Fluent 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing
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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.
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Fluent Features
- Popular features found in Document ManagementAccess Controls/PermissionsArchiving & RetentionCollaboration ToolsCompliance TrackingDocument ClassificationDocument EditingDocument GenerationElectronic SignatureFile ConversionFile SharingThird-Party IntegrationsVersion Control
- More features of FluentAd hoc QueryAd hoc ReportingAPIBatch ProcessingContent ManagementCustomizable TemplatesData Capture and TransferData ConnectorsData Import/ExportData MappingData Storage ManagementData SynchronizationData VisualizationDocument AutomationDocument ManagementDocument ReviewDocument StorageDocument TemplatesDrag & DropFinancial ReportingInteraction TrackingMarketing ReportsMultiple Data SourcesMultiple Format SupportMultiple Output FormatsReporting/AnalyticsReporting & StatisticsSales ReportsScheduled/Automated ReportsSearch/FilterTemplate ManagementTemplatesVisual Analytics
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Fluent User Reviews
Overall Rating
4.8
Ratings Breakdown
5
83%
4
17%
3
0%
2
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1
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Secondary Ratings
Ease of Use
4.5
Value for money
4.8
Customer support
4.9
Functionality
4.7

JC L.
Verified reviewer
Non-Profit Organization Management
201-500 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
Reviewed January 2019
Happy with Windward
5
NCC has been using Windward products as the reporting component of our land information system for over a decade now. It has always worked well for us, and we're planning to continue using it following a major system upgrade this coming year. Customer service and tech support has been great over the years, so we're pretty happy. Their developers have been responsive to requests from us regarding certain features, which is really nice.
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Vendor Response
Thank you for the nice words and we love having you as a customer. And you've had some great suggestions for us for features over the years.
Replied January 2019
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Insurance
1001-5000 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
Review sourceReviewed March 2021
Windward: A Cool Breeze and Breath of Fresh Air
5
When I was first tasked to find a new DocGen provider I muted my mic on Teams and cursed. Then I hit the internet and kept seeing a name pop up in the best of list round-ups, Windward. In the search for the perfect DocGen solution, I learned that simply searching for dynamic document generation turned up a lot of results that made it hard to find what we were looing for. I found that if I looked specifically for dynamic document elements, my search was greatly narrowed down and Windward allows for the most dynamic document elements of any other provider I looked into. Their test documents revealed that they were considering nearly every test case I was hoping to prove out. So, immediately they reduced my investigation time, by being so upfront. They can control for tables, images, text, colors, graphs, whole pages of a document and all of the elements within the document with variables in the data I pass. We had a use case scenario they said they had never heard before and sat with us to work through the problem and then came back with alternate solution that was perfect. Windward not only has exceeded any expectations, but they've absolutely impressed me with their service and their feature-rich product. As a company, we wanted a solution that could take us to the next level. Windward has helped us create proposals for our clients that look like they were crafted by hand specifically for that client. Windward makes our company look great.
Ratings Breakdown
Reasons for choosing Fluent
Formstack, Docusign, Templafy, Docmosis, Newgen
Reasons for switching to Fluent
Reporting Cloud only has basic features for generating dynamic documents. Documents need to be recreated within the Reporting Cloud using their native form builder to really get the best control over the document elements.
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Gary F.
Used unspecified for unspecified
Review sourceReviewed June 2015
Combine hundreds of MS Word reports, tens of thousands of lines of code, a report in seconds!
4
We're thrilled to have found this product! We recently finished a large PHP project and used Windward Reports (Autotag and Javelin Rest Services) as the reporting engine. Much of those reports employed some very large and complex scenarios. "Many" logical branches (If, Case, Loops). What the reporting package didn't have, we were able to create and add in the form of our own C# custom functions to fill the gap to handle everything from JSON Arrays to specialized functions to manage complex English linguistics. The ability to create a live report (WYSIWYG) right within Word, use styles and native MS Graphs lets Windward reports really shine through! You'll love it! While we built our reports upon one data source (MySQL), the package itself easily handles dozens of data types to import and work with. The speed at which we are seeing these reports generate is also worth noting. Extremely fast considering the number of iterations for the number of calculations. Autotag (the report designer add-in) also allows for variables to easily get passed into the reports and lets you create PODS to share variables and data you've used between users and designers. The real magic though is their fantastic support team backed by some A1 developers. What we didn't understand, Windward always explained to us and if something didn't work in the product, support made sure we had a work around or the product itself was able to perform at the required level. If you're looking for a reporting solution that backs onto Microsoft Office, can be built in as a service to run independently or from a user workstation (Autotag), I highly recommend you check out Windward Reports before investing time in other products! Of course, every rose has a few thorns and Autotag is without exception. We did find a few things! 1. Expect a learning curve. Debugging a report or figuring out why a report might not run can be challenging as your reports grow in complexity. 2. Graphs do not always appear as they should when output into PDF and other formats. However, Windward is addressing this now developing a new PDF engine to output with. 3. If you use a lot of complex formatting and styles, expect some challenges and minor nuances.
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Computer Software
2-10 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
Reviewed January 2019
Enabling Technology making document generation easy
5
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Vendor Response
Thank you for the nice review. And we are working to improve the documentation even more - there's (always) a lot more we can do with it.
Replied February 2019
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Christopher R.
Verified reviewer
Computer Software
11-50 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
Reviewed January 2019
Awesome Service for Report Generation
5
The experience has been excellent! Support is superb!
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Bert v.
Verified reviewer
Retail
10000+ employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
Review sourceReviewed December 2019
Very useful tool to create business documents
5
Creation of complex business documents, from various database datasets.
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Reasons for choosing Fluent
Rich features, JSON based Rest interface, on premise model, licence without volume restrictions. And not to forget, excellent support.
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Computer Software
51-200 employees
Used weekly for less than 2 years
Reviewed January 2019
Template design made easy
4
Windward studios is an interesting product if you want to flexible yet sound template making without the help of IT. The support team reacts very quickly although they can not always accommodate.
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Vendor Response
Thank you for the very nice review. On your comment about the pricing, we have now switched to subscription pricing which both delivers a lower price point and allows you to easily adjust your pricing month to month to match your needs. Please let me know if this does not address this issue for you.
Replied January 2019
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Denis I.
Verified reviewer
Public Safety
10000+ employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
Review sourceReviewed April 2019
The best Publishing tool
5
Great experience working with Winward. Very responsive team, They really care about your experience. Most of the time I am dealing with very complex situations and they never brushed me off. Great product, great support and I see that product is changing all the time to evolve to better and better version.
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Vendor Response
Thank you very much for the wonderful review
Replied April 2019
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Xen S.
Verified reviewer
Telecommunications
201-500 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
Reviewed January 2019
Awesome Product
5
Implementing Windward to manage our invoicing and customer communications is a breath of fresh air! Unlike XSL templates, anybody can easily create and update templates using the Report Designer. It is a piece of cake – it didn’t require me technical knowledge or even a formal training… just applied simple logic and it was like something I’ve been doing for years! As a portfolio lead and business analyst, I’ve seen quite a lot of applications/tools that end up making the business adjust to satisfy how the application works. But not Windward, it is an application that adjusts to work for the business!
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Vendor Response
Thank you for your incredibly nice words. And I agree, using Office as the design tool has both large advantages and some disadvantages.
Replied January 2019
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Ruben D.
Verified reviewer
Marketing and Advertising
201-500 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
Reviewed November 2019
Great tools to manage documents
5
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