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Enquiry
Reporting
Designer
The Enquiry and Reporting Component
This part These parts known as "BI Enquiries" and "BI Reports" are are menu options which that appear on the applications where the Business Intelligence module has been integrated.
"BI Enquiries" provide data grid output from the various enquiries made on the database, this allows you to access to data to and drop it into excelExcel, csv CSV or PDF and use in formats. You could then import this into external applications or simply just view it on the screen.
"BI Reporting" provides access to built-in reports which can contain tables, grids , and graphs. These reports are properly laid out reports which can be printed and used internally or provided to a customer, they can also be used to display live information on demand.
Until the end of 2017, we will provide customers access to all enquiries and reports we add to the system.
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It is now possible to run this in all the Vision core applications, although some have had no enquiry requests so there maybe may be no reports.
Can more enquiries/reports be added?
Yes, you can request additional enquiries to be added to the "BI Enquiry" and you can also request a "BI Report" to be added.
We charge from £90 for each additional enquiry and or report but it will depend on the complexity , you of the report for the cost of it. You can request these through the RFC portal, implementation can take anything from a few days to a couple of weeks and does not require a new application install.
In comparison, if you add something to the main application then this will require a new release and prices for this begin around £600.
Can I have a trial?
You can have a 3 month trial of the "BI Enquiries" or "Bi Reports" .
There is a charge for this module but existing customers who trial the system and wish to keep it before 31 Dec 2017 will only pay a monthly fee in order to provide . This is to cover the support and maintenance for this module for in the future.
For each application, you wish to have the BI Enquiries or Reports module for the charge is £35 per application per year, and you will only pay for 3, if you have it in all systems you will only be charged for 3.
The Designer Component
For those who want to design their own reports, you can take advantage of the designer component, which . This provides a powerful report writing tool where you can build your own reports, tables, charts , graphs and live data from and graphs using the existing set sets of data views we provide.
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Due to the large number of data tables available in within Vision including which include our control tables, audit tables and tables specifically for HMRC auditing, we provide you with a set of data views which provide that allow you with to access to customers, stock, invoice ratesinvoicing, orders , and goods inwards . It also makes the ability to output reports and understand things much easier, for example information. For example, the orders tables require 60 separate tables to be joined, we provide you access to this information using 6 different views which so far has provided everyone with enough information to generate the reports they requiredrequire.
What we will not show you in this data are.
Passwords
Security information of any sort
System Configuration settings or any system tables
HMRC audit tables
Transactional databases where transactions flow through them (such as EDI)
Temporary or virtual tables
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