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More than 160 Features

Our list shows more than 160 features which are supported by the most popular reporting tools.

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Report Design Features

	ActiveReports (12)	combit List & Label (23)	combit List & Label (24)	combit List & Label (25)	Crystal Reports (2016)	DevExpress Universal (19.1.5)	FastReport.Net (2019.3.24)	Izenda Reports (2018)	Jaspersoft Studio (6.9.0)	MS Reporting Services (2017)	Stimulsoft Reports.Ultimate (2019.1)	Telerik Reporting (13.2.19.918)
Number of supported features	90	142	143	146	93	105	89	67	76	88	116	115
Aggregate with previous values	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬	●	●	●	●
Collapsible regions	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬	▬	●	●	●
Collection variables	▬	●	●	●	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	●	▬	▬
Crystal Reports compatible	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬	▬	▬	●	●
Custom scripts per item and event	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	●	●	▬	▬	▬	●	●
Design schemes	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬	●	●	●	●
Design schemes per item	▬¹	▬¹	▬¹	▬¹	▬¹	●	▬¹	●	▬¹	▬	●	▬¹
Design wizard	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Hyperlink embedding	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Interactive sorting	▬	●	●	●	●	▬²	▬²	●	●	●	●	▬²
Label support	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬	▬	●	●	●
Label templates	●	●	●	●	●	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	●	●
Localization / Internationalization	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬³	●	●	●
Multilanguage (language quantity)	▬²	● (12)	● (12)	● (12)	● (24)	▬²	● (28)	▬	● (2)	● (11)	● (30)	▬²
Native barcode support (quantity)	● (41)	● (58)	● (58)	● (58)	● (2)	● (27)	● (24)	▬	● (41)	▬	● (39)	● (26)
Report parameter	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬	●	●	●	●
Ribbon-UI	▬	●	●	●	▬	●	▬	▬	▬	●	●	●
Side-by-side reports	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Spell checker	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	●	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬²
True layout for the reports	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬	●	●	●	●
Unicode, internationalization support	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
End User designer	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬	●	●
User-defined Functions	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬	●	●	●	●
User-defined Objects	▬	●	●	●	▬	●	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	●
Webdesigner	▬	●	●	●	▬	▬	●	●	▬	▬	●	●
Restore last step	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬	●	●	●	●
Format Painter	▬	●	●	●	●	▬	●	▬	▬	▬	●	▬
Native aggregate functions	●	●	●	●	▬	▬	●	▬	▬	●	▬	▬
Conditional formatting	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Nested tables	▬	●	●	●	▬	●	▬	●	▬	▬	▬	●
WYSIWYG full page design	▬	●	●	●	▬	▬	▬	●	▬	▬	●	●
Drilldown	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●

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.

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Viewer Features

	ActiveReports (12)	combit List & Label (23)	combit List & Label (24)	combit List & Label (25)	Crystal Reports (2016)	DevExpress Universal (19.1.5)	FastReport.Net (2019.3.24)	Izenda Reports (2018)	Jaspersoft Studio (6.9.0)	MS Reporting Services (2017)	Stimulsoft Reports.Ultimate (2019.1)	Telerik Reporting (13.2.19.918)
Collapsible regions	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬	●	●	●
Interactive sorting	▬	●	●	●	●	▬²	▬²	●	●	●	●	●
Collapsible regions (Web)	▬	●	●	●	▬	●	▬	●	▬	●	▬	●
Interactive sorting (Web)	▬	●	●	●	▬	▬	▬	●	●	●	●	●
Multilanguage (language quantity)	▬	● (12)	● (12)	● (12)	● (9)	▬²	● (28)	▬	▬²	● (11)	● (28)	▬²
Report parameter	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬	●	●	●	●
Report parameter with drilldown	▬	●	●	●	▬	▬	▬	▬	●	●	●	●
Report parameter with drilldown (Web)	●	▬	●	●	▬	▬	▬	●	●	●	▬	●
Side-by-side Reports	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Ribbon-UI	▬	●	●	●	▬	●	●	▬	▬	▬	▬	●
Subreports	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬	●	●	●	●
Viewer-Technology – AJAX	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬	●	●	●
Viewer-Technology – Flash	●	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	●	▬
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.

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Report Features

	ActiveReports (12)	combit List & Label (23)	combit List & Label (24)	combit List & Label (25)	Crystal Reports (2016)	DevExpress Universal (19.1.5)	FastReport.Net (2019.3.24)	Izenda Reports (2018)	Jaspersoft Studio (6.9.0)	MS Reporting Services (2017)	Stimulsoft Reports.Ultimate (2019.1)	Telerik Reporting (13.2.19.918)
Automatically generated table of contents	▬	●	●	●	▬²	▬²	▬	▬	▬²	▬	▬²	●
Automatically generated index	▬	●	●	●	▬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 – Circle / Ring	▬	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Chart type – Funnel	▬	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬	●	●	▬
Chart type – Lines / Symbols	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Chart type – Maps / Shapefiles	▬	●	●	●	●	▬³	●	●	▬	●	▬	●
Chart type – Radar	▬	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬	●	●	●	●
Chart type – Range	●	▬	▬	▬	▬	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Chart type – Rscript	▬	▬	●	●	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬
Chart type – Treemap	▬	●	●	●	▬	▬	▬	●	●	●	▬	●
Chart type – Waterfall	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	●	▬	●	●	▬²	▬	●
Chart type – Candlestick	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	●	▬	▬	●	●	●	●
OLE Container	●	●	●	●	●	▬²	▬²	▬	▬	▬	▬	●
OLE Container 64 Bit	▬	●	●	●	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	●	●	▬
Cross-tab	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Data Graphics	▬	●	●	●	▬	▬³	▬	●	▬	●	▬	▬³
Gantt	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬	●	▬	●	●
Gauges / Dashboard-Controls	●	●	●	●	●	▬³	●	●	●	●	▬	▬³
PDF Object	▬	●	●	●	▬	▬³	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬³
SVG Object	▬	▬	●	●	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬
Print / Preview	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬	●	●	●
Report caching	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬	●	●	●	●
Web report caching	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬	●	●	●

Export Features

	ActiveReports (12)	combit List & Label (23)	combit List & Label (24)	combit List & Label (25)	Crystal Reports (2016)	DevExpress Universal (19.1.5)	FastReport.Net (2019.3.24)	Izenda Reports (2018)	Jaspersoft Studio (6.9.0)	MS Reporting Services (2017)	Stimulsoft Reports.Ultimate (2019.1)	Telerik Reporting (13.2.19.918)
BMP	●	●	●	●	▬	●	●	▬	▬	●	●	●
CSV	▬	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
DOC / DOCX	●	●	●	●	●	▬	●	●	●	●	●	●
Email (Extended MAPI)	▬	●	●	●	▬	▬	▬	●	▬	▬	▬	▬
Email (Simple MAPI)	▬	●	●	●	●	▬	▬²	●	▬	▬	▬²	▬
Email (SMTP)	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬	●	●	▬
EMF	●	●	●	●	▬	●	●	▬	▬	●	●	●
Cloud	▬	●	●	●	▬	▬	●	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬
GIF	●	▬	▬	▬	▬	●	●	▬	▬	●	●	●
HTML	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
HTML5	▬	●	●	●	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	●	●
JPEG	●	●	●	●	▬	●	●	▬	▬	●	●	●
JSON	●	▬	▬	●	▬	▬	●	●	●	▬	▬	▬
ODS	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	●	●	●	▬	●	▬
ODT	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	●	●	●	▬	●	▬
PDF	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
PDF/A	●	●	●	●	▬	▬	●	▬	●	▬	●	●
PNG	●	●	●	●	▬	●	●	▬	●	●	●	●
PPT / PPTX	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬	●	●	●	●	●
RTF	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬	●	●
SharePoint	▬	●	●	●	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	●	▬	▬
SVG	▬	●	●	●	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	●	▬
Text	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬	●	●	●	▬
TIFF	●	●	●	●	▬	●	●	▬	▬	●	●	●
TIFF (Multipage)	●	●	●	●	▬	●	●	▬	▬	●	●	●
XHTML	▬	●	●	●	▬	▬	▬	▬	●	▬	▬	▬
XLS / XLSX	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
XML / XAML	●	●	●	●	●	▬	●	●	●	●	●	●
XPS	●	●	●	●	▬	▬	●	▬	▬	▬	●	●

Supported Data Sources

	ActiveReports (12)	combit List & Label (23)	combit List & Label (24)	combit List & Label (25)	Crystal Reports (2016)	DevExpress Universal (19.1.5)	FastReport.Net (2019.3.24)	Izenda Reports (2018)	Jaspersoft Studio (6.9.0)	MS Reporting Services (2017)	Stimulsoft Reports.Ultimate (2019.1)	Telerik Reporting (13.2.19.918)
ADO	●	●	●	●	●	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬
ADO.NET	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬	▬	▬	●	●
Cassandra	▬	●	●	●	▬	▬	▬	▬	●	▬	▬	▬
Control binding to data sets	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬	●	●	●	●
CSV	▬	●	●	●	●	▬	▬	▬	●	▬	●	●
DB2	▬	●	●	●	▬	●	▬²	●	▬	▬	●	●
Enumerable interface .NET object support	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬	▬	●	●	●
Excel	▬	●	●	●	●	▬	▬	▬	●	▬	▬	▬
JSON	▬	●	●	●	▬	●	▬	▬	●	▬	▬	●
LINQ	▬	●	●	●	▬	●	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬
MS SQL Server	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬	●	●	●
Multiple DataSource reports	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬	●	●	●	●
MySQL	▬	●	●	●	▬	●	▬²	●	▬	▬	●	●
In-Memory	▬	●	●	●	▬	●	▬	●	●	●	●	▬
NoSQL	▬	●	●	●	▬	▬	▬	●	●	▬	▬	●
NuoDB	▬	●	●	●	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬
JDBC	▬	▬	▬	▬	●	▬	▬	▬	●	▬	▬	▬
Google Analytics	▬	●	●	●	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬²	▬²	▬	▬
Google BigQuery	●	●	●	●	●	▬	●	▬	●	▬	▬	▬
GraphQL	▬	▬	▬	●	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬
OData	▬	●	●	●	▬	●	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬
ODBC	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬	●	●	●
OleDB	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬	▬	●	●	●
Oracle	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬²	●	▬	●	●	●
PostgreSQL	▬	●	●	●	▬	●	▬²	●	●	▬	●	●
REST	▬	●	●	●	▬²	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	●
SharePoint	▬	●	●	●	▬	●	▬	▬	▬	●	▬	▬
SQLite	▬	●	●	●	▬	●	▬²	●	▬	▬	●	●
Unbound data support	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬	▬	●	●	●	●
XML	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬	●	▬	●	●

End User Licensing

	ActiveReports (12)	combit List & Label (23)	combit List & Label (24)	combit List & Label (25)	Crystal Reports (2016)	DevExpress Universal (19.1.5)	FastReport.Net (2019.3.24)	Izenda Reports (2018)	Jaspersoft Studio (6.9.0)	MS Reporting Services (2017)	Stimulsoft Reports.Ultimate (2019.1)	Telerik Reporting (13.2.19.918)
“Royalty Free” Report Designer Control	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬	●	●

Supported Development Environments

	ActiveReports (12)	combit List & Label (23)	combit List & Label (24)	combit List & Label (25)	Crystal Reports (2016)	DevExpress Universal (19.1.5)	FastReport.Net (2019.3.24)	Izenda Reports (2018)	Jaspersoft Studio (6.9.0)	MS Reporting Services (2017)	Stimulsoft Reports.Ultimate (2019.1)	Telerik Reporting (13.2.19.918)
.NET	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬	●	●	●
.NET Core 3.0	▬	▬	▬	●	▬	●	●	▬	▬	●	●	●
COM (ActiveX)	▬	●	●	●	●	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬
Delphi VCL	▬	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬
DLL	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬	▬	▬	●	●
JNI (Java)	▬	●	●	●	●	▬	▬	▬	●	▬	●	▬

Other

	ActiveReports (12)	combit List & Label (23)	combit List & Label (24)	combit List & Label (25)	Crystal Reports (2016)	DevExpress Universal (19.1.5)	FastReport.Net (2019.3.24)	Izenda Reports (2018)	Jaspersoft Studio (6.9.0)	MS Reporting Services (2017)	Stimulsoft Reports.Ultimate (2019.1)	Telerik Reporting (13.2.19.918)
64 Bit	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Framework for mobile apps	●	▬	●	●	▬	●	▬	▬	▬	▬	●	●
German manufacturer	▬	●	●	●	●	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬
Direct manufacturer support	▬	●	●	●	●	▬	●	▬	●	●	▬	●
High DPI display support	●	●	●	●	▬	●	▬	▬	●	●	●	●
Interface to third party digital signature solution	●	●	●	●	▬	●	▬	▬	●	▬	●	▬
More complex control of different printers possible	▬²	●	●	●	▬	▬²	▬	▬	▬	▬²	▬²	▬²
Styling of UI possible	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	●	●	▬	●	▬	●	●
NuGet	▬	●	●	●	▬	●	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	●
Object Model (DOM)	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬	▬	●	●	●	●
Simple redistribution	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬	●	●
Filter functions on database level	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬	●	●	●
VBScript scripting	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬	▬	▬	●	●	●
C# scripting	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬	▬	▬	▬	●	●
Windows 10 support	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬	●	●	●	●	●
Windows 8 support	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬	●	●	●	●	●
ZUGFeRD support	●	●	●	●	▬	●	●	▬	▬	▬	●	▬

1) charts only
2) only programmatically / with scripting
3) not in Designer, but with full demo

Disclaimer
Due to short release cycles, individual points may change extremely quickly. If you are a manufacturer of one of the products compared and notice any discrepancies, or would like changes to be made, please contact us via email or give us a call at T +49 (0)7531 90 60 10 or toll-free in North America T +1 800 256 3608. (Status as of October 2019)