Reporting

What does reporting mean?

• Reports allow specialists and managers to analyse company results in all areas of activity. Single point of access to reports, single version of the report configuration, authorizations to access reports allow maintaining the principle of a single "point of truth" in the company. Data in the reports can be taken from data warehouse systems (like SAP Business Warehouse), SAP HANA, or existing relational databases, used within the company (e.g. Oracle, MS SQL Server, DB2, Informix, etc.).

          

  In many cases instead of a single business intelligence solution company uses several different tools or systems covering the needs of a specific department, e.g. Financial Accounting, Controlling, Human Resources, etc.

• In this case, managers need consolidated reporting to get the full picture, based on the data from several systems. In many cases, the consolidation requires a significant amount of manual work which results in report preparation details, high efforts for report preparation, a higher probability of error, and thus lower trust in the data.

          

  Sometimes managers from different departments get different numbers in the same KPIs just because they used different source systems or the data was extracted from the source systems at different times, thus violating the principle of a single "point of truth". Usage of a single BI system company-wide helps to resolve these issues and allows to use of all benefits of business intelligence to full extent and power.

Reporting areas

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  Data visualization in reports is done with
  one or several visualization forms

  • Table form;

            

  • Charts and diagrams;

            

  • Dashboard;

            

  • Business Data Explorer;

            

  • Form-based reporting;

   

  

  Users can access BI reports

  • Via web-pages on corporate portal (thin client);

            

  • Using MS Excels;

            

  • Through mobile apps or web-pages optimized for mobile devices;

            

  • With custom desktop client tools (thick-client);

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  Depending on the area of business
  corporate reporting can be divided in

  • Managerial Accounting;

            

  • Financial accounting;

            

  • GL Accounting;

            

  • Reports in IFRS;

            

  • Analysis of Sales, Warehouse, Procurement;

        

  • Reports Analysis of relationships with suppliers / customers;

              

  • Manufacturing Reports;

           

  • HR reports;

        

  • Key Performance Indicators (KPI) calculation;