DevExpress Reports vs ezzyScorecard

DevExpress Reports is an embedded reporting platform for developers creating reports in.NET applications. It supports report creation, editing, conversion, printing, and export. Designers integrate with Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, and JetBrains Rider, and applications can include an end-user designer for report creation and editing at runtime. Built-in elements include charts, cross tabs, gauges, barcodes, rich text, tables, images, and pivot grids.

Data sources include SQL databases, Excel and CSV, MongoDB, JSON, XML, Entity Framework, XPO, and standard.NET data providers. Supported integrations cover WinForms, WPF, ASP.NET Web Forms, MVC and Core, Blazor, Angular, React, Vue, and.NET MAUI. Export formats include PDF, DOCX, RTF, XLS, XLSX, TXT, MHT, CSV, HTML, and image formats such as SVG. It supports Windows, Linux, and macOS environments, with Docker, Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud Platform among hosting options. The Reporting Subscription costs $799.99 a year per developer for 12 months and includes product updates and technical support. There is no free plan, but a fully functional 30-day trial is available.

ezzyScorecard is a web-based cloud tool for implementing and monitoring a business or nonprofit organisation’s Balanced Scorecard. Users can rename or add perspectives, set weightings and define objectives; linked objectives update a strategy map. The product displays perspectives, objectives and metrics in a color-coded scorecard, alongside a pictorial map of objective relationships. Its Workbench supports alternate dashboard reports, metric comments, red flags, trend analysis, multigraphs, saved report templates and downloadable presentations. Initiatives can be prioritized, assigned timelines and strategic alignment, and connected to perspectives, objectives, metrics and accountability. Users can drill into metrics and examine trends at process and actual levels. Each business is limited to 8 perspectives, 4 objectives per perspective and 6 metrics per objective. Plans allow unlimited user access. Business costs A$75 a month for 3 businesses, Corporate A$120 a month for 6, and Consultant A$150 a month for 10 businesses per pack. A 30-day trial is listed, as is a free six-month Professor subscription for students. The maker says the product focuses on implementation and control, not strategy development or interpreting outcomes and developing corrective action.