TestStand™ is a solution by National Instruments for Report Generation in Test Stand applications.

While it will certainly get the job done, it is a great example of what we see across industry, solutions developed to solve individual problems, that are just good enough to get the job done. But customers are demanding more today:

  • Customers want a reporting solution that is able to adapt to all their reporting needs and not just address one of them.
  • Customers want ease of use for cost effectiveness.  The time of calling IT or product experts for reporting is over.
  • Customers want to integrate data from multiple sources – Data from a test stand, customer information from the CRM or corporate database, and LIMS, etc.
  • Customers want reports in more than one format – Printed for in-shipment delivery, PDF for long term archiving, Web Portal for visibility and regeneration anywhere and at any time.

Dream Report delivers on all fronts

Dream Report is a great alternative to NI TestStand.  It starts by offering over 65 connectors to industry data sources.  These include specialized connectors to proprietary interfaces, automation industry standards such as Modbus, BACnet, and OPC, and business level connectors such as ODBC, OLE-DB, CSV or Excel Files. Dream Report includes a wide range of reporting functionality, with the ability to beautifully display data in the form of values, tables, charts, pie charts, bar charts and specialized wizards.  See our Report Gallery for a few examples. Dream Report will deliver information in all required formats.

National Instruments Connectivity

Connectivity with National Instruments product will vary.  Dream Report offers OPC DA, OPC AE, and OPC HDA.  OPC would likely be the ideal connector to most National Instruments products.  However, many national Instruments products can store data in an Access database file, a SQL Database, or simple CSV or Excel files.  Dream Report offers connectivity through all these mechanisms.   Read more about National Instruments TestStand. More about National Instruments products, that Dream Report can add value to: