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A Guide To The Top 14 Types Of Reports With Examples Of When To Use Them

datapine

Here, we’re going to explore the 14 most common types of reports in business and provide some examples of when to use them to your brand-boosting advantage. In addition, we will see how online dashboards have overthrown the static nature of classic reports and given way to a much faster, more interactive way of working with data.

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BusinessObjects Enjoying the Summer of Surprise Winners

Paul Blogs on BI

There are no conversion tools to convert BusinessObjects reports to another BI tool. The only viable way to replace BusinessObjects reports and dashboards is to re-create them in the new tool. Two clients recently told me they were quoted $500,000 to reproduce 1 Universe with 50 Webi reports in PowerBI.

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Navigating Data Entities, BYOD, and Data Lakes in Microsoft Dynamics

Jet Global

Now, instead of making a direct call to the underlying database to retrieve information, a report must query a so-called “data entity” instead. Each data entity provides an abstract representation of business objects within the database, such as, customers, general ledger accounts, or purchase orders.