Business Intelligence Report Types

Learn more about the different report types in Business Intelligence.

Analysis Reports

The Analysis Reports tool is an intuitive analytical visualization application that filters and drills down into business information contained in Spectrum data sources. Use Analysis Reports to compile data quickly in an interactive environment and perform advanced sorting and filtering of your data.

Main features of Analysis Reports:

  • Ability to create user-definable measures
  • Display the top or bottom 10 or group of records
  • Display records greater than, less than or equal to a value
  • Ability to create graphs and charts
  • Column resizing and sorting
  • Unlimited undo and redo functionality
  • Ability to output reports as HTML, PDF, CSV, Excel Workbook, or Excel 93-2003 Workbook files
  • Ability to display reports in a dashboard
  • Ability to drill back to Spectrum screens for more information is called deep linking.

Interactive Reports

The Interactive Reports tool provides an intuitive, drag-and-drop, browser-based design environment that enables you to quickly add elements to your report and format them any way you like.

Main features of Interactive Reports:

  • Drag-and-drop report design
  • Font selection
  • Column resizing and sorting
  • Ability to rename column headers
  • Copy and paste functionality
  • Unlimited undo and redo functionality
  • Ability to output reports as HTML, PDF, CSV, Excel Workbook, or Excel 93-2003 Workbook files
  • Ability to display reports in a dashboard

Dashboards

Spectrum Business Intelligence allows the administrator to create a dashboard displaying Analysis and Interactive reports. These dashboards are then shared with users in your organization.

Dashboards support parameters that can be used to change the company, job and so on.

Scheduled Reports

Both Analysis and Interactive reports may be scheduled to run at regular intervals, on certain dates and times, and with different parameters. Scheduled reports are then emailed automatically to end users as well.

Standard Reports

The purpose of Standard Reports is to provide default reports that can be used as is or modified. Think of these reports as a starting place that can be modified to fit your company's needs.

These reports cannot be saved back to the Standard Reports folder. Instead, a modified copy may be saved in either the My Reports folder, or in your company's tenant folder, depending on security.