

Looking for faster template creation that enables you to keep pace with your business? With our software, template creation takes minutes and you do not need any programming experience to get it done.

Exceptionally Intuitive Interface

Our program's design offers documents that can be edited, customized and designed using MS Office. Enjoy a stress-free document automation experience in programs you already know.

Efficient Savings

Significantly reduce the resources and time required for template development by using our streamlined template design and document automation tools.

Windward Studios

Sample Customers

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HAL, Inc., Axe Group, White Clark Group, Blueprint Software, Aspect Security, Nucleus Software, LeBlanc’s Food Stores, South Sound 911, Aegon, Barclays, Fidelity Investments, ArisGlobal LLC, USDA, RepLink, AON Hewitt

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