In other cases a user simply dragged and dropped the file on Compare Suite’s form. In some cases it was extracted from a company’s Document Management System, and the name was pasted as a parameter to Compare Suite (we call it integration with DMS). Normally, there is a long story behind any document. What we had to have in mind when developing Compare Suite is that the document doesn’t end its life on a user’s desktop.
In a number of forums Compare Suite is mentioned as a best choice for comparison of Excel files. If the program finds different dates, it won’t just report the difference, but it will calculate what the difference is in days or months. Compare Suite works smarter, it will tell users what the difference is between two numbers and will calculate this difference in percentages. For example, as mentioned comparison of Excel spreadsheets is not just text comparison. Comparison of Excel Spreadsheetsįor sure, there are some functions that make the difference.
Some like Compare Suite for the reporting while others find its interface plain and easy to understand. It is hard to say now who is the user of Compare Suite.Īccording to our case studies people use this tool for different tasks: regular analysis of reports, comparison of contract drafts, finding the difference between two spreadsheets, comparing PDFs and much more.
These are the professionals who don’t know much about using command line, running Linux or writing console applications.ĭid we achieve our goal? Yes! More over, even the above mentioned software engineers sometimes forgot about their Unix toys and invested in Compare Suite PRO. Instead Compare Suite was developed for office professionals. From the very beginning it was not designed as another tool for software engineers. The Compare Suite project was started back in 2003.