About Reporting

IFS Application reporting consists of technologies used to:

• Output information on paper or electronic documents as part of a business process (Operational Reporting)
• Design and show graphs or tables that visualize or list data (Ad-Hoc Reporting)
• Assemble data from various locations in to one view for the purpose of analyzing the data (Information Access Layer)

In the above definitions it would be natural to include Business Intelligence (BI), which provides both additional ad-hoc reporting/analysis capabilities as well as Information Sources (partly overlapping the functionality of Information Access Layers). We have decided to keep them separate but linked together. This is mainly because IFS packages BI into a separate component, hence it's not available in all IFS Applications installations like the Reporting capabilities.

Contents

• Operational Reporting
• Ad-Hoc Reporting
• Information Access Layer