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The Business Intelligence component system offers two options

  • BI Enquiries

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  • BI Reports

What are BI Enquiries

BI Enquires are a set of standardised data views provided with your application

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  • These are often lists of data, use the enquiry level filters and column heading filters to find the data you're looking for.

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  • These can be easily extracted to Excel for further analysis, other extract formats also exist.

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  • It is possible to have new enquiries created for your company's specific needs but these changes can only be implemented by ourselves

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  • alongside an application version update.

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What are BI Reports

BI Reports are a set of reports combining "system reports" provided with your application by ourselves and reports that your own staff can create and share themselves.

  • Reports typically aggregate data and present it in an easily digestible form such as a pie chart, bar graph, etc.

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  • These are not ideal for lists of data as the report will become useless, spanning many pages.

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  • Although these can be extracted,

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  • as PDF or

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  • Excel files they are designed to fit on a page.

  • Excel extract is available, but due to the report formatting, BI Enquiries are much better suited for extracting data for further analysis in Excel.

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To create your own reports requires a license, see the section below.

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Can I design my own BI Reports?

Yes, there is a report write module available, this is not included with the standard BI module.

Can I see what it looks like

Yes, there are links below to youtube videos that provide you with an overview of the modules.

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BI Reports Licensing:

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Do these require licenses?

Yes, there are two available licenses available for each application in Vision Suite.

  • Reporter - Use existing reports and have new reports written by the Vision team without the need for an application release.
     

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  • Report Designer - this is a fairly advanced report writing tool however you can create your own reports directly from the data. 

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What if I do not have the experience to create my own reports?

For a nominal sum, we can prepare them for you and load them onto the system.

More Information

Click the links below

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