Case Study: U.S. State Alcohol Regulatory Agency achieves 90% reduction in reporting development time with Windward Studios

How Windward Studios Saved a Goverment Agency 90%

A large state alcohol control agency (est. 1934) with more than 280 locations and 3,000 employees faced a complex reporting challenge: dozens of departments (HR, Enforcement, Records, Retail, Warehousing, etc.) needed different report content and formats (PDF, HTML, RTF, landscape pages), reports had to be available to 130+ remote users without client installs, and developers were spending excessive time and budget on custom reports while procurement required low-cost solutions.

The agency implemented Windward, which lets users design templates in Microsoft Office and connects to any data source; integration took under 48 hours and initial reports were produced in less than a week. Windward eliminated multi-step development, let business users edit and run reports, delivered multiple output formats (including landscape PDFs) without extra coding, and cut reporting development time to about one‑tenth of what it was—while costing roughly one‑tenth of competing products and removing the need to buy proprietary PDF software.