not meet wikipedia s notability guidelines for companies and organizations . please help to establish notability by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond its mere trivial mention . if notability can not be established the article is likely to be merged redirected or deleted . find sources data dynamics news newspapers books scholar jstor free images june 2009 learn how and when to remove this template message data dynamics ltd. type limited liability company industry computer software research and development visual component development founded 1996 founder issam elbaytam ferhat buyukkokten headquarters columbus ohio usa key people tim moffatt president issam elbaytam vp technical marketing ferhat buyukkokten vp development website www.datadynamics.com data dynamics ltd. a software development company that creates software components for application developers using microsoft visual studio and the . net platform . the company s primary product focus is on data analysis and information reporting . the company was founded in 1996 in columbus ohio 1 by american immigrants . 2 contents 1 products 2 timeline 3 critical reception 4 references products edit released in 1996 dynamicube was the first activex control that allowed olap multidimensional analysis capabilities for client server and browser based internet applications . 3 4 activebar was the first activex control providing developers with a tool to create detachable menus and toolbars similar to those in the microsoft office applications . 5 activereports was the first activex designer report writer offering developers full report writing capabilities as well as extensive export formats . activereports was also the first activex designer released outside of microsoft . 6 activereports for . net was the first third party reporting tool for visual studio . net that was entirely written in managed code . timeline edit 1996 dynamicube 1.0 released . one of the first 32 bit activex controls for visual basic 4.0 . dynamicube 1.3 released in conjunction with microsoft internet explorer 3.0 s activex capabilities . dynamicube is the first product that brings interactive olap capabilities to activex enabled pages posted on the world wide web . 7 1997 dynamicube 2.0 released . added full internationalization support with unicode and removed dependencies external frameworks such as mfc making it small 350kb and limiting dll hell deployment problems . 8 activebar 1.0 released . activebar is the first third party developer component to allow developers to integrate office 97 style menus and toolbars into their applications . 9 activebar was later ported to the windows nt alpha platform . 10 1998 activereports for visual basic is the first activex designer for visual basic created outside of microsoft . 11 1999 activebar 2.0 released . 11 2001 activereports 2 for visual basic is released with report designer component that developers can embed into their own applications for end users to design reports . 12 2002 activereports is ported and released for microsoft s . net . platform . 13 2003 grid a grid activex control is released . 14 sharpui is a component for . net windows forms that enables developers to provide office 2003 officexp office 2000 and internet explorer style menus and toolbars as well as a set of themed data bound input controls . 15 2005 a 2d and 3d chart control with data binding capability and runtime customization is released from . net . 16 2006 activereports 2.0 for . net is released that includes integrated charting and other enhancements . 17 2007 data dynamics reports a new reporting toolset for the windows platform is released . 18 acquisition activereports was localized and sold in japan by a strategic partner grapecity which localized activereports for japanese programmers . in addition to localizing the user interface and documentation grapecity performed quality testing for japanese usage of the product and requested new features . after a long association with the company in october 2008 grapecity announced their acquisition of data dynamics in columbus ohio . 19 shortly after the acquisition tim moffatt a founder and president of the company died . 20 in june 2012 grapecity announced their acquisition of componentone . as a result grapecity plans to sell activereports under the brand of componentone outside japan . 21 to the future of componentone reports another reporting tool sold by componentone no statement was given . critical reception edit activereports was reviewed by 15 seconds highlighting excellent performance and citations for excellent customer service on this product s dedicated news groups . criticisms included the requirement for visualbasic knowledge complex asp integration and its unpredictability . 22 data dynamics has won industry awards 23 including readers choice from fawcette technical publications best selling and best of class from vbxtras editor s choice from advisor publications productivity award from software development magazine jolt 24 programmer s paradise best selling component and people s choice from msd2d . references edit data dynamics . web.archive.org . 2005 12 15 . archived from the original on december 15 2005 . retrieved 2013 06 14 . american startups with immigrant founders . natwiki . 11 august 2010 . archived from the original on 17 august 2010 . data dynamics ltd. for the press . web.archive.org . archived from the original on june 29 1997 . retrieved 2013 06 14 . data dynamics press release . web.archive.org . archived from the original on june 29 1997 . retrieved 2013 06 14 . new product announcement . web.archive.org . archived from the original on june 29 1997 . retrieved 2013 06 14 . activereports for visual basic data dynamics press release . web.archive.org . archived from the original on october 31 1996 . retrieved 2013 06 14 . data dynamics in the press . web.archive.org . 1997 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