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Report Design Features

	combit	combit	DevExpress	Fast Reports	GrapeCity	Microsoft	SAP	Stimulsoft	Telerik	TIBCO Jaspersoft
	List & Label (26)	List & Label (27)	Universal (21.1)	FastReport.Net (2021.4)	ActiveReports (15)	SSRS (2019)	Crystal Reports 2020 (14.3.x)	Ultimate (2021.4)	Telerik Reporting (R3 2021)	Jaspersoft Studio (6.17)
Number of supported features	162	165	116	93	93	92	94	122	125	86
Aggregate with previous values	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Collapsible regions	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬
Collection variables	●	●	▬	▬	▬	●	▬	▬	▬	▬
Conditional formatting	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Crystal Reports compatible	●	●	●	●	●	▬	●	●	●	▬
Custom scripts per item and event	▬	▬	●	●	▬	▬	▬	●	●	▬
Design schemes	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Design schemes per item	▬¹	▬¹	●	▬¹	▬¹	▬	▬¹	●	▬¹	▬¹
Design wizard	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Drilldown	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
End User designer	●	●	●	●	●	▬	●	●	●	●
Format Painter	●	●	▬	●	▬	▬	●	●	▬	▬
Hyperlink embedding	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Interactive sorting	●	●	▬²	▬²	▬	●	●	●	▬²	●
Label support	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬
Label templates	●	●	▬	▬	●	▬	●	●	●	▬
Localization / Internationalization	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬³
Multilanguage (language quantity)	● (12)	● (12)	▬²	● (28)	▬²	● (11)	● (24)	● (30)	▬²	● (2)
Native aggregate functions	●	●	▬	●	●	●	▬	▬	▬	▬
Native barcode support (quantity)	● (58)	● (59)	● (27)	● (24)	● (63)	▬	● (11)	● (32)	● (26)	● (41)
Nested tables	●	●	●	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	●	▬
Report parameter	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Restore last step	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Ribbon-UI	●	●	●	▬	▬	●	▬	●	●	▬
Side-by-side reports	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Spell checker	▬	▬	●	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬²	▬
True layout for the reports	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Unicode, internationalization support	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
User-defined Functions	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
User-defined Objects	●	●	●	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	●	▬
Web Report Designer	●	●	●	●	●	▬	▬	●	●	●
WYSIWYG full page design	●	●	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	●	●	▬

Features for Users

Report Preview Features

In addition to report design features, such as design schemes, designer objects, Web Designer, and assistants, features in the preview are also highlighted. This way you can check whether, for example, collection variables, collapsible regions or interactive sorting are available. Licensing and ways to distribute a report designer along with your application are another important point. Some reporting tool providers charge additional runtime fees in this case, others don’t.

Fees per installed designer may be difficult to predict in advance. But if the designer can be distributed without any additional fees, the overall cost is much more transparent. If your business case requires the ability to design reports yourself and make them available to users for a fee, you’ll benefit from a designer that offers the features to implement all the design requests yourself.

Viewer Features

	combit	combit	DevExpress	Fast Reports	GrapeCity	Microsoft	SAP	Stimulsoft	Telerik	TIBCO Jaspersoft
	List & Label (26)	List & Label (27)	Universal (21.1)	FastReport.Net (2021.4)	ActiveReports (15)	SSRS (2019)	Crystal Reports 2020 (14.3.x)	Ultimate (2021.4)	Telerik Reporting (R3 2021)	Jaspersoft Studio (6.17)
Collapsible regions	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬
Collapsible regions (Web)	●	●	●	▬	▬	●	▬	▬	●	▬
Interactive sorting	●	●	▬²	▬²	▬	●	●	●	●	●
Interactive sorting (Web)	●	●	▬	▬	▬	●	▬	●	●	●
Multilanguage (language quantity)	● (12)	● (12)	▬²	● (28)	▬	● (11)	● (9)	● (28)	▬²	▬²
Report parameter	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Report parameter with drilldown	●	●	▬	▬	▬	●	▬	●	●	●
Report parameter with drilldown (Web)	●	●	▬	▬	●	●	▬	▬	●	●
Ribbon-UI	●	●	●	●	▬	▬	▬	▬	●	▬
Side-by-side Reports	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Subreports	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Viewer-Technology – AJAX	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬
Viewer-Technology – HTML	●	●	●	▬	●	●	●	●	●	▬
Viewer-Technology – HTML5	●	●	●	▬	●	●	●	●	●	▬
Viewer-Technology – Java	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	●	●	▬	●
Viewer-Technology – OCX	●	●	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬
Viewer-Technology – Silverlight	▬	▬	●	▬	●	▬	▬	●	●	▬
Viewer-Technology – Standalone	●	●	●	●	●	▬	●	●	●	▬
Viewer-Technology – Windows-Forms	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬
Viewer-Technology – WinRT	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	●	▬	▬
Viewer-Technology – WPF	●	●	●	●	●	▬	●	●	●	▬

Barcodes and Charts in the Reporting Tools

Barcodes for Your Applications

Many documents and reports require barcodes. Therefore, a large selection of different barcodes is mandatory. The more barcodes that are supplied, the more confident you can be that your users will always be able to use the required one, e.g. EAN, Codablock F, or MicroPDF417. Is it created directly from the reporting tool? Or do special fonts have to be installed for it?

Charts – The More, The Better

Even the type and amount of charts plays a role. Most tools have standard charts such as the bar chart, line chart, and pie chart. It gets even more challenging if you’d like to offer your users Gantt, treemap, or waterfall charts. Compare the output formats in the list of reporting tools as well! Your users save time-intensive conversions, if they can directly export into the needed output format, e.g. PDF, SVG or XHTML.

Report Features

	combit	combit	DevExpress	Fast Reports	GrapeCity	Microsoft	SAP	Stimulsoft	Telerik	TIBCO Jaspersoft
	List & Label (26)	List & Label (27)	Universal (21.1)	FastReport.Net (2021.4)	ActiveReports (15)	SSRS (2019)	Crystal Reports 2020 (14.3.x)	Ultimate (2021.4)	Telerik Reporting (R3 2021)	Jaspersoft Studio (6.17)
Automatically generated index	●	●	▬²	▬	▬	▬	▬²	▬²	●	▬²
Automatically generated table of contents	●	●	▬²	▬	▬	▬	▬²	▬²	●	▬²
Calendar	▬	▬	▬³	▬	●	▬	▬	▬	▬³	▬
Chart type – Area	●	●	●	●	▬	●	●	●	●	●
Chart type – Bar	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Chart type – Bar & Lines mixed	●	●	●	●	▬	▬	●	▬	●	▬³
Chart type – Bubbles / Dots	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Chart type – Candlestick	▬⁴	▬⁴	●	▬	▬	●	▬	●	●	●
Chart type – Circle / Ring	●	●	●	●	▬	●	●	●	●	●
Chart type – Funnel	●	●	●	●	▬	●	●	●	▬	▬
Chart type – Lines / Symbols	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Chart type – Maps / Shapefiles	●	●	▬³	●	▬	●	●	▬	●	▬
Chart type – Radar	●	●	●	●	▬	●	●	●	●	●
Chart type – Range	▬⁴	▬⁴	●	●	●	●	▬	●	●	●
Chart type – Rscript	●	●	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬
Chart type – Treemap	●	●	▬	▬	▬	●	▬	▬	●	●
Chart type – Waterfall	▬⁴	▬⁴	●	▬	▬	▬²	▬	▬	●	●
Cross-tab	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Data graphics	●	●	▬³	▬	▬	●	▬	▬	▬³	▬
Gantt	●	●	●	●	●	▬	●	●	●	●
Gauges / Dashboard-Controls	●	●	▬³	●	●	●	●	▬	▬³	●
OLE Container	●	●	▬²	▬²	●	▬	●	▬	●	▬
OLE Container 64 Bit	●	●	▬	▬	▬	●	▬	●	▬	▬
PDF Object	●	●	▬³	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬³	▬
Print / Preview	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬
Report caching	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
SVG Object	●	●	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬
Web report caching	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬

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	combit	combit	DevExpress	Fast Reports	GrapeCity	Microsoft	SAP	Stimulsoft	Telerik	TIBCO Jaspersoft
	List & Label (26)	List & Label (27)	Universal (21.1)	FastReport.Net (2021.4)	ActiveReports (15)	SSRS (2019)	Crystal Reports 2020 (14.3.x)	Ultimate (2021.4)	Telerik Reporting (R3 2021)	Jaspersoft Studio (6.17)
BMP	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬	●	●	▬
Cloud	●	●	▬	●	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬
CSV	●	●	●	●	▬	●	●	●	●	●
DOC / DOCX	●	●	▬	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Email (Extended MAPI)	●	●	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬
Email (Simple MAPI)	●	●	▬	▬²	▬	▬	●	▬²	▬	▬
Email (SMTP)	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬	▬
EMF	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬	●	●	▬
GIF	▬	▬	●	●	●	●	▬	●	●	▬
HTML	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
HTML5	●	●	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	●	●	▬
JPEG	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬	●	●	▬
JSON	●	●	▬	●	●	▬	▬	▬	▬	●
ODS	▬	▬	▬	●	▬	▬	▬	●	▬	●
ODT	▬	▬	▬	●	▬	▬	▬	●	▬	●
PDF	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
PDF/A	●	●	▬	●	●	▬	▬	●	●	●
PNG	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬	●	●	●
PPT / PPTX	●	●	●	▬	●	●	●	●	●	●
RTF	●	●	●	●	●	▬	●	●	●	●
SharePoint	●	●	▬	▬	▬	●	▬	▬	▬	▬
SVG	●	●	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	●	▬	▬
Text	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬	●
TIFF	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬	●	●	▬
TIFF (Multipage)	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬	●	●	▬
XHTML	●	●	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	●
XLS / XLSX	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
XML	●	●	▬	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
XPS	●	●	▬	●	●	▬	▬	●	●	▬

Supported Data Sources

	combit	combit	DevExpress	Fast Reports	GrapeCity	Microsoft	SAP	Stimulsoft	Telerik	TIBCO Jaspersoft
	List & Label (26)	List & Label (27)	Universal (21.1)	FastReport.Net (2021.4)	ActiveReports (15)	SSRS (2019)	Crystal Reports 2020 (14.3.x)	Ultimate (2021.4)	Telerik Reporting (R3 2021)	Jaspersoft Studio (6.17)
ADO	●	●	▬	▬	●	▬	●	▬	▬	▬
ADO.NET	●	●	●	●	●	▬	●	●	●	▬
Cassandra	●	●	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	●
Control binding to data sets	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
CouchDB	●	●	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	●	●
CSV	●	●	▬	▬	▬	▬	●	●	●	●
DB2	●	●	●	▬²	▬	▬	▬	●	●	▬
Enumerable interface .NET object support	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬
Excel	●	●	▬	▬	▬	▬	●	▬	▬	●
Firebird	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Google Analytics	●	●	▬	▬	▬	▬²	▬	▬	▬	▬²
Google BigQuery	●	●	▬	●	●	▬	●	▬	▬	●
GoogleSheets	●	●	●	▬	▬	●	▬	●	●	●
GraphQL	●	●	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬
IDataProvider (custom data source)	●	●	●	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	●	▬
In-Memory	●	●	●	▬	▬	●	▬	●	▬	●
JDBC	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	●	▬	▬	●
JSON	●	●	●	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	●	●
LINQ	●	●	●	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬
MariaDB	●	●	●	▬	▬	●	▬	●	●	●
MongoDB	●	●	●	●	▬	▬	▬	●	●	●
MS SQL Server	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬
Multiple DataSource reports	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
MySQL	●	●	●	▬²	▬	▬	▬	●	●	▬
NoSQL	●	●	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	●	●
NuoDB	●	●	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬
OData	●	●	●	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬
ODBC	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬
OleDB	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬
OpenEdge	●	●	●	▬	▬	▬	▬ up to V.10	▬	●	●
Oracle	●	●	●	▬²	●	●	●	●	●	▬
PostgreSQL	●	●	●	▬²	▬	▬	▬	●	●	●
Redis	●	●	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬
REST	●	●	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬²	▬	●	▬
RSSBus/Cdata	●	●	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬
Salesforce	●	●	▬	▬	▬²	▬	▬	▬	▬	●
SharePoint	●	●	●	▬	▬	●	▬	▬	▬	▬
SQLite	●	●	●	▬²	▬	▬	▬	●	●	▬
Unbound data support	●	●	●	▬	●	●	●	●	●	●
XML	●	●	●	●	●	▬	●	●	●	●

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End User Licensing

	combit	combit	DevExpress	Fast Reports	GrapeCity	Microsoft	SAP	Stimulsoft	Telerik	TIBCO Jaspersoft
	List & Label (26)	List & Label (27)	Universal (21.1)	FastReport.Net (2021.4)	ActiveReports (15)	SSRS (2019)	Crystal Reports 2020 (14.3.x)	Ultimate (2021.4)	Telerik Reporting (R3 2021)	Jaspersoft Studio (6.17)
“Royalty Free” Report Designer Control	●	●	●	●	●	▬	●	●	●	●

Supported Development Environments

	combit	combit	DevExpress	Fast Reports	GrapeCity	Microsoft	SAP	Stimulsoft	Telerik	TIBCO Jaspersoft
	List & Label (26)	List & Label (27)	Universal (21.1)	FastReport.Net (2021.4)	ActiveReports (15)	SSRS (2019)	Crystal Reports 2020 (14.3.x)	Ultimate (2021.4)	Telerik Reporting (R3 2021)	Jaspersoft Studio (6.17)
.NET Framework 4.x	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬
.NET 5	●	●	●	●	●	▬	▬	●	●	▬
.NET 6	▬	●	●	●	▬	▬	▬	●	●	▬
.NET Core 3.1	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬	●	●	▬
COM (ActiveX)	●	●	▬	▬	▬	▬	●	▬	▬	▬
Delphi VCL	●	●	●	●	▬	▬	●	▬	▬	▬
DLL	●	●	●	●	●	▬	●	●	●	▬
JNI (Java)	●	●	▬	▬	▬	▬	●	●	▬	●

Other

	combit	combit	DevExpress	Fast Reports	GrapeCity	Microsoft	SAP	Stimulsoft	Telerik	TIBCO Jaspersoft
	List & Label (26)	List & Label (27)	Universal (21.1)	FastReport.Net (2021.4)	ActiveReports (15)	SSRS (2019)	Crystal Reports 2020 (14.3.x)	Ultimate (2021.4)	Telerik Reporting (R3 2021)	Jaspersoft Studio (6.17)
C# scripting	●	●	●	▬	●	▬	●	●	●	▬
Direct manufacturer support	●	●	▬	●	▬	●	●	▬	●	●
Filter functions on database level	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬
Framework for mobile apps	●	●	●	▬	●	▬	▬	●	●	▬
German manufacturer	●	●	▬	▬	▬	▬	●	▬	▬	▬
High DPI display support	●	●	●	▬	●	●	▬	●	●	●
Interface to third party digital signature solution	●	●	●	▬	●	▬	▬	●	▬	●
More complex control of different printers possible	●	●	▬²	▬	▬²	▬²	▬	▬²	▬²	▬
NuGet	●	●	●	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	●	▬
Object Model (DOM)	●	●	●	▬	●	●	●	●	●	●
Simple redistribution	●	●	●	●	●	▬	●	●	●	●
Styling of UI possible	●	●	●	●	▬	▬	▬	●	●	●
Support for Docker Container	▬	●	●	▬	▬	●	▬	▬	●	●
VBScript scripting	●	●	●	▬	●	●	●	●	●	▬
Windows 11 support	▬	●	●	▬	▬	▬	▬	●	▬	▬
Windows 10 support	●	●	●	▬	●	●	●	●	●	●
Windows 8 support	●	●	●	▬	●	●	●	●	●	●
ZUGFeRD 1.0 / 2.0 / 2.1, XRechnung	●	●	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬

Standalone, fully functional Reporting Application

	combit	combit	DevExpress	Fast Reports	GrapeCity	Microsoft	SAP	Stimulsoft	Telerik	TIBCO Jaspersoft
	List & Label (26)	List & Label (27)	Universal (21.1)	FastReport.Net (2021.4)	ActiveReports (15)	SSRS (2019)	Crystal Reports 2020 (14.3.x)	Ultimate (2021.4)	Telerik Reporting (R3 2021)	Jaspersoft Studio (6.17)
Apps (Windows, Android & iOS)	●	●	▬	▬	●	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬
Report Server	●	●	●	▬	▬	▬	●	●	●	●

1) charts only

2) only programmatically / with scripting

3) not in Designer, but with full demo

4) possible with Rscript

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