ActiveReports vs Logi Composer

ActiveReports is a developer reporting solution for.NET and JavaScript, with report designers, viewers and controls for building reporting into applications. ActiveReports.NET targets web and desktop applications and provides design options in Visual Studio, for web and desktop end users, and as a standalone tool. Supported layouts include continuous-page, fixed-page, dashboard and banded-list reports. Web integrations include ASP.NET MVC, Blazor, Razor Pages, React, Angular and Vue; desktop options include WinForms and WPF. ActiveReportsJS supports Angular, React, Svelte, Vue, Nuxt, Vite and Next.js. Its designer and viewer can be embedded in client-side applications without server-side dependencies and connected to APIs or databases through JavaScript. ActiveReports.NET Standard lists more than a dozen export formats, including PDF, Excel, Word and HTML. Linux deployment is described with rendering, printing and exporting. Standard-use components process application-supplied data within the customer’s environment after integration and deployment, while customers manage security in their final application and deployment environment. The listed starting price is $899 per year, and a 30-day trial is available.

Logi Composer is a low-code analytics product for software teams embedding dashboards and data visualizations in their applications. Teams can brand analytics with white-label options and custom themes, configure dashboard interactions, and let end users create analytic content or run ad hoc analysis within the application. Embedding options include iFrameless, JavaScript libraries, and REST APIs. Composer offers more than 50 Smart Data Connectors for sources spanning streaming, search, document, cloud warehouse, Hadoop, NoSQL, and SQL data. Users can enrich data with custom metrics, filters, sorting, columns, and labels. Its container-ready microservices architecture can scale up or down while using existing data infrastructure and security frameworks. Listed authentication protocols include LDAP, Kerberos (SPNEGO), OAuth2, X509, and SAML2. Application and data access controls, authorization groups, and activity auditing are also supported. Composer is listed for API, Linux, macOS, self-hosted, web, and Windows environments. Pricing is available on request.