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Reporting System: Everything You Need to Know

FineReport

It is composed of three functional parts: the underlying data, data analysis, and data presentation. The underlying data is in charge of data management, covering data collection, ETL, building a data warehouse, etc.

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Enterprise Reporting: The 2020’s Comprehensive Guide

FineReport

According to the process from data to knowledge, the functional architecture of a general enterprise reporting system is shown below:It is divided into three functional levels: the underlying data, data analysis, and data presentation.

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What is business intelligence? Transforming data into business insights

CIO Business Intelligence

BI focuses on descriptive analytics, data collection, data storage, knowledge management, and data analysis to evaluate past business data and better understand currently known information. Whereas BI studies historical data to guide business decision-making, business analytics is about looking forward.

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Business Intelligence Solutions: Every Thing You Need to Know

FineReport

Originally, Excel has always been the “solution” for various reporting and data needs. However, along with the diffusion of digital technology, the amount of data is getting larger and larger, and data collection and cleaning work have become more and more time-consuming. BI software solutions (by FineReport).

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Crystal Reports: Alternatives and Comparison with FineReport

FineReport

Compared to reporting tools, they can realize data forecast thanks to OLAP analysis and data mining technologies. Comparison between Crystal Reports and FineReport- Data Collection . Crystal Report focuses on the data display. FineReport supports writing data back to the database via web forms.

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Welcome To The Digital Age: BI Meets Social Media

Smart Data Collective

Well, it is – to the ones that are 100% familiar with it – and it involves the use of various data sources, including internal data from company databases, as well as external data, to generate insights, identify trends, and support strategic planning. In the 1990s, OLAP tools allowed multidimensional data analysis.

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What Is Embedded Analytics?

Jet Global

Users Want to Help Themselves Data mining is no longer confined to the research department. Today, every professional has the power to be a “data expert.” Let’s just give our customers access to the data. You’ve settled for becoming a data collection tool rather than adding value to your product.