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Reporting

There are three distinct parts of reporting in IFS Applications

• Operational Reporting - Output information on paper or in electronic documents as part of a business process (e.g. invoices, order confirmations, ...).
• Ad-hoc Reporting - A way to visualize data to be able to facilitate decision making, often includes aggregations and graphs. Essentially basic Business Intelligence (BI) support and run on demand by a user rather than as part of a business process (e.g. monthly sales statistics per region).
• Information Access Layer - A way to assemble/aggregate data from various locations in to one view more suitable for analyzing or presenting the data.

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 the IFS Applications BI solution is an optional component not always available, opposed to the reporting capabilities that are included in the standard IFS Applications runtime framework.

Contents

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