The coronavirus pandemic is not ending soon. Maybe by June we'll get a respite, but in the fall, it will hit again, generally sickening everyone to the same degree as this spring. The sick time alone will force us all to continue working from home. This is not ending soon (maybe in 18 months).
In addition, as we all learn to work from home, this will force companies to continue doing so for most who want it. Once everyone figures out how to best work in this setup, many will come to enjoy no commute, working in their bathrobe (you know many are), lunch with the family, etc. It'll be hard to take that away.
To succeed, you need to use software that works well for an all-remote workforce. In the case of document automation (and document generation), this means a tool where the document owner can design the template by themselves. Requiring in addition a template designer, a programmer, and then the DevOps people pushing up new code—that's horribly inefficient when everyone is remote and all are on different schedules (if not different hours, different focuses at times in the day).
This does not mean the document owner must design their templates, but it does mean a single individual can do the entire design which eliminates the delays from dependencies on others.
Windward delivers the solution you need. It is the only document automation that has no code behind and no field mapping so a business user can create or revise a template with no help from others.
In addition, the Windward Designer (running on top of Microsoft Office) provides a system with very few limitations. If you can imagine it in Office, you can implement it with Windward. Not just layout & formatting, but complex interrelated queries against multiple datasources. The documents you could never get before—now they're easy.
Finally, using the designer is fast. Our customers generally tell us they design templates in 1/10th the time it used to take. This doesn't return you to pre-pandemic productivity; it's a 10x increase of that productivity.
Don't replace your existing system with Windward. Drop Windward in side by side and use it for all new templates, any templates needing major revision, and any templates that you can now get what you want.
Side by side can often be implemented in a day. Almost always within a week. And then you have a vastly superior solution that requires a lot less time. After all, document automation should be pleasant and fast.
The coronavirus pandemic is not ending soon. Maybe by June we'll get a respite, but in the fall, it will hit again, generally sickening everyone to the same degree as this spring. The sick time alone will force us all to continue working from home. This is not ending soon (maybe in 18 months).
In addition, as we all learn to work from home, this will force companies to continue doing so for most who want it. Once everyone figures out how to best work in this setup, many will come to enjoy no commute, working in their bathrobe (you know many are), lunch with the family, etc. It'll be hard to take that away.
To succeed, you need to use software that works well for an all-remote workforce. In the case of document automation (and document generation), this means a tool where the document owner can design the template by themselves. Requiring in addition a template designer, a programmer, and then the DevOps people pushing up new code—that's horribly inefficient when everyone is remote and all are on different schedules (if not different hours, different focuses at times in the day).
This does not mean the document owner must design their templates, but it does mean a single individual can do the entire design which eliminates the delays from dependencies on others.
Windward delivers the solution you need. It is the only document automation that has no code behind and no field mapping so a business user can create or revise a template with no help from others.
In addition, the Windward Designer (running on top of Microsoft Office) provides a system with very few limitations. If you can imagine it in Office, you can implement it with Windward. Not just layout & formatting, but complex interrelated queries against multiple datasources. The documents you could never get before—now they're easy.
Finally, using the designer is fast. Our customers generally tell us they design templates in 1/10th the time it used to take. This doesn't return you to pre-pandemic productivity; it's a 10x increase of that productivity.
Don't replace your existing system with Windward. Drop Windward in side by side and use it for all new templates, any templates needing major revision, and any templates that you can now get what you want.
Side by side can often be implemented in a day. Almost always within a week. And then you have a vastly superior solution that requires a lot less time. After all, document automation should be pleasant and fast.
The coronavirus pandemic is not ending soon. Maybe by June we'll get a respite, but in the fall, it will hit again, generally sickening everyone to the same degree as this spring. The sick time alone will force us all to continue working from home. This is not ending soon (maybe in 18 months).
In addition, as we all learn to work from home, this will force companies to continue doing so for most who want it. Once everyone figures out how to best work in this setup, many will come to enjoy no commute, working in their bathrobe (you know many are), lunch with the family, etc. It'll be hard to take that away.
To succeed, you need to use software that works well for an all-remote workforce. In the case of document automation (and document generation), this means a tool where the document owner can design the template by themselves. Requiring in addition a template designer, a programmer, and then the DevOps people pushing up new code—that's horribly inefficient when everyone is remote and all are on different schedules (if not different hours, different focuses at times in the day).
This does not mean the document owner must design their templates, but it does mean a single individual can do the entire design which eliminates the delays from dependencies on others.
Windward delivers the solution you need. It is the only document automation that has no code behind and no field mapping so a business user can create or revise a template with no help from others.
In addition, the Windward Designer (running on top of Microsoft Office) provides a system with very few limitations. If you can imagine it in Office, you can implement it with Windward. Not just layout & formatting, but complex interrelated queries against multiple datasources. The documents you could never get before—now they're easy.
Finally, using the designer is fast. Our customers generally tell us they design templates in 1/10th the time it used to take. This doesn't return you to pre-pandemic productivity; it's a 10x increase of that productivity.
Don't replace your existing system with Windward. Drop Windward in side by side and use it for all new templates, any templates needing major revision, and any templates that you can now get what you want.
Side by side can often be implemented in a day. Almost always within a week. And then you have a vastly superior solution that requires a lot less time. After all, document automation should be pleasant and fast.
