Different Types of Enterprise Reporting Needs

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Most of organizations might be using different type of data
reporting for these business needs but there are a lot of similarities too. Here
are the various types of Enterprise Reporting I have collected so far:

  •  List Reporting – The most common
    usage of Enterprise Reporting is the formatted displays or presentations
    of organizational data lists through list, text, graphics or other
    rendering formats for periodic business operation. Various levels of
    itemized rows and aggregated summaries are typically used in List
    Reporting. Data rows and summaries might be assembled from one or more
    than one functional discipline areas within the enterprises.

 

  • Interactive Analysis
    – Enterprise
    users needs to perform analysis upon large set of data to understand or
    find presentation of the data. These analysis typically are interactive
    and allow users to directly select dimensions (location, department, time,
    etc) to compare measurements (sales growth, cost distributions, amount
    etc). The interactive analysis requires data readily available when
    different dimentions, measurement are chosen so typically data are
    pre-calculated or aggregated using specific data model like OLAP.

  • Ad-hoc Querying - Ability to allow advanced business users for ad-hoc data needs and play "what-if" scenarios to determine what are the best use of enterprise data. Most of time it involves Excel or other front-end easy tools for those users to analysis or querying data.

  • Metric Management - In many organizations, business performance is managed and measured through
    outcome-oriented metrics. These metrics are agreed measurement to track
    and compare the business performance over a period of time. Within the
    organization, these are mostly called Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). For
    external organizations, they are Service Level Agreement (SLAs).

  • Dashboard - Another way for enterprise to consume their reporting data is publishing
    them into customized dashboard views, mostly hosted within enterprises’
    internet portal. These dashboards might use graphic to mimic color-coded
    auto dashboard indicator for easy but grand overview of enterprise’s key
    performance.

  • Balance Scorecards - A method attempts to present an
    integrated view of success in an organization. In addition to financial
    performance, they also include customer, business process and learning and
    growth perspectives.

  • Data Mining - When enterprise holds large
    amount of data, many of them started to analysis using Data Mining
    technique neural networks and machine learning to study and find potential
    common patterns in the data. Most of the data mining takes time and
    dimensions into account to try to predict or forecast the learning.