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Strategic Adviser
A sought-after conference luminary, Shirley guided Windward as President/CEO between 2009 & 2014. Currently serving as a Strategic Advisor to the company, her career spans more than 25 years of leadership in the software industry, including enterprise solutions, document management, legal, mortgage processing, entertainment and educational software. Still on her bucket list: winning the Windward Chili Cookoff contest.
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Windward: Just the Facts
Ten things you might not know about Windward.
1. Windward was named for founder Dave Thielen’s childhood home on the windward side of Oahu, Hawaii.
2. The company is headquartered in beautiful Boulder, Colorado.
3. Windward is Windward Studios, which began as a game development studio that produced the popular and highly-rated RTS game Enemy Nations.
4. We sponsor the annual Code Wars.
5. Windward helps companies of all sizes, from small businesses to the Fortune 100 to government agencies.
7. Windward’s customers span 70 countries and 6 continents.
8. We’re the makers of Dash, the iPad Google Analytics tool.
9. Customers’ applications include financial statements, inventory reports, product-usage reports, purchase orders, invoices, training certificates, timesheets, and licenses.
10. Windward commissioned one of the earliest “truly viral” online videos.
What do you want in your reporting software or document generation system? You want the process to be so smooth and simple it’s invisible. You want the template design to be a quick and effortless transition from the end user’s desires to the created template. You want the generated reports & documents to be stunning and informative.
Windward delivers this revolutionary advance built around a very simple concept. Design your templates in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
The Windward product suite helps you embed advanced reporting tools and document generation software into your new or existing software application. The Windward Java and .NET report engines integrate quickly and cleanly into your codebase.
Non-developer employees and end users apply the Windward AutoTag report design tool to create report templates in Microsoft Office®, a tool they already know. Users can then run and distribute those reports when and where they want, in widely used and widely accepted reporting formats.see less
Specialties
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Reporting Software, Document Generation, Report Template Design, Report Writing, Reporting Tools, End user Template Design, Business Reports, Excel Reporting, Reporting Components
The Windward Story
Reporting and document generation should be simple, but for some reason the solutions most companies are forced to rely on make it overly complex, tedious and technical. Why can’t generating reports and documents from all your company’s data sources be as simple as creating a Microsoft Word document or Excel spreadsheet?
Our founder, Dave Thielen, asked himself that very question more than a decade ago after his then-boss handed him report mockups and asked him turn them into real reports with live data. Dave’s solution was to create software that provides a unique experience using Microsoft Office programs to format and edit report templates.
Behind the scenes, Windward’s sophisticated engine pulls data from multiple sources and merges that data into your reports and documents. We deliver a solution that allows IT professionals to create basic templates and business users to customize those templates and create variations to meet their reporting needs. It’s a fast and hassle-free experience that can actually make generating reports fun.
Our Core Values at Windward
The level of enjoyment our customers have when our software is reflected in our company culture as well: we love what we do and focus entirely on reporting and docgen.
At Windward, we succeed because we embrace these guiding values:
1. Create a Team of “A” Players
· Entrepreneurial
· Freedom & flexibility to get the job done
· Consistently high performance
2. Do Our Damnedest to Delight the Customer – From Product to Sales to Support
3. Be the Company Your Friends Wish They Worked For
4. Do What’s Right
· Stand behind our commitments
· Actions speak loudest
5. Embrace and Drive Change
· Challenge assumptions
· Put forth alternatives
6. Communicate with Intention
· Listen 1st. Think 2nd. Speak 3rd.
· Forthright & respectful
· Brevity – Enough said
Executive Team
David Thielen
President/CEO
303-499-2544 x1185
Blog: Dave's Blog
If you’re really interested in the compulsory list of impressive-sounding titles Dave has held, check out Dave’s LinkedIn profile. What the profile doesn’t tell you is Dave once created a game so compelling (Enemy Nations) that a now-professional World of Warcraft player lost his job because he played it incessantly on company time. Learn more about Dave from his online profile.
Lawrence (Larry) Goldman
Director of Marketing
303-499-2544 x1184
A B2B marketing leader with more than 18 years of professional experience in technology, SaaS and services, Larry drives market awareness and qualified sales leads through a rare combination of technical savvy, customer focus and persuasive communication.
Troy Williams
Director of Sales
303-499-2544 x1178
Troy is a sales leader who has trained teams to generate top revenues in company history. He has led sales representatives in consultative methods, relationship management, and solution-selling techniques while creating exceptional, over-quota results across education products, software, technology services, communications, and oil and gas industries.
