Different Types of Enterprise Reporting Needs
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.
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