The product suite relies on a unified architectural model to cover all aspects of reporting to all levels of business users

Operational

Operational reports are the backbone for business processes. They provide insight to detail or summary information at the operational level within the enterprise. Operational reports are typically produced in electronic format and paper printouts for a wide range of users. Customer Invoices, purchase orders, Corporate Statements Balance Sheets are typical examples of operational reports.  Usually they run at a predefined time schedules (daily, weekly, monthly) or on demand by users when needed. Operational reports are normally static generally cover standardized information requirements for internal and external users of the organization.

The product suite supports the generation of any type of operational report. Even more these reports are not static in terms of appearance and content but permits end user interactivity so personalized content can also be delivered.

Analytic OLAP Reporting

Analytic Reporting empowers business users to manipulate business dimensions and measures to create specific views of information. This allows users to investigate relationships of data across different business perspectives and angles.  Typical business dimensions used for Olap reporting are Location, Product, Sales Type, Time etc. OLAP reporting is especially useful for historical and trend analysis.

The product suite offers complete OLAP support that is easy to use and is integrated within the general reporting infrastructure End users can analyse data in an OLAP-style fashion with just a few clicks of the mouse from within the same User Interface. Users can create and manipulate OLAP reports based on dimensions and measures, slice and dice data, create On line calculations, drill-down, drill-up etc. User defined preferences concerning specific views of dimensions can also be saved and quickly retrieved.

Drilldown, Drill Up, Drill Through

The ability to move from summary to detail information or to linked reports is vital for a truly integrated Information infrastructure. Navigation paths can be set up within the product suite so that a report can contain multiple drill paths navigating to other reports. These paths are not Data Source dependant so navigation paths allow linking of reports where data resides in multiple data sources. 

Interactive Reporting 

End Users are empowered to control report to accommodate specific presentation needs. From within the Information Portal users can dynamically apply the data elements to include in the report before or after the report is displayed. Sorting, column selection, grouping, subtotals are typical functions supported by the product suite. Users can also create on demand new data elements (or calculated columns) based on simple expressions or advanced business logic.
Controlling the format output is just a few clicks of the mouse away, allowing greater control of the report presentation. Most importantly all this on line interactivity (format options, calculated elements etc.) can be stored on line to the metadata repository by business users, so that the reports can be finalized from within the Information Portal according to business perspective.

 Parameter Driven Reporting

Parameter driven reporting refers to the ability to display report content under parameter and prompting mechanisms. Parameter prompting is fully supported with a wide range of parameter Types to control the data range delivered. Parameter prompting is also used to apply row and column level security, ensuring that only the appropriate information is accessible to end users, according to their roles and privileges.

Role Based Information Delivery

The product suite allows various security levels to be set up (at report user or role level) so that only authorized users can view the appropriate content. Security settings are created regardless of the Report data source. This means that only 1 version of a report can satisfy multiple users or roles so that content is delivered according to the user accessing the report.

Structured With Unstructured Information under a single view

With the document Integrator module business’s can seamlessly integrate documents  into their reporting and analytic applications .This is accomplished by utilizing metadata to fully describe the context of documents residing on shared drives and PC stations. By ‘’tagging’’ documents with the appropriate metadata information organizations can give semantic meaning to these unstructured forms of information.  This metadata information can be utilized to relate documents with structured information residing in Relational Systems or semi structured repositories.
For instance a Customer entity, with data coming from an ERP or CRM application can be related with documents such as Contracts, faxes residing on shared workstations. All this information is presented to end user in under a unified view.