Our company (UNiQUARE Software Development GmbH) provides a "product library" (application with scalable business scope) for banks and financial service providers. The solution covers customer relationship management, branch services and more. Beside the rich business functionality, our software already provided several reports and printouts in PDF, DOC and XLS format. A customer asked us to provide some simple forms also in DOCX format, respectively based on DOCX templates (using a find replace mechanisms for defined placeholders).

The currently used solutions (Apache POI via Cocoon, Eclipse BIRT) were examinded. Apache POI does not really hide the documents DOM structure and some API functions we need are missing. We evaluated other APIs also but Aspose was the only one (!) that offers a well designed API. It helped us to decrease development time.