Manage Reports application, as mentioned before is used for creation and consumption of reports using the available runtime environments.
Here as well, filtering options, as search, editing status, runtime environment and state are available. Additional filters are available in Adapt Filters button.
Similarly as in Manage Pages, the following attributes are available on the detailed screen of the Manage Reports application:
- Runtime Environment: Displays the environment being used upon creating a report. Choosing the linked runtime environment ID directs you to the runtime environment's General Information screen.
- Report*: Allows you to create a report name with up to 29 characters and no space in between.
- Description: It is composed of a text with up to 200 characters that provides a description of the report.
- Transport Report: If you mark the Transport Report checkbox, the system allows you to transport a report and its content in a container. If you leave the Transport Report checkbox blank, the system does not transport any reports to a container.
- State: Allows you to set the status of the report to "Active" or "Inactive". Note By default, the created report is set to "Inactive" until you have completely configured the report and set the status to "Active".
- Reader Team: Specifies the team authorized to view a report (read-only access).
- Writer Team: Specifies the team authorized to edit and update a report in an environment.
- Show Report: Allows you to configure and maintain the context of the Report tab document.
- Event Logs: Indicates the number of event logs created in Manage Reports. Choosing the linked number directs you to the list of event logs within the application Manage Event Logs.
- Changed At: Provides information such as date and time on which the report was last updated.
Lets access report which was created for Profitability and Cost Management sample content. Using this report, different KPIs and results are represented in nice, visualized manner.
On the top we can see different tabs which actually represent different pages connected to our report. All these tabs are actually pages created in Manage Pages applications and connected to this report. One page can be connected to several reports, and removing/deleting page from report will not delete page from Manage Pages applications, it will just remove it from that specific Report.
In the Overview Page there is different information about relevant KPIs provided, as Revenue per product, Cost of Sales, Gross Profit, Operating Expenses and Net Profit.
Below we can see different graphs showing which product and services have made impact on profit results independently.
First graph is showing profitability of products and services per country/region. Second graph is showing profitability per channel. Third one shows profit per period (on a quarterly basis) and the last one is showing an impact of each product/service on profit results independently.
In Allocation page, results of different allocations are represented. Again, here, you can see that we can add text, different images/graphs in our report.
In Allocation page three different allocation results are shown:
- P&L accounts are assigned to resources, to prepare a pool of resources to be consumed by various activities. In the example below, all salary costs are pooled into three different resources: High, Medium and Low salary, to allow for more accurate allocation of salary costs to the relevant activities.
- All activities related to the production of products and provision of services are identified and the relationship between resources and activities is reflected in the resource drivers. The example below shows how the three different salary resources are consumed by different activities.
- The relationship between activities and products is established and reflected in the activity drivers. The example below shows how much of the activities are performed in the production of the three different products.
There is also a Page providing information about Cost and Expenses Analysis. There are cost of sales per product, Cost of sales per period, Operating Expenses per product, Operating expenses per period…
Plan and forecast page compares calculated operation results for standard and alternate scenarios in the plan data. As we are speaking now, functionality for What-if analysis and simulations is being developed, if not already released.