Business intelligence reporting involves providing structured reports and information from data to users and applications through BI software. BI reporting tools allow for customizable dashboards and reports in various formats like tables, charts, and pivot tables. Reports can be delivered in formats such as Excel, PDF, RTF, and XML and scheduled automatically. Reporting provides analyzed data to empower informed business decisions.

1. Common Report Layout Type
and Report Delivery Format
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2. REPORT
0Business intelligence reporting (BI reporting)
is referred to the process of receiving
/providing information or reports to end -
users/ organizations /applications through a
BI software /solution.
0It is typically part of BI software for delivering
summarized and structured reports for the
analysis or operations performed one or more
set of data.

3. Feature of BI reporting tool
0 Easy to setup : The latest web- based BI tool require
no setup you can simply sign ,connect to your data
with just a click and start analyzing data immediately.
0 Powerful analystics: It should provide many out of
box features to perform data analystics with just few
clicks .

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0 Fully customizable :Dashboards and reports should
be fully customizable title color font, formatting logo
,layout size position. This will help you create custom
reports for every department .
0 Moblie BI: people can access BI anytime, anywhere
at office home or on the move . So BI reporting tool
should work well on any devices.

5. REPORT FORMAT
0 MEMOS
0 LETTERS
0 FORMAL REPORTS
0 SEMI-FORMAL REPORTS

6. MEMOS
0A memos, are most effectively used when sent
to a small to moderate number of people to
communicate company or job objective.
0Memo for English language learners a usually
brief written message from one person or
department in an organization ,company etc
to another.

7. LETTER
0A character representing one or more of the
sound used in speech any of symbols of an
alphabet
0Letter definition a, written or printed
communication addressed to person or
organization.

8. Formal report
0A formal report is an official report that
contain detailed information, research and
data necessary to make business decision
0This report is generally written for the
purpose of solving a problem.

9. Semi formal report
0 A semi formal report also called a titled
document ,is a shorter ,less complex version of
formal report.
0 Semi formal reports typically have multiple
page including a title page , introduction page
a body and references.

10. Comman Reporting Type
 Powerful Reporting
 Dynamic named set
 Ad-Hoc Analysis
 Real Time Reports
 Visualization
 Automated Report Scheduling
 Drilling
 Downloading
 Dynamic Named sets

11. Conti….
0 Powerful reporting- filters hundreds of pieces of
data quickly generate dozens of detailed reports are
easy understand . Use a variety of standard reports
creates your own
0 Dynamic named sets-
It is usually used if you want a set to be re-evaluted in
the current context opposed to static named sets which
are only evaluted once during creation .

12. Conti….
0 Ad-Hoc-
Answer any question at any time by exploring multi-
dimensional data from many different perspective by
filtering , drilling down, slicing, and dicing.
0 Real time reports-
Gain all the benefits from reporting services reports
while providing user with a single reporting
environment .

13. Conti…
Visualization –
add a chart to report in a single click choosen from a
wide range of charts and marks chart 3D.
Automated Report Schelding-
Schelding the automatic distribution of reports
knowing that that security will be automatically
applied so that users see only authorized data.

14. Conti….
Downloading –
users can export analyses to serveral file types
including excel and pdf . chats can also be downloaded
as image file.
Drilling-
users can drill- through ,drill up a drill down to obtain
exactly the right piece of data for a reports.

15. Report Layout
0 Table
0 Chart
0 Pivot Table
0 Chart and Table
0 Chart and Pivot Table
0 Two Charts and Table

16. Table
0Columns are displayed in a simple tabular
format and the column widths are
automatically adjusted based on the number
of selected columns as shown in the following
illustration.
0To remove a column from the table, hover
your mouse over the upper-right hand corner
of the column header and click Delete.

17. Table Layout

18. Chart Layout
0The Chart Layout page supports three types of
charts. Choose the chart type by clicking its
icon: Bar, Line, or Pie. Add columns to the
chart by dragging and dropping them from the
Data Source pane to the chart area.
0 The following figure shows the create chart layout.

19. Conti..

20. Pivot Table Layout
When you select columns for the pivot table layout, the
columns display on the Create Table page.The figure
below shows the columns displayed.
0 The Show Row Grand Totals option is selected by
default. Deselect this option to hide
0 the row in the table that includes the grand total for
each column.

21. Pivot Table

22. Conti…
0 The Show Column Grand Totals option is selected by
default. Deselect this option to hide the column in the
table that includes the grand total for each row.
0 Click Switch Rows and Columns to flip the rows and
columns axes.
0 Click Preview Report to display the report in the
report viewer

23. Report delivery formats
0 Excel
0 RTF
0 Pdf
0 XLS Style Sheet
0 E Text

24. Excel
0 Many people spend hours each week rekeying data
from paper document or copying and pasting
information into spread sheet.
0 Excel templates enable you to map data and define
calculations and formatting logic in an Excel
workbook. Excel templates support Microsoft Excel
(.xls) output only.

25. Conti..

26. Rich Text Format (RTF)
RTF is a mix between rich text files and plaintext files. Unlike
text files, RTF files offer some formatting features
like bold, italic, underline, bullets, different fonts, and
text justification.
The RTF format also supports advanced formatting commands
providing the most flexible and powerful of the layout options.
RTF templates support a variety of output types including:
Excel(mhtml), Excel (html), Excel (*.xlsx), HTML, MHTML, PDF,
PowerPoint, RTF, and Zipped PDF. RTF.

27. Conti..
0 Although many applications can import Microsoft
Word® DOC files, older programs may not be able to
import or convert newer versions of Word. This is not
the case with RTF. All major word processing
programs can read.

28. Portable Document Format
0 is a file format that has captured all the elements of a
printed document as an electronic image that you can
view, navigate, print, or forward to someone.
0 User can save graphical dashboards to PDF.
0 Web FOCUS enables the creation of graphs in a
scalable vector graphics (SVG) format. which is
fundamentally different from image formats, such as
GIF or JPEG because it is not pixel based

29. Conti…
0 PDF is the
preferred format
for printing and
distributing
outward –facing
materials, such
as annual
reports invoices
and billing
statement.

30. XSL Stylesheet
Extensible Stylesheet Language and describes the
way that XML data should be formatted and displayed.
Layouts can also be defined directly in XSL formatting
language. XSL is a language for expressing style sheets.
An XSL style sheet is, like with CSS, a file that describes
how to display an XML document of a given type.
Specify whether the layout is for Data (CSV), Data
(XML), Formatted XML, HTML, Text, or XML
transformation

31. Conti..

32. Benefits of Reporting
0 Reporting is the necessary prerequisite of analysis; as
such, it should be viewed in light of the goal of making
data understandable and ready for easy, efficient and
accurate analysis.
0 Collecting and presenting data ready to be analyzed,
including historical data that can be tracked over time
0 Empowering end-users with the knowledge to
become experts in their area of business
0 Having the underlying figures to back up actions and
explain decisions

33. Business Intelligence Tools

34. SISENSE TOOL ANAYLSIS

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