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Reporting Tool for Software Developers

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Selected Customer Quotes

                                                                    „For the creation of forms, lists and reports List &    „Whenever it comes to printouts in any form,
                                                                    Label offers exactly the functionality we want for      List & Label has been our first choice for many
                                                                    such a tool. Whether clearly structured, content-ori-   years now. We know it as a reliable, simple and
                                                                    ented documents or complex reports, List & Label        very versatile tool. And, with combit, we have an
                                                                    can be used to realize the diverse requirements of      unprecedentedly fast and competent contact in all
                                                                    our customers optimally and with little effort.”        questions. Thank you very much for that!”

                                                                                       Marc Deller,                                            Sebastian Czymaj,
                                                                                       proALPHA Business                                       GL Maritime Software
                                                                                       Solutions

    List & Label is a reporting component for develo-
    pers. It is used worldwide successfully for decades             „It was extremely easy to implement List & Label        „We don’t want to be without List & Label anymore.
                                                                    into our software, and the Designer is a joy to use.”   It is very powerful, flexible and easy to use.”
    by thousands of development teams. There are
                                                                                         Karsten Lundsgaard,                                    Klaus Mueller,
    many benefits for you and your customers:
                                                                                         Kamstrup                                               Lear Corporation

      Report Designer in the Microsoft Office look & feel
      can be redistributed with no extra cost
                                                                    „List & Label is easy to program and provides           „combit provides terrific support! Our suggestion
      Can be used quick and effortless in most development         all the functions you could ever want. We are           for a new feature was immediately included and
      environments and programming languages                        thrilled to have found a reporting tool that            implemented in the current version. Once again,
                                                                    exceeds our expectations!”                              we are completely wowed by List & Label!”
      Report Server enables platform-independent, server-based
      reporting without developing an application from scratch                           Bernd Bierhoff,                                          Max Gest,
                                                                                         Bizerba                                                  Swiss Life
      Fast performance, scalability and always up to date

      Professional reports, documents and interactive dashboards
                                                                                                                            more List & Label customers: www.combit.com/LL-clients
      For desktop, web and cloud

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Report Designer                                               4 Extensible
    Microsoft Office look & feel
                                                                 Add your own objects, functions and
                                                                 properties to the ribbon to give your
                                                     4           users the right options at the right
                                                                 time. That makes the design process
                                                                 quick, easy and convenient.

                                                         5

     1    Overview
                                                                  5    Barcodes Included
    The object list is the “script” for
    your report. The order in which the                          About 60 barcode types are included
    elements appear can be changed by        1                   free of charge, and no special barcode
    simply clicking. The elements can also                       fonts are needed.
    be flexibly reused as sub-reports in
    other projects.

                                                             6    6 Start Immediately

     2    Dynamic Properties                                     Available variables and fields are dis-
                                                                 played at all times, making it simple even
    All of the properties can be set by                          for beginners to create reports. You and
    means of a formula depending on the                          your customers benefit from convenient
    data. For example, utilized language,                        drag-and-drop design capabilities.
    position or formatting can be dynami-
    cally determined.
                                                     3
                                                 2
                                                                  i    No Additional Cost

     3 Quick Testing                                             You are free to distribute the Designer
                                                                 without paying additional fees. Enrich
    In the preview, you generate your                            your application with cutting-edge
    reports with real data. With a single                        reporting capabilities for any type of
    click you can check the layout or view                       output, with minimal coding.
    a fully populated report within the
    Designer ad-hoc while you work.

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Data Visualization
    Actionable insights at a glance

                                                                                                                              2020
                                        Pollen
                                                  January   February   March             April          May          June             July           August     September October November December
                                       Alder
                                       Hazel
                                       Willow
                                       Elm
                                       Poplar
                                       Ash
                                                                                                                      2021                                               2022                  2023
                                       Hornbeam                                                                                                                                                                 Total
                                                                                                 Q-1          Q-2      Q-3       Q-4           Total     Q-1      Q-2    Q-3    Q-4    Total   Total   Units   Revenue     Fraction
                                       Birch
                                       Pine                                 Beverages             ...         270       ...          535       805       328       483   530    428    1769    2152    4726    114889,05   17,09%

                                       Rape                                Condiments             ...         220       ...          282       502       282       428   246    379    1335     951    2788    60629,15     9,02%
                                       Plane
                                                                           Confections            ...         183       ...          316       499       676       352   268    427    1723    1556    3778    83093,37    12,36%
                                       Lime
                                       Nele                              Dairy Products          ...         179       ...          433       612       660       565   580    553    2328    1765    4705    133606,10   19,88%

                                       Dock
                                                                          Grains/Cereals          ...          9        ...          199       208       334       403   181    342    1260     860    2328    52582,00     7,82%
                                       Mugwort
                                                                          Meat/Poultry            ...         111       ...          162       273       428       123   182    181     914     758    1945    90351,81    13,44%

                                                                               Produce            ...          92       ...          120       212        99       267   193    172     731     666    1609    59651,30     8,87%

                                                                               Seafood            ...         171       ...          364       535       422       428   465    484    1799    1709    4043    77373,00    11,51%

                                                                                Total             ...         1235      ...      2411         3646       3229     3019   2645   2966   11859   10417   25922   672175,78   100,0%

                                      List & Label offers a huge array of chart types – from bar and                                         Crosstabs are a powerful tool for analysis of complex, multi-
                                      pie charts to geovisualization with shapefiles. That means your                                        dimensional data. Gantt charts depict time/activity relationships.
                                      users will always find a solution to their specific data-visualization                                 Examples include vacation schedules and machine maintenance
                                      needs. Gauges show actual values in relation to minimum,                                               plans.
                                      maximum and optimum values.

                                                                                                                                                  List & Label lets you create more complex and flexible
                                                                                                                                                  reports than any other reporting tool.

                                                                                                                                                                         Alex Singer,
                                                                                                                                                                         WebDatabases

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Export, Printing & Output
    Diverse formats and options

                                                                 Printing and Output                                                   Interactive Options

    Export                                                       Set up the page layout anyway you like: In the case of multipage      With the help of interactive drilldown functions, your users
                                                                 projects, different layout settings can be selected for each of       can click their way through the links in the preview up to the de-
    Reports can not only be printed and previewed.               the various areas such as printer, page size, orientation and paper   sired level of detail. In the case of large, complex databases, this
    They can also be directly exported in the required format.   tray. Additional flexibility is provided by the combination print.    makes it possible to quickly find any currently required informa-
    As a result, time-consuming conversion is not necessary.     The function allows you to combine different projects into a          tion. Users can also set report parameter values directly into
                                                                 single print-out – for example a combined print-out of an invoice     the preview and change sorting by simply clicking the column
                                                                 and a delivery note. Amongst other things, the multi-pass pro-        headings, as well as expand and collapse entire report regions.
                                                                 cessing for pre-calculations simplifies working with references.      Form controls are used to enter additional data and separate
                                                                 Beyond this, List & Label permits output as multipage and             screen presentations are replaced by the preview with animated
                                                                 poster print-outs, as well as scaling of the print-outs.              objects.

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Report Server                                                                                                                Developing Your Own Web Applications
     Out-of-the-box server-based reporting                                                                                        Web reporting for your products

     The Report Server saves you significant development time.
     It gives you platform-independent server-based reporting and                                                                 The completely browser-based Ad-hoc Designer is intuitive and
     requires very little programming. It includes native apps for        combit Report Server provides professional analyses     offers many more basic capabilities. Very little training is required
     Windows, iOS and Android.                                            reliably and quickly and speeds up our work processes   to design most types of reports. And if your users want a wider
                                                                          no end.                                                 range of features, they can simply switch to the locally installed
          ou can install and start using the Report Server right away;
         Y                                                                                                                        Windows-based Web Designer. Power users looking to create so-
         your application accesses it directly, and adding fully confi-                    Goran Vogt,                            phisticated, special-purpose reports will find everything they need
         gured data sources and reports is simple.                                         Valser Service                         in the Web Designer: It offers virtually the same functional scope
                                                                                                                                  as the desktop version.
         If you purchase the Enterprise edition, you may distribute                                                                                                                                         The HTML5 Viewer
          the Report Server with your List & Label application to your
          customers free of charge.                                                                                                                                                                       The HTML5 Viewer displays reports in a browser. Your users can
                                                                          Test Report Server Online                                     Test Web Reporting Online                                         show or hide tables, sort data according to their needs, apply filters
         You can launch server-based solutions – supporting all          www.combit.com/report-server-online-demo                      www.combit.com/web-reporting-list-label                           via report parameters, and drill down to a greater level of detail.
         leading browsers on any device – much faster.                                                                                                                                                    In other words, the viewer offers them nearly all of the regular
                                                                                                                                                                                                          preview’s features.

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How it Works                                                                                                                              Data Binding
     Deploying List & Label                                                                                                                    Complete flexibility

                           Preview Functions                        Object Model                    Design, Print & Export

                                            VCL Control

               ActiveX Control                                                          .NET Control                  JAVA JNI

                                       DataBinding
                                       VCL Control

                                                                   Application

     Quick and Easy Integration                                                                                                                Straightforward Transfer of Data Structures

     Development component List & Label brings extensive and con-                  List & Label made it possible for me to create a customer   Whether you want to add reporting features to an existing       We offer diverse data providers for all popular data sources.
     venient print, export and preview functionality to your applications.         project without any great effort. Easy implementation       application or create a new one, List & Label lets you access   And you can also create your own providers quickly and easily.
     You are not tied to a particular database format. You specify how             and simple use of the report generator led to the desired   your data structures directly – with cutting-edge .NET data     This allows you to bind List & Label to any data source or to
     your application handles data access and define the interface.                results in just a few hours.                                binding. This is an extremely fast way to enhance your          take into account the rights management of your application,
     Further data can be added at any time.                                                                                                    products with professional-quality reporting.                   for example. Of course, this also works with the Report Server.
                                                                                                                Ingo Gerhold,
                                                                                                                ASTEG

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Document Object Model for Projects                                                                                                   Support for Professionals
     Quick and individual                                                                                                                 Reliable and extended availability

     Tailored Designer and Projects                                                                                                       Long Term Support                                                  Debugging

     You can dynamically generate your own projects, plus project      List & Label is the perfect fit – our users love it and so do we                   The Enterprise edition includes long-term          List & Label includes the professional, functionality-rich
     wizards that offer users preconfigured objects in the designer,   software developers.                                                   LONG        support: we provide support for even-              Debwin tool for debugging.
     or a feature-reduced designer, for their tasks. This helps your                                                                          TERM        numbered versions for approximately two
     customers to work productively from the start and enables                                      Steve Williamsson,                        SUPPORT     years, until a new LTS version (26, 28, 30,        For effective analysis, it is even possible, in .NET, to use your
     you to respond flexibly to user-specific requirements.                                         Foresiight                                            etc.) is released. This extends the availability   application’s logging feature via a special interface. Alterna-
                                                                                                                                                          of comprehensive support for developers            tively, you can use tried and trusted logging frameworks, such
                                                                                                                                                          whose products have longer release cycles.         as NLog or log4net.

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We love List & Label!!! It is     Up to Date                                               Deployment
                            a fantastic tool that lets the    Operating Systems and Technologies                       .NET, C++, Delphi & Co
                            user generate sensational
                            reports.
                                                              List & Label always uses the latest Windows and devel-
                                          Alexander Kollin,   opment technologies. This means your application can
                                          KingBill            maintain its competitive advantage.

                                                                   Visual Studio 2019
                                                                   .NET Framework 4.7 and .NET Core 3.1 / .NET 5
                                                                   Embarcadero RAD Studio 10.4
                                                                   Windows 8.1 - Windows 10,
                                                                   Windows Server 2012 - 2019
                                                                   Windows Azure VM
                                                                   Amazon Web Services
                                                                   NuGet
                                                                   ZUGFeRD 1.0 / 2.0 / 2.1

                                                                                                                       Programming languages and
                                                                                                                       development environments

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                                                                                                                         Alaska Xbase++         Delphi
                                                                                                                        C#/VB.NET & all other    Java
                                                                                                                         .NET languages            PHP
                                                                                                                          C/C++                    Progress
                                                                                                                           Clarion                  Visual Basic
     Try it Out For Free                                                                                                    Cobol                    All languages that
     www.combit.com/trial                                                                                                    DataFlex                  support DLL calls

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Licensing and Support
     Fair terms and conditions                                                                                                                                                                                                                  STANDARD    PROFESSIONAL     ENTERPRISE
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              ENTERPRISE
                                                                                                                                            Designer for developers and end users for most desktop applications (see license agreement)           P              P                P
                                                                                                                                            Wide range of programming languages supported; code examples available                                P              P                P
                                                                                                                                            Print, preview and export in all supported formats                                                    P              P                P
                                                                                                                                            Service packs for one year, access to knowledgebase, manuals, forums and RSS feeds                    P              P                P
                                                                                                                                            Report parameters, e.g. Filter conditions within the preview                                          P(1)           P                P
                                                                                                                                            One-year subscription: support and mainanance including service packs and new main versions                          P                P
                                                                                                                                            2D barcodes: PDF417, Maxicode, DataMatrix/EC200, Aztec, Deutsche Post Premiumadress and QR code                      P                P
                                                                                                                                            DOM: customize/create projects without Designer                                                                      P                P
                                                                                                                                            Individually adaptable SAP Crystal Reports and RDL (e.g. SQL Server Reporting Services) converter                    P                P
                                                                                                                                            Shapefiles for geovisualization and more                                                                             P                P
                                                                                                                                            Support via www.combit.com/support or by phone                                                         €             P                P
                                                                                                                                            Designer and Manuals in English and German
       List & Label may only be deployed as an integral component of a full-fledged software application.                                   (Free choice of one language in Standard Edition, second language fee-based)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   €             P                P
                                                                                                                                            Switch the Designer into multiple languages:
          L ist & Label is available in three editions. Standard enables     Licensing costs are transparent and predictable, and the     Add-on language kits available in Chinese, French, Italian, Japanese, Spanish (more on request)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   €              €               P
          the low-cost entry, without included support and main-               versatility of List & Label ensures a rapid return on your
          tenance contract. The Professional and Enterprise edition            investment.
                                                                                                                                            Suitable for most server/web server applications (see license agreement)                               €              €               P
          are Subscriptions. In both you can use all major versions                                                                         Using within a service as well as under Windows Azure, Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing                                           P
          contained in the runtime in parallel, always have access to         The List & Label Designer enables your end-customers to
          the latest versions and have a support flat rate.                    create their own reports, labels, etc. or modify templates   Rscript visualization                                                                                                                 P
                                                                               without incurring additional runtime charges.
          Y
           ou may distribute all available List & Label functionali-
                                                                                                                                            combit Report Server as browser-based out-of-the-box reporting solution                                                               P
          ty to any number of end-customers free of charge and                You can leverage your List & Label licenses to develop any   Formula wizard can be integrated into applications, independently of List & Label                                                     P
          without restriction.                                                 number of applications. To what extent you use List &
                                                                               Label is entirely up to you.                                 Long term support for even version numbers until release of next LTS version, typically 2 years                                       P
           ou benefit from attractive volume discounts for developer
          Y
          teams on each List & Label license, even if your team only        More detailed licensing information is available on our
                                                                                                                                            .NET source code as a reference                                                                                                       P
          increases in size over time.                                      website.                                                        Participation in beta testing for major new versions                                                                                  P
                                                                                                                                            Bug Fixing: we guarantee a bugfix within 14 days from reproducibility                                                                 P
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            All prices plus VAT

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Selected Customers
     ADVA Optical Networking               Giesecke+Devrient                                    The Linde Group
     ALSO                                  Helvetia Versicherungen Schweiz                      Triumph
     Bosch Rexroth                         Hitachi                                              TRUMPF
     cibait                                HRM Systems                                          T-Systems International
     Continental                           JPMorgan Chase & Co.                                 Tupperware
     Daimler AG                            Lear Corporation                                     TÜV SÜD
     Descartes                             METTLER TOLEDO                                       Uniper
     Deutsche Automobil Treuhand           MIPS Diagnostics Intelligence                        U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
     Deutsche Bundesregierung              Mitutoyo                                             Versandhaus Walz
     Deutsche Fernsehlotterie              Österreichische Post                                 Volkswagen
     Deutsche Post                         proALPHA                                             Wacker Chemie
     Deutsche WindGuard                    RheinLand Versicherungen                             Wöhlk Contactlinsen
     Dräger                                Sage Mid-Market Europe
     EDEKA                                 Sage Schweiz
     EVENTIM                               Siemens                                              More:
     Francotyp-Postalia                    Stahl                                                www.combit.com/selected-customers

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