# Fluent Software Reviews, Demo & Pricing - 2026 > Review of Fluent Software: system overview, features, price and cost information. Get free demos and compare to similar programs. Source: https://www.softwareadvice.com/bi/windward-reporting-profile --- [Home](https://www.softwareadvice.com/) / [Document Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com/category/722-document-management/) / Fluent Software Advice offers objective insights based on verified user reviews and independent product and market research. When our advisors match you to a software provider, we may earn a referral fee. Overview [Reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/document-generation/fluent-profile/reviews/)[Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/document-generation/fluent-profile/alternatives/) # Fluent 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing Wondering if Fluent is right for your organization? Our Document Management Software selection experts can help you in 15 minutes or less. On this page - Overview - User Interface - Popular Alternatives - Pricing and Plans - Features - Integrations - User Reviews ## Overview Fluent 4.8 [(41)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/document-generation/fluent-profile/reviews/) Pricing Pricing available upon request ### About Fluent Fluent (formerly Windward Core) is a powerful document generation platform combining an MS Office designer plugin, a centralized template manager, and a best-in-class engine to automate your business’s frequently created documents. Wondering if Fluent is right for your organization? Our Document Management Software selection experts can help you in 15 minutes or less. ## Fluent User Interface ## Popular Fluent Alternatives Main Product Fluent 4.8 [(41)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/document-generation/fluent-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.55Ease of use - 4.75Value for money - 4.90Customer support - 4.67Functionality Pricing Available upon request Get Price Alternative Product [Domo](https://www.softwareadvice.com/bi/domo-profile/) 4.3 [(330)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/bi/domo-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.13Ease of use - 3.97Value for money - 4.03Customer support - 4.27Functionality Pricing Available upon request Get Price Alternative Product [Reach Reporting](https://www.softwareadvice.com/bi/reach-reporting-profile/) 4.9 [(43)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/bi/reach-reporting-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.84Ease of use - 4.72Value for money - 4.85Customer support - 4.63Functionality Pricing Starting at $149.00 per month Get Price Alternative Product [Board](https://www.softwareadvice.com/product/1931-BOARD/) 4.5 [(138)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/product/1931-BOARD/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.35Ease of use - 4.21Value for money - 4.51Customer support - 4.51Functionality Pricing Available upon request Get Price Alternative Product [IBM Cognos Analytics](https://www.softwareadvice.com/bi/ibm-cognos-analytics-profile/) 4.2 [(137)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/bi/ibm-cognos-analytics-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 3.78Ease of use - 3.89Value for money - 3.81Customer support - 4.15Functionality Pricing Starting at $10.60 per month Get Price Alternative Product [Bicxo](https://www.softwareadvice.com/bi/bicxo-profile/) 5.0 [(1)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/bi/bicxo-profile/#reviews) Ratings Breakdown - 5.0Ease of use - 5.0Value for money - 5.0Customer support - 4.0Functionality Pricing Starting at $200.00 per month Get Price ## Fluent Pricing and Plans Starting price: Connect with an advisor for pricing Free Trial Free Version Confused about pricing? We've got you covered. Get a personalized pricing breakdown tailored to your specific needs—no guesswork, no generic estimates. ## Fluent Features - Popular features found in Document Management Access Controls/Permissions Archiving & Retention Collaboration Tools Compliance Tracking Document Classification Document Editing Document Generation Electronic Signature File Conversion File Sharing Third-Party Integrations Version Control - More features of Fluent Ad hoc Query Ad hoc Reporting API Batch Processing Content Management Customizable Templates Data Capture and Transfer Data Connectors Data Import/Export Data Mapping Data Storage Management Data Synchronization Data Visualization Document Automation Document Management Document Review Document Storage Document Templates Drag & Drop Financial Reporting Interaction Tracking Marketing Reports Multiple Data Sources Multiple Format Support Multiple Output Formats Reporting/Analytics Reporting & Statistics Sales Reports Scheduled/Automated Reports Search/Filter Template Management Templates Visual Analytics ## Fluent Integrations Marketo Engage Integration rated undefined from -1 review Meta for Business Integration rated undefined from -1 review ActiveCampaign Integration rated undefined from -1 review SAP Concur Integration rated undefined from -1 review Docusign Integration rated undefined from -1 review Microsoft Word Integration rated undefined from -1 review See all 26 integrations ## Fluent User Reviews Overall Rating 4.8 Ratings Breakdown 5 83% 4 17% 3 0% 2 0% 1 0% Secondary Ratings Ease of Use 4.5 Value for money 4.8 Customer support 4.9 Functionality 4.7 VR Verified Reviewer Used other for more than 2 years Review source Reviewed November 2017 Enterprise Reporting 5 Quick to use but powerful and customizable. Easy to integrate with a nice API. Ratings Breakdown 5 Ease of use 5 Value for money 5 Customer support 5 Functionality Pros: Really great people behind the scenes who are willing to help and knowledgable about how to best utilize the software. Read More CH Christopher H. Verified reviewer Non-Profit Organization Management 5001-10000 employees Used weekly for less than 12 months Review source Reviewed December 2020 WIndward Studios Designer has all of the functionality you need to generate reports from a Database 4 We reduced the time to generate 100+ page contracts from 24 hours via cut and paste methods (and an average 15 days turnaround, to literally 5 minutes and 1 day turnaround. At 8 Contract updates per month average, we estimate that 1 person-year will drop to a week or so. The PMO sponsors are thrilled; they free up to do higher value work. The ROI is hugely compelling. Ratings Breakdown 4 Ease of use 5 Value for money 5 Customer support 5 Functionality Pros: There are so many. Connecting to 1 or more data sources is straightforward. The Wizard lets even non-SQL practitioners build the logic via the Wizard. In-line previews are so useful. The ability to establish Office formatting at the field level is impeccable once you understand it. Our developers wanted to build it in house, but my estimate it would have taken 4-6 developer years to have even an MVP candidate (and that would still have only yielded about 50-70% of the functionality you get from this COTS product). The built-in error messaging and cc to help desk is very handy (requires more advanced users to decipher). Compatibility with the MSFT XML mapping is very impressive. WIndward's on-boarding support was great, and you get a lot of time from a dedicated SE to ramp up. Cons: Minor things: - the license key failed a few times- but Windward resolved the same day each time. - the built-in help, documentation and Wiki blog posts are extensive but sometimes out-dated. - Not really a con, but: the functionality is so extensive that it took me (an Advanced Office user with moderate SQL skills) about 6 months to deploy operationally. As with Analytics, make sure the DB schema and data is robust, then prepare to roll up your sleeves to earn your rewards. Vendor Response Thank you for your very kind words, Replied December 2020 Read More EH Erik H. Used daily for less than 2 years Review source Reviewed November 2017 Powerful product which is constantly evolving and growing. 4 Ratings Breakdown 3 Ease of use 5 Value for money 5 Customer support 5 Functionality Pros: Powerful tooling, with easy to use wizards to help you select and preview your data. Hides the complexity of data selection and document generation. Read More CS Clint S. Verified reviewer Insurance 51-200 employees Used daily for more than 2 years Reviewed September 2019 Meets all our needs 5 Ratings Breakdown 4 Ease of use 5 Value for money 5 Customer support 5 Functionality Pros: The Windward report designer has many features allowing our business analysts to create the report/document templates need for our business. Also, the Windward RESTful engine is very easy to implement and integrate with other systems. Windwards support is excellent as well. Cons: Needs better support for JSON data sources. Reasons for choosing Fluent It had everything we were looking for in a document generation solution. Reasons for switching to Fluent The vendor stopped support, and overly complex to use. Vendor Response Hi Clint; Thank you for the very nice review. On your request for additional support for JSON datasources, please email me (david@windward.net) to give me specifics. Or you can make suggestions at http://ideas.windwardstudios.com/ We're always working on improving the product. thanks - dave Replied November 2019 Read More HALEH M. Verified reviewer Information Technology and Services 11-50 employees Used weekly for more than 2 years Review source Reviewed February 2020 Windward Studios 5 I use this tool (Auto tag) weekly to design reports and have different outputs such as \*.docx, \*.xlxs, ... Ratings Breakdown 5 Ease of use 5 Value for money 5 Customer support 5 Functionality Pros: This is a powerful tool to design and generate a word, excel, pdf, ... reports and connecting to different data sources such as JSON, XML, SQL,... Cons: Totally I haven't found any negative point with this tool which has stopped me working as I can generate different reports based on my data Read More RS Robert S. Hospital & Health Care 1001-5000 employees Used daily for less than 12 months Reviewed January 2019 Windward document generation 5 The purchase of the software was straight forward. Software and licenses were easy to install. Windward software is as advertised. Support is great. Windward recommended a professional services vendor that delivered as well as the Windward product. I strongly recommend Windward as a document generation solution. Ratings Breakdown 5 Ease of use 5 Value for money 4 Customer support 4 Functionality Pros: Windward design studio has put the ability to develop new documents in the hands of operations, and frees engineering resources. The engine delivers output as promised. We have not seen the engine struggle to produce everything sent that way. The support is great. We encountered our barcode was custom and needed Windward support. They responded quickly, worked through the issue and after a few attempts solved the issue, quickly. Cons: Support was responsive but encountered a barcode issue that required multiple attempts to solve. It is a reality of software, but is the only con I could provide. Read More RD Rob D. Hospital & Health Care 51-200 employees Used daily for less than 2 years Review source Reviewed August 2016 A great piece of kit 4 I have been using Windward for nearly 2 years now and it has been the root cause of us being able to achieve what we set out to do. Needing to eradicate a number of repetitive Excel based reports, Autotag allowed us to build robust templates and improve our reporting ability and have greater control over our data. Ratings Breakdown 4 Ease of use 5 Value for money 5 Customer support 4 Functionality Pros: I love the fact that it sits in Microsoft products so easily. I feel this helps reduce a lot of the burden of learning a new piece of software as you are halfway there through your knowledge of programmes such as Word and Excel. Cons: Like most reporting software there are a few nuances that need to be understood to be able to work around them, but ultimately there are only a few of these and they generally aren't of a critical nature. Read More SP Suresh P. Information Technology and Services 1001-5000 employees Used daily for more than 2 years Reviewed February 2019 A powerful tool for automating the doc generation. 5 We use the Java engine to generate docs (PDF & Word) through a web application, and it's quick and straightforward to implement. Overall it's a great tool to create automated reports for web applications. Ratings Breakdown 4 Ease of use 4 Value for money 5 Customer support 5 Functionality Pros: Good customer support Continuous improvement on the features Cons: You need to tweak the template a lot to get a pixel-perfect output for both Word and PDF. Vendor Response Hi Suresh; Thank you for your very nice review. I understand your desire to get pixel-perfect output easier. Unfortunately on that we're all at the mercy of Adobe Acrobat & Microsoft Word. thanks - dave Replied November 2019 Read More EB Ed B. Verified reviewer Electrical/ Electronic Manufacturing 201-500 employees Used weekly for less than 2 years Reviewed March 2019 AutoTag templates - 5 Superior service. Originally, the engine server failed to generate document output for our AutoTag templates. Windward analyzed and found that an exception was being thrown: "please see 'v16 RD exception received.txt'." They resolved the issue quickly with a patch and later added the fix to an updated formal version of the engine. The support team member helping me was very helpful and courteous. I have found the tag tree very helpful since it allows me to copy and paste code from other tags. I can then make some quick modifications to that code to suit the tag I am currently working on. Ratings Breakdown 4 Ease of use 5 Customer support 4 Functionality Pros: The tag tree is very helpful for making quick modifications to the coding. The wizard is very handy in creating code for the tags. Cons: More complex coding is sometimes easier to modify manually, then view in the wizard. Vendor Response Ed - thank you for the very nice review. And I agree, our support team rocks. I'm very proud of them. Replied November 2019 Read More VR Verified Reviewer Computer Software 11-50 employees Used weekly for less than 2 years Reviewed January 2019 Review for Windward Java Engine 5 We need to create commercial quality operation reports. Windward is a perfect fit. It reduced our report development time a lot. The support is very good. Ratings Breakdown 5 Ease of use 5 Value for money 5 Customer support 5 Functionality Pros: 1\. Never crash 2. Easy to use and set up 3. Able to support complex reporting logics 4. Fairly fast 5. Good support Cons: 1\. Need to use Word/Excel to build the report, no web based report builder for Java Engine. It can be a good thing, as most of our reports are in PDF, Word or Excel format. 2. It doesn't have built-in JSON format, we have report data that are in JSON format. Vendor Response Thank you for your very nice review. On the JSON issue we do support JSON datasources (added about 3 years ago). Please upgrade to version 15 or later to see this functionality. Again, thank you for the very nice review. Replied February 2019 Read More Showing 1 - 10 of 41 Reviews [See All Reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/document-generation/fluent-profile/reviews/) ## Other Top Recommended Document Management Software [Square 9](https://www.softwareadvice.com/cms/square-9-profile/) **4.5** (141) Recently recommended **14** times [Revver](https://www.softwareadvice.com/cms/revver-profile/) **4.4** (965) Recently recommended **12** times [Conga Composer](https://www.softwareadvice.com/cms/conga-document-generation-profile/) **4.4** (116) Recently recommended **12** times [Klyck](https://www.softwareadvice.com/business-plan/klyck-profile/) **4.9** (29) Recently recommended **12** times Stuck Between Options? Our experts can help you compare Fluent with other top options, so you can find the best fit for your needs. ## See what companies are saying about Software Advice