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GUI Report Writing
Georg Morsing
SAS Institute
The Business User of today
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Windows GUI standard
Office Suites
Integrated solutions
Excel
PowerPoint
Word
Business Reporting
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The Business Users
needs, knowledge, and experience
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Needs to do “Money” reports
Query data in the DBMS
No SAS knowledge
No database knowledge
Has Windows experience
Uses spreadsheets
Business Reporting
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Mission statement
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Solve the Business User’s reporting
problem integrated in MS Office.
Worldwide market leader in GUI
Business Reporting.
Business Reporting
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The Report situation today
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Spreadsheets
 Not designed for reporting
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Isolated report solution
 New working routines
 Lack of integration
Business Reporting
Users solves their report needs with:
The Business process today
First get data
 Query, manage, aggregate
 Often limited to SQL
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Then report it
 Long response times
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Using non intelligent Client/Server
Business Reporting
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Reengineering the Report process
Report centric model.
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Let the user concentrate on the report
design, we will take care of providing
data.
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Reuse the well known MS office interface
in the entire business report process.
Business Reporting
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Reengineering the Report process
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Windows 95 (MS Office)
WYSIWYG
Business Intelligent
Report centric
Free format report building
Draw your report before applying data
Built in client/server technology
Business Reporting
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Windows 95 design
Load one window directly from the
Desktop
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Command driven interface
Large/small toolbars
Document centric model
Customizable interface
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Business Reporting
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The Workplace
Work Area
Viewers: Design, Screen, Page
Business Reporting
Toolbars
Report Gallery
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Quick access to most used reports
Learning tool
Industry standard
Saved report templates using virtual
data
Can be modified and extended
A Wizard to guide the user
Business Reporting
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Adding data to the Report.
Report centric model
Business
report
Data
Warehouse
Business
Intelligence
layer
Personnel
data
Business Reporting
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Business Intelligence
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Business Language / calculations
Display data in a “Business World”
terminology
Filter and organize data
Business Reporting
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Your benefits
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Reduced learning time
Report Gallery
Business Intelligence layer
Client/Server
Concentrate on designing reports
Business Reporting
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