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RAD Solutions: REPORTING & ANALYSIS TOOLS
The EFACS Enterprise Reporting internal business reporting engine is named EARL (EFACS Advanced Reporting Language). EFACS Enterprise ERP also provide links to a selection of the most Reporting applications including: Crystal Reports, SSRS and BIRT.
SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
SQL Server Reporting Services provides a full range of ready-to-use tools and services to help you create, deploy, and manage reports for your organisation, as well as programming features that enable you to extend and customise your reporting functionality.
With Reporting Services, you can create interactive, tabular, graphical, or free-form reports from relational, multidimensional, or XML-based data sources. You can publish reports, schedule report processing, or access reports on-demand. Reporting Services also enables you to create ad hoc reports based on predefined models, and to interactively explore data within the model. You can select from a variety of viewing formats, export reports to other applications, and subscribe to published reports. The reports that you create can be viewed over a Web-based connection or as part of a Microsoft Windows application or SharePoint site. Reporting Services provides the key to your business data.
Business Intelligence & Reporting Tools (BIRT)
Business Intelligence & Reporting Tools (BIRT) is a powerful, platform independent and widely used open source graphical report writing toolkit, which can be used to quickly and easily produce detailed, compelling and graphically rich reports from your EFACS Enterprise database. The Eclipse-based open source reporting system provides an advanced and stable reporting tool for building and publishing reports within your organisation.
Interactive reports using real time data can be easily designed, explored, delivered and connected to any data source within the EFACS Enterprise system. It allows end users to access important business data, conduct on-report business modelling and make key business decisions effectively.
BIRT report designs utilise XML, Java, XPath, XSLT and XSL-FO technology and links in with EFACS Enterprise so that reports can be generated from virtually any area of the system.
EFACS Enteprise is capable of processing huge amounts of business data and information on a daily basis. Businesses often need to create reports to illustrate important key facts or statistics, and can do so by accessing this data. Whether new reports are needed or existing ones need modification, they can be quickly created through this easy to use toolkit.
Reports can be easily amended and manipulated. EFACS Enterprise data can also be presented as a graphical chart or table. Whether you need an effective visual tool to keep up to date and on track with shop floor activities or to report bottom line figures to the management team, Business Intelligence & Reporting Tools will provide a quick and powerful way to achieve these results
Business Intelligence
The EFACS Enterprise Business Intelligence Module further enhances the standard sales analysis and forecasting functionality, to produce sophisticated analytical reports on information held in the EFACS Enterprise system.
The information is presented to the User in the format of a cube allowing drag and drop interaction with the data being analysed. Cubes are developed using helpful wizards and can generate graphs and the facility to drill down through the information. The resultant data can be output as a printed report, e-mail attachment or directly passed to other desktop tools such as a word processor or spreadsheet. A comprehensive library of standard cubes representing each module within EFACS Enterprise is supplied.
This allows users to generate their own custom designed, powerful reports and Key Performance Indicators quickly and easily without the need for detailed technical expertise. For day to day reporting requirements, EFACS Enterprise also provides many standard reports and interactive query screens for viewing information such as outstanding works orders, work-to-lists, purchasing requirements, invoices, statements, credit notes and much more.
