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The problem is that the report generation process is not particularly interesting from the IT point
of view as it does not involve heavy data processing and manipulation tasks. The IT
professionals do not tend to pay great attention to this BI area as they consider it rather 'look and
feel' than the 'real heavy stuff'.
From the other hand, the lack of technical exposure of the business users usually makes the
report design process too complicated for them.
The conclusion is that the key to success in reporting (and the whole BI environment) is the
collaboration between the business and IT professionals.
Types of reports
Reporting is a broad BI category and there is plenty of options and modes of its generation,
definition, design, formatting and propagation.
The report types can be divided into several groups, illustrated below:
Reports with fixed layout defined by a report designer when the report is created
Very often the static reports contain subreports and perform calculations or implement
advanced functions
Ad-hoc report
Dashboard
Contain high-level, aggregated company strategic data with comparisons and performance
indicators
Write-back report
Those are interactive reports directly linked to the Data Warehouse which allow modification of
the data warehouse data.
By far the most often use of this kind of reports is:
Technical report
This group of reports is usually generated to fulfill the needs of the following areas:
IT technical reports for monitoring the BI system, generate execution performance statistics,
data volumes, system workload, user activity etc.
Data quality reports - which are an input for business analysts to the data cleansing process
Reporting platforms
IBM Cognos
Microstrategy
SAS
JasperReports
Business Intelligence. Delivers rich, consumable, interactive information through solutions like
dashboards, portable analytics, and ad hoc reporting to the widest range of employees, managers,
analysts, partners and customers; to integrate business activity monitoring (BAM), complex event
processing (CEP), and BI in a simple yet powerful way to view, monitor, and report on business
processes