Why Your Peers, and Competitors, are Using Spread

We recently surveyed our registered users of both Spread for ASP.NET (Web Forms) and Spread Windows Forms and asked them several questions, including the following:

  Why did you buy Spread? What were the deciding factors/features for purchasing:

Following are some of their responses (listed in random order). While we planned on using them for internal review only, they were so good we thought we would share them with you. Click the Read More link to view many more comments. Thanks to all who participated in the survey!

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	"A vendor had begun initial development using the tool, and as we have now taken over development of the application, we have purchased our own license. We did do a short review of spreadsheet tools, but found yours provides us the flexibility for the in-house application/tools that we are developing. The built-in formulas make use of the spreadsheet a lot easier for many of our users."
	"We had a specific requirement from our customers to provide spreadsheet-like functionality and after trying some other products and seeing an in-person demo here, we determined that this was the correct product for us. Other factors were the ability to create custom fields and complex functions within the control."
	"Initially, we purchased FarPoint Spread when we were automating spreadsheets that were being manually produced by our Accounting Department. FarPoint Spread allowed us to easily produce a finished product with the same look and feel as existing reports. Since our initial successes we've had abundant requests from other departments."
	"In 1999 a friend of mine recommended me to use FarPoint Spread spreadsheet control, which I did. I was very pleased with the result and how easy it was to work with. I've been using the product since then. For me it's just a natural choice."
	"I have used your product (FarPoint Spread) since VB 3,4,5,6 - long ago, so it was a natural progression. Second, I worked with other spreadsheets, Infragistics, SyncFusion, and Microsofts Grid in ASP pages and there were performance issues, especially for more sophisticate tasks."
	"We used it for the last 10 years. It was one of the first spreadsheet components and still one of the best."
	"We bought FarPoint Spread for use in our evaluation of grid products for use in a project. The deciding factors were the wealth of features that FarPoint Spread offered over the compitition, for example the zooming feature."
	"To get a full featured grid with spreadsheet-like characteristics. The main factor was the positive review your products received over your competitors."
	"Reputable, reliable, feature rich product/brand. Gave me the ability to reduce my development time. Excellent visual interface - my customers love the end product. Easy to use and work with."
	"I'm a Microsoft MVP so there isn't much I can't make the .NET DataGridView do, but I ran into a large project where the grid needed to have many Excel-like features as well as support multi-column filters, hierarchical display, and support large sets of data with better performance than DataGridView. So the net effect is writing less code and better performance. After evaluating FarPoint Spread, I was able to do some very complex things within a few days of prototyping and became convinced that it would be well worth the investment. Now that the application I am using FarPoint Spread for has flown through alpha testing, I am convinced I made the right choice."

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