DevExpress Reports vs Logi Composer

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.

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.