Report Design and Formatting Features and Functions

• Embedded production report writers


• Step-by-step report creator


• Point-and-click graphics tool


• Hide or drill down to detailed information


• Pre-set templates


• Save, schedule, and publish reports


• Multiblock reports


• Report catalog and report serving


• P&L reporting


• Data-manipulation capabilities for row and cumulative totals


• Cross-tabs enable breaking a report accross an unlimited amount of categories


• Add calculations such as sum, average, moving average, and count to reports


• Desktop and web reporting interfaces


• Identify exceptions in report


• Streamlines workflow processes


• Automates the generation of reports


• Publishes report templates for others to be modified


• Formatting tools to change fonts, colors, styles, column and row sizes, and alignment


• Links to several reports on a single page without requiring them to do programming


• Access to analytics from Microsoft Office applications


• Report wizards guide users through analytical and reporting tasks


• Formulas such as sum, average, moving average, count etc.


• Functions


• Custom functions


• Batch production and distribution of reports


• Combine multiple reports into a single "report dashboard"


• Exception highlighting to show values in a report that are above or below a value range


• Export reports to other formats


• Create metrics


• View, create, modify, print, and forward reports


• Auto saving


• Multiple format support including HTML, Excel, and PDF


• Proactive drill-down options including automatic, conditional, and in all supported formats


• Cascading style sheets


• Financial reporting and analysis including intuitive ad hoc, OLAP, and forecasting


• Integration with Microsoft Front Page and other HTML development tools


• Interface with Microsoft Analysis Services and Hyperion Essbase


• Multilingual user interface supports


• Subsets creation for the logical groupings of information


• Nested crosstabs and charts


• Data explorer capability


• Report explorer capability


• Repository explorer capability


• Field explorer capability


• Graphical table linking


• Field mapping between databases


• Custom templates


• Preview window


• Asymmetric reporting provide a customized view of OLAP grids


• 100 percent Java reporting component


• Custom Java tag library reduces the amount of coding required to integrate reports into JSP pages


• Support object-oriented 4GL


• Graphical interface avoids complex languages like "C" or Java


• GUI, drag-and-drop development environment


• Add columns


• Add filters


• Create metrices


• Create analytic workflows


• Calculate initial insights into the data quickly and easily


• User-defined groupings to define customized data groups