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Importing Report Assets - InetSoft's reporting software is adept and flexible and allows users to import report assets in a variety of formats. An asset is any reporting unit, which could be a bean, meta-template, dashboard, replet, etc., as well as assets within worksheets or Viewsheets. The options described below allow for assets to be selectively exported from the data space and imported into a new environment, thus facilitating incremental deployment. An asset dependency audit can also be performed. Assets can be selectively imported into the data space by using the 'Repository' > 'Import Assets' node under the Server tab, which opens the 'Select JAR File' page. This allows an administrator to incrementally deploy assets to an existing environment without overwriting all the assets in that environment. The assets to import must reside in an archive file generated by the 'Export Asset' feature described above. To import a set of assets from an archive file: 1. On the 'Select JAR File' page, enter the file name of the archive containing the assets to import, and click OK. 2. The 'JAR Information' page opens and displays the asset contents of the specified jar file...
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Impromptu Reports - Today's business users are looking for quick and easy ways to create new reports or visualizations of their data. Rather than the old model of giving time and resource consuming requests to database analysts, IT and business managers are looking for self-service functionality to meet the demands for impromptu reports...
Information Reporting tool - Businesses have a lot of information they need to keep track of. They also have a lot of information they need to convey to other firms. Information reporting tools have the versatility to handle both of these tasks. Information reporting tools are capable of both monitoring a business in real time and communicating those outcomes to employees and clients. Reporting tools come in many different flavors. There are desktop applications that thrive as standalone environments, monitoring businesses from the inside. There are remote applications that live on the Web, accessing realtime information from designated sources...
Information about Software for Reports - If your company has data (customer information, sales figures, inventory levels, etc.), then there are major benefits to having reporting software. Market driven companies use data to get a better understanding of the competition, their customers, and their own performance. But raw data is not as useful to businesses on its own. In order for business users to understand, interpret, and make informed decisions, all that data needs to be transformed into a more user friendly format. Reporting software is a business tool that transforms raw data into meaningful information...
Integrate, Report, and Analyze Data Any Way You Want - Well let’s create a globally consistent way to integrate, report and analyze data and then just open up lots of local franchises throughout the company in either the sales, service, marketing, HR, finance or some of the different lines of business units. And then by bringing it to the local market it’s going to be more responsive. It’s going to have more domain expertise, but there is still a sort of global consistency. So that might be more right for a more centralized self-service BI approach. Now I have seen other folks, and a lot of manufacturers come to mind who tend to be very decentralized, base their BI strategy upon lines of business units. They wanted to be even more decentralized, and they almost had what I would almost view as a bottoms-up approach where essentially the different departments get to do whatever they want. They can integrate, report and analyze data any way they want, and they had full autonomy and full control. And the job of the centralized team is really just to kind of watch what the decentralized teams are doing, and when they are doing something really useful, identify that and promote that, and disseminate that out to the other departments and say hey, this team over here is doing something really cool, let’s make this more widely available to other aspects of our enterprise...
Integrated Reporting System - InetSoft offers a unique reporting system that can be easily integrated across multiple platforms. InetSoft’s software can help you seamlessly pull data from different data sources regardless of the format, source, or platform, so that you can create integrated reports and dashboards. You can also easily integrate InetSoft’s programming components into your own unique application at many different levels to utilize the web services, customize the built-in portal, and pass credentials directly from your application to the Style Intelligence framework for single sign-on. Integrating different data sources is becoming increasingly important, and almost a necessity in today’s business world. Why is that? With InetSoft’s integrative capabilities across multiple platforms and data combination, you are able to get a clear, concise view of your own business within just a matter of minutes. And by getting what you need in just minutes, not days, you can make monumental decreases in administrative costs, quickly. Companies that have integrated BI and ERP together have reported a 67% decrease in administrative costs and improvements in on-time shipping, and there are many areas of business that are improved as a whole...
Integrating Report Components In A Web Application - The ServletRepository generates DHTML output according to the parameters in HTTP requests. The parameters are embedded in the generated DHTML and are normally not used directly by an application to access the servlet. This Appendix contains a partial list of the parameters for the servlet. Parameters for internal use only are not listed. The parameters can be used to construct a URL to access the server from application client-side code. The HTTP request can be submitted with both the GET and POST methods. Also see IFrame Integration for information on integrating report components using the “op” codes described below...
Interactive Forms in a Report - Report Designer supports data entry and report customization through interactive forms. A form is a collection of interactive controls, such as Text fields, Radio Buttons, and Combo Boxes. Interactive forms are used primarily in two roles: Embedded in reports to allow report customization, and embedded in parameter sheets to allow parameter entry. See the Parameterization section of the Report Designer for the basic methods of obtaining user input (without scripting). The following sections here expand on some of the more advanced features available for user interaction. There are two basic aspects: • Creating a Form: Client-side presentation and event scripting • Processing a Form: Server side scripting. There are two steps in creating a form: Adding form controls, and adding client-side script. The first step in creating an interactive form is to add form controls to a report or parameter sheet. (These form elements are represented as basic HTML form elements when the report is rendered in the User Portal.) Form control elements all share two properties. Controls with the same form name are grouped into a single form. To add form elements, follow the steps below: 1. In Report Designer, click the right-arrow button on the top of the element toolbar to expand the toolbar. (See Form Design in the Report Designer for toolbar information...
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Interactive Reports Detailing the Law Firm’s Performance - So, by the end of the meeting that I had with John, which went for longer than a half an hour, in the end, because he got so excited looking at the interactive reports detailing the law firm’s performance numbers for the quarter. But he said don’t send the hard copies to James. He is very computer literate. Send him an electronic copy. I’ll send him in an email and tell him to expect it. He’ll get it straightaway. He was just blown away by the whole thing, and so was I. I just hadn’t expected that, to see a change in the guy that I know quite well. And he’s a really good guy. And for him to go from hard copy to clicking with a mouse, that was just amazing. And I ran downstairs and told the guy who had been developing the BI system. And I told the story a few times because it really was amazing. I guess you had to be there to see the change in the guy. And it’s been really interesting to see the adoption across the whole firm. The partners have not typically been hands-on managers. They have viewed it as someone else’s problem to run the business or to be worried about the profit. And now all of a sudden, I think, because the performance reporting is so easy to get to, they have a new attitude. It has also helped that we’ve structurally divided the firm into smaller more manageable groups. Mark: It’s been interesting to see how those reports work in your environment. Can you step back a little now and share some of the lessons you’ve learned having done all this. What advice you might want to share with other people...
Interactive Business Report Features - In Style Intelligence, interactive business reports are created with a drag and drop function that lets users pull out various chart and graph options and data fields, placing them on a spreadsheet-like interface. This drag and drop interface is optimal for the fast and seamless development of any interactive reports or visual analytics; no coding is necessary on the end-user's part.
Interactivity Built Into a Report - So again, having that interactivity built into a report, being able to bind the variables to the reports that can change the nature of the data, meaning the data coming back whether you need a subset or a specific orientation will make that report much more flexible and useful for that user. Again, precision is key. Also another thing to note here is what not to show in the report. Although it's tempting to set up a report that contains every piece of information available, omitting information that’s not important to the user allows important information to be accessed more easily. Ensuring that the reports answers specific questions, allowing the user to exclude the information they don’t want is always going to be better because again that saves them work in the end, and ultimately it's going to be better on the database as well. And what I mean is that it's going to perform better. There is going to be less data being extracted, and again it's more precise. So in this process if it's not already pre-configured in the report, allow the user the chance to adjust these things based on date-time range, based on selected variables, based on perhaps selected analyses, and value ranges...
Internationalization of Report Elements - With respect to internationalization report elements certain report elements have a TextID property, which associates the literal text for the element with replacement text stored in the property file, according to the Java resource bundle conventions. You can link the element text contents to the mapping name used in the file for text, textbox, chart, table, and form elements. Although it is possible to set the TextID property on an element programmatically, it is highly recommended that this operation be performed in the Report Designer (Edit → Localization). By default, the resource bundle name is 'SreeBundle', but it is possible to use a different name by setting sree.bundle in the sree.properties file. The individual files in the bundle should end with the locale string specifying which language (and optionally which country) the replacement text is intended for. The inetsoft.report.UserCatalog class can then be used to load the class or property file containing the replacement text and also to perform the replacement. Note that when viewing a report in the Report Portal, the replacement operation is performed automatically...
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Internet Reporting Software - Web-based reporting software offers users flexibility that desktop applications cannot match. InetSoft's Style Intelligence is a zero-client tool for internet reporting. As such, it has many benefits over its desktop-bound competitors. Style Intelligence does not require powerful hardware to run properly. In fact, there is no processor speed, GPU, or RAM requirements to run Style Intelligence. Any Web browser has the capability to run the software. This of course means that mobile browsers are supported by Style Intelligence, as well. Android tablets, iPhones, iPads, and any other device with a browser is fully capable of running Style Intelligence, allowing users access to dashboards and reports on the go. Online applications let users share information with any number of end users, at home or abroad, with minimal labor. They permit users to send reports and dashboards to all those involved, drastically increasing the speed of decision making and, in turn, efficiency of a business...
Internet Reporting Tools - Are you searching for an online reporting solution for your business? InetSoft Technology's Style Intelligence is a complete BI suite that offers reporting and dashboard capabilities in a zero-client Web-based enivronment. Internet reporting tools have many advantages over desktop reporting tools. First and foremost, when a program is hosted online, there are no system requirements. This means the capabilities of the software not bottlenecked by hardware constraints...
Introduction to Executable Reports - The replet is the central concept of InetSoft's server-based active reporting model. A replet is an executable report. It can be parameterized to produce different types of reports. Because a replet can produce completely different reports based on parameter values, it is possible for a reporting system to use only one replet to produce all reports. Obviously, this is not the recommended approach. However, this flexibility enables a replet to represent a family of reports which share a common presentation and business logic code. The replet API is a combination of the declarative and the object oriented programming paradigm. For most common operations, a replet only needs to declare the high level specification of the action and the replet runtime environment automatically performs the appropriate actions to fulfill that specification. For example, a replet never prompts for user parameters. Instead, it declares the parameters it expects and the replet runtime dynamically creates interactive dialogs to get the information from users. The replet API is also fully object oriented. Since a Java class represents each executable report, the same object oriented techniques can be applied to replets...
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In-Memory Database Reporting - There are many advantages that in-memory database reporting has over relying on disk memory. With disk memory, slow query responses often place a burden on the IT department to increase performance speed. If IT fails to provide this improvement, users will often change their approach and stop asking complicated questions of their data. This is one of the reasons why BI is all too often left to the experts; regular users don't have time to spend hours answering business questions. When data is stored in RAM, queries can be answered at a much faster rate. The speed-of-thought response time on complex queries encourage users to ask more questions and create more ad-hoc reports. In-memory architecture is constructed by extracting a large amount of data from a data warehouse or other data source and loading that data into memory. The user only interacts with cached data, not the actual data source...
Is ETL a Reporting Tool? - No, ETL stands or Extract, Transform, and Load, which a process of taking raw data and importing it a data warehouse. A reporting tool is an application for display data that is a database or data warehouse in way that business users can digest and act upon...
Is Tableau a Reporting Tool? - Is Tableau a reporting tool? No, it does not offer paginated, highly formatted reporting like InetSoft does. As a pioneer in reporting, InetSoft later added dashboarding and advanced data visualization. View a demo and try interactive examples...
Issue Tracking Reporting Tool for Jira - Looking for a good solution for Jira dashboard reporting? Create more interactive views of your product development projects and issue tracking. InetSoft's pioneering BI application produces great-looking cloud-based dashboards with an easy-to-use drag-and-drop designer. View a demo and try interactive examples.
J2EE Report Generation - This article continues the explanation of how to take advantage of InetSoft's JSP tag library for integrating reports into your Web application. The next tag needs to be the 'create' tag. This tag specifies the report that will be embedded in the JSP. It also handles the generation of the report and serves all of the resources required by the report. There cannot be any HTML content or JSP tags that generate content before this tag. The create tag handles serving images and static files such as cascading style sheets and JavaScript files. If there is any content before this tag, it will be included in the resource file and will corrupt it. If you require that there be content before the create tag, you must specify the resourceUri attribute. This attribute should be set to the URL of a Servlet Repository deployed in the same web application. The Servlet Repository and the JSP tag library share the same resources and report server, so there is very little additional overhead. In WebLogic, there also cannot be any characters (i.e., new lines) outside of JSP tags before the create tag. WebLogic will print these characters to the output stream, corrupting the image file. Setting the resourceUri attribute will solve this problem...
Jira Reporting Tool - Looking for a good solution for Jira dashboard reporting? Create more interactive views of your product development projects and issue tracking. InetSoft's pioneering BI application produces great-looking cloud-based dashboards with an easy-to-use drag-and-drop designer. View a demo and try interactive examples.
JSP Tags for Embedding Reports - A report can be embedded in a Java Server Page (JSP) by using the custom tag library provided with this software. This integration approach provides maximum flexibility with minimal configuration. To start using the Style Intelligence JSP tags, you have to place bisuite_pro.jar and etools.jar in the WEB-INF/lib directory of your web application. Then you will need to include the tag library definition in your web application descriptor, web.xml, which is located in the WEB-INF directory of your web application. Simply add the following XML content to the file. If your registry directory is a directory other than the WEB-INF/classes directory, you will need to include an initialization parameter as well. The value of this parameter is the same as the one you would use to set up the Servlet Repository. In certain application servers, it is impossible to serve binary data through a JSP. The resources will fail to load and an exception will appear. To avoid this, a servlet, inetsoft.sree.web.jsp.ResourceServlet, is provided to serve binary resources. If you encounter this problem, register the servlet and specify the servlet's URI in the resourceUri attribute of the sree:create tag...
Java API-Based Printing - First we will address printing tables in reports. Using a very simple example we will describe the process for generating printed output containing a table. The Previewer is a frame component that can be used to preview a report. The previewer is Java2 based and provides support for Java2 printing API. In this chapter we will also discuss table styles. We also describe the use of the various table adapters, which allow for the printing of table based components or data structures automatically. Table adapters also completely eliminate the need for an application to manually setup the table in a report. There are two implementations for a ReportSheet: a StyleSheet or a TabularSheet. The StyleSheet represents the flow based layout model and a TabularSheet represents the tabular grid based layout model. The next step is to cast the ReportSheet to a TabularSheet or a StyleSheet depending on whether you wish to have a tabular or flow based layout method...
Java2D Based Print Previewer - It is often desirable to allow users to preview what is going to be printed before actually sending it to the printer. The previewing capability has become standard on most applications. Style Intelligence has built-in support for easily adding previewing to an application. A Java2 based previewer provides support for Java2 printing API. The PreviewView interface defines the complete API for the previewer classes. Try not to use the previewer classes directly. All preview-related functions should be accessed through the PreviewView interface. The Java2D API introduced in Java2 added another set of classes for performing printing. To support this new printing API in Java2, we use the inetsoft.report.j2d package, Previewer2D. The Previewer2D class is Swing based. It fully implements the API defined in the PreviewView class. A previewer can be created in a number of ways. The preferred method is through the Previewer.createPreviewer() method. Once a previewer is created and populated, simply show the window as any other window...
Java-Based Report Viewer - InetSoft makes a Java-based reporting server application that requires only a browser to view interactive reports. InetSoft's reporting solution is designed to produce interactive information access. Its built-in support of distributed two-stage event handling allows report developers to add very sophisticated interactivity to reports. Key benefits include the ability to deliver professional, high fidelity presentation, transform and manipulate raw data, embed business logic with scripting. and enhance manageability and agility...
Java Report Writer - Information for those looking for Java-based reporting software that is integration-ready and enables sophisticated production reports, why to evaluate InetSoft's Style Report...