No code productivity tool
All you need to do is click, double-click, scroll, drag and drop, and occasionally type field expressions.
Empower your technical staff
Enabled business analyst to create reports. The result is the business side of the team can self-service reports on their own without the need to rely on a programmer to do the job. Stakeholders from various departments can take ownership of report creation instead of delegating the task to the IT department.
Save countless person hours
Even the most complex reports can be created in minutes. Quick turnaround time means reports can be created on an on demand basis making Pixel Perfect Reports the perfect tool to create ad hoc report to provide timely business intelligence.
Drastically reduce total cost
Eliminate and reduce the need to hire software developers saving tens of thousands of dollars per year.
Highly performant
The use of subreport in SSRS means the instantiation of one subreport per row at runtime. Obviously this won't scale well. Pixel Perfect Reports does not use subreport resulting in low memory footprint and fast output because there is no instantiation of subreport at runtime.
Visual
Birdseye view of the joins in a SQL statement gives users invaluable insights into the shape of the data it queries.
Graphical representation of filtering logic in a WHERE clause using flowchart makes expressing even the most complex filtering logic trivial.
Highly productive
Support copying and pasting of layout elements such as textfield list etc.
Report support Save As function. Joins and filtering flowchart can be easily edited after it has been created.
Educational
Ideal as a SQL learning tool.
Optimized everything
Pixel Perfect Reports does not use dataset. This means there is no chance of having redundant datasets or unused datasets. Redundant datasets are bad because it means doing the same work multiple times. Unused datasets are bad because the data it fetches are not utilized meaning waste work.
Maintenance free
No subreport means no need to worry subreport is out of sync for various reasons. This also means no need to copy subreport from a development server to a production server during deployment.
WYSIWYG designer
Totally free style designer gives you full control on how elements are rendered with pixel-perfect accuracy. No awkward design elements such as tablix that needs a user to remember when to click inside or outside of a header. No rigid band style designer that divides a canvas into different sections.
Intuitive
Intuitive interface translate into shallow learning curve for the users turning reports creation from a drudgery into a fun task.
Versatile
Pixel Perfect Reports have an uncoupled user interface and data source architecture. This means multiple data sources can be attached to the same design element. This functionality opens up business use case that has tremendous value and is unique among the reporting tools in the market.
Instant feedback
The interactive designer allows the user to effortlessly switch between the canvas, database relationship diagram, alias assignment diagram and the SQL statement generated providing instant feedback to the users during the report design phase.
Standardized
Does not use proprietary language such as those used in Crystal Reports. Embedded functions either use C# or VB.NET.
Intelligent
Automatic detection of ambiguous alias if multiple occurence of the same table from different joins exist in the expression. The designer will warn the user by highlighting the table in the expression and provide a dialog for the user to specify the table alias explicitly.
Simplified Everything
Pixel Perfect Reports does not use datasets as intermediaries. This implies there is only one place to apply filters (at the database) unlike in SSRS where filters can be applied in multiple places with different ramifications. One way of doing things simplify everything.
Powerful
Supports unlimited level of hierarchical data. Functionally this is equivalent to subreport of subreport of subreport...(to n level) in SSRS. In SSRS subreport has a performance impact because it doesn't scale well, so n level of subreport is not a viable option. PixelPerfectReports has no such consideration because it doesn't use the mechanism of subreport.
Hassle Free
Parameters are created behind the scene when designing hierarchical data. Users have the options to select the parameters if they so choose.
No Strict Procedures
Pixel Perfect Reports have an uncoupled user interface and data source architecture. This means a user can design the report layout first without having a database. Studies have shown that this is the preferred ways for most users. The users of course can have the database ready first before designing. Do it your way with confidence.
User Friendly
Support undo in every operation.
Efficient
At runtime data is fetched from the database and rendered directly into the report in one fell swoop without going through a staging state in a dataset. This eliminates one extra step resulting in fast execution and low memory overhead.
Join Is Always Optimal
Join clause is not constructed by users directly but is generated based on configuration input by the user. If a user edits the configuration the join will be regenerated and is always optimal. This is different than in SSRS where a join can have unused portion.
Risk Free
Try the full-featured 30-day trial version before making a purchase. The trial version is identical to the licensed version, except that it includes watermark on the output.