Amidst global business expansion, complex business requirements and stringent compliance requirements, Reporting features as a major enterprise activity for organizations. Reports are critical business tools that provide a consolidated snapshot of the activity/process being reported. They present raw data in an organized and lucid form for stakeholders to take informed decisions. Reports depict trends, reveal bottlenecks, improve responsiveness and customer service, increase productivity, and ensure compliance to legal mandates.
Enterprise reporting has grown much beyond the traditional reporting realms. Quite often, organizations have multiple systems running across the enterprise, with these applications producing voluminous output. Organizations want to consistently capture output of such applications as consolidated reports, which reveal meaningful insights into enterprise health. In addition, business requirements mandate that reports not only capture data comprehensively but also store and archive reports for quick retrieval later on. All this lets the applications focus on core functionality, while responding quickly to customer queries. Therefore, a comprehensive reporting solution becomes a vital cog in enterprise wheel.
To cater to modern-day enterprises’ needs, an ideal reporting solution must offer the following :
- Consistent report acquisition and archival and search, based on report metadata and content
- Scalable and robust back-end for storing reports
- Data visualization for lucidly conveying the data-intensive information
- Workflow for collaborative working among users
- Extensively support billing requirements such as electronic bill presentment, duplicate bill printing
- Support multiple report formats such as PDF, TIFF, jpeg, gif, mht, xls, txt
- Extend external applications’ functionality at low investment cost
- Anytime, anywhere access to enterprise reports with built-in access and privilege rights for secured access
- Comprehensive print management capabilities for optimized printing of reports across the organization
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