BDA Reporting Solution 

(powered by Analyzer)

 

 

See What Is Happening Across The Enterprise

 

There's an old saying, "If you aren't measuring it, it must not be important." Today, more than ever, understanding your business activities is critical to making quality decisions that keep your business competitive. Some measure by gut-feel, but the winning companies use objective, quantifiable measurements based on factual data.

Those winning companies rely on reports from every area of the business – from supply chain to sales and marketing – measuring everything from quality and productivity to profit margins and customer loyalty. However, producing all of these reports takes a toll on your IT group.

The demand for more information has created a backlog of new report requests that are difficult for IT to manage. Every day, requests for new reports arrive. Smart CIOs know that the answer depends on making users self-sufficient and providing them with the ability to satisfy their own reporting needs.

Analyzer is intuitive and makes it easy to navigate large amounts of data quickly by offering a full range of capabilities that enable your users to create new reports, analyze trends, and share results. With Analyzer, users can complete their own information cycle.    

    

      

Analyzer makes building new reports easy. Working in a familiar Windows®-style environment, users drag and drop components to create new reports. Analyzer’s one-click functionality with context sensitive menus make Analyzer easy to learn.

Users, report designers, and administrators each access Analyzer through their web browser, which provides them with full functionality to view, create, manage, and share information based on their role. Analyzer works in a single browser instance using tabs to let users access multiple reports.

     

Components are the building blocks of reports and there are many components to choose from. Users can build reports using tabular data in pivot tables, visually-compelling charts and graphs, business process diagrams, web pages, or Reporting Services® reports, allowing them to choose the best way to present the information.

Each page is made up of one or many components, giving the user the flexibility to display multiple metrics. Each component is based on data from cube-based dimensions, measures, named sets, and key performance indicators, as well as the underlying data from the relational database. Analyzer’s tight integration with Microsoft’s SQL Server® allows users to take advantage of Reporting Services reports by embedding them into their reports and passing parameters back to Reporting Services directly. Users can also drag-and-drop between an Analyzer report and Reporting Services report.

  

       

In addition to building custom reports, users can also add conditional formatting for the highest impact. In-table visualization features bring the reports to life. Colorful highlights, stoplights, and data bars can be added alongside the values in each report cell for quick, visual analysis. Analyzer’s color themes allow users to change color on any report or report component to make them easy to find and organize.

As users work with Analyzer, the step list function tracks every action during the session, allowing them to return to a previous state anytime, giving users the freedom and confidence they need to try new ways to analyze and present their data.  

  

Analyzer reports and dashboards can contain multiple sheets, each with multiple components such as pivot tables, charts, web pages, Reporting Services reports,

scorecards, and more

 

 

 

 

 

           

 

Subscriptions can be set up by administrators or users, allowing one or more reports or  dashboards to be proactively emailed to users on a schedule of

their choice.

 

 

 

 

 

       

 

Microsoft Reporting Services reports can also be included within an Analyzer report or dashboard. These parameter-driven reports allow you to show the related detail information of your choice via a simple right-click.

 

 

 

 

 

As users view the data, they find trends they'd like to explore. Users can take advantage of Analyzer's advanced ordering, sorting, and filtering capabilities. Rows inside of tables can be re-ordered to bring more important categories to the top. Data values can also be ordered and sorted, which is especially helpful when there are hundreds of rows returned. Data can be ordered to show values ascending or descending, and top and bottom number or percentages. Advanced filtering makes it simple to apply Boolean expressions to values or text. For large, complex reports, the zoom feature lets users focus on particular areas, and natural-language search lets users find reports containing certain properties using familiar terms or names. Analyzer's bookmarks allow users to quickly find and share their favorite views of the data. Bookmarks can be either personal or shared, and are available in the easily accessible bookmark list. Users give each report user-friendly names and can add detailed descriptions that will help other users find reports that fit their needs.

Users can also subscribe to favorite reports and receive them via email according to a schedule they define. Administrators can also do this on behalf of users, as well as set up event-driven triggers which will cause a report to be emailed to one or more users when a certain business condition occurs. Users may have existing spreadsheet-based models they wish to use in conjunction with Analyzer. Analyzer makes this easy with a one-click export to Excel so users can continue their analysis in other favorite tools.     

 

 Share the Results

The real value in information is getting it in the hands of someone who can take action. Analyzer completes the information cycle by making it easy to share results. Analyzer’s unique collaboration features let users overlay color-coded "sticky" notes with their questions, comments, and instructions. Users can also quickly highlight report areas of interest in multiple colors corresponding to one or more of the “sticky” notes which have been annotated to the report.

Once the report is ready to share, it can be e-mailed using Analyzer’s built-in messaging system or through your standard e-mail system. Reports are stored in Analyzer’s folder system, making them easily accessible to other, authorized users.

Many companies today have locations in different parts of the world. Analyzer can be accessed in multiple languages, allowing for broad deployment across global companies. With one click, reports can instantly be converted to any number of languages using SQL Server's multiple-language feature.

Reports can tell you what is happening, but to learn why, users need to dig in and analyze the data.  

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