Describing Administrator, Standard and Custom Reports

The LMS enables administrators to run various reports on many aspects of training. In addition, a customer can customize their reports and queries using our Report Designer tool. These custom reports may be added to and run from the Reports menu. Certain reports can be restricted from being run during designated hours. This helps ensure that large report jobs are not run during peak times, which could impact system performance.

The reporting system contains over 70 standard reports from the administrator interface. Each report menu gives options for grouping and sorting output in various ways.

Administrators can save the entered criteria for a report and execute it on demand at another time. When the administrator executes the saved report later, the system displays the standard report criteria form with the saved criteria. Reports can also be set up to run as a scheduled and recurring event. Reports may also be scheduled to run remotely, on a recurring basis, and configured for FTP delivery or emailed to one recipient. Aside from these report configurations, Standard Reports can be customized (using SAP SuccessFactors Report Designer) to include additional fields and data.

SAP SuccessFactors allows you to create custom reports using SAP SuccessFactors Report Designer (Powered by BIRT), a free application not built into the SAP SuccessFactors Administration Interface.

Administrators with the appropriate permissions may export reports to customize them in SAP SuccessFactors Report Designer and re-import them.

Reports may also be built from scratch using SAP SuccessFactors Report Designer and imported into SAP SuccessFactors Learning. Reports are all available in the Reports Dashboard depending upon the security domain access (Standard and Custom Reports are all located in the same searchable menu). When new reports are imported into SAP SuccessFactors Learning, permissions for administrators are automatically created so access to that specific report can be completely controlled through administrator roles.