Business Reporting

What is business reporting?

Many people in business are already familiar with reports. For example, a financial controller may review a Statement of Profit or Loss for the last quarter, a collections officer may review an accounts receivable ageing report, or a payroll officer may review outstanding annual leave entitlements for staff.

Business reporting is the transformation of raw data into a formatted, human-readable form to support users and assist them with their decision making. Business reports can exist in a few forms, such as traditional print-outs, interactive reports and dashboards.

Why would I need a business reporting solution?

Many software products ship with standard reports which have little or no customisation capabilities. While these reports may serve most of your reporting needs, you may have specific requirements which can only be met through time-consuming, manual data manipulation in a spreadsheet. Having a business reporting solution developed will allow you to generate these critical reports in seconds. This will lead to a significant reduction in labour costs and an increase in the quality of your reports.

Looking for an SQL Report Writer?

Many business applications use SQL (Structured Query Language) databases to store business data. Examples of database systems include:

  • Microsoft SQL Server

  • Oracle

  • MySQL

  • Microsoft Access

  • Microsoft Visual Fox Pro

  • Paradox

  • PostgreSQL

If your business uses an SQL database, you can have your reports developed so they can be generated automatically. We provide SQL Report Writing services to extract your valuable business data into reports which are tailored for your business.

Benefits of SQL Report Writing

Our clients have benefited from SQL Report Writing in the following ways:

Time savings
Staff no longer need to spend hours per week collating reports in Microsoft Excel.

Speed
SQL reports can be run in seconds

No errors
When reports are prepared manually, there's always the risk that the user will miss something or set up incorrect formulas.

Easily extract complex data
When you have data in multiple tables, it's difficult to bring it all together manually because you have to use error-prone lookups.

Easily sort, group and filter data
These are powerful features which enhance report quality by giving the user the most relevant information.

CASE STUDY

Joe's Petroleum

Joe operates a large service station located on one of Sydney's busiest highways.

The service station has a fuel management system which records fuel sales, but unfortunately it has very limited reporting capabilities. Analysing fuel sales is critical for demand forecasting, so Joe had to resort to time consuming data manipulation in Excel to extract the information he required.

Joe contacted EYB Solutions for assistance, and a fuel sales report which automatically extracts and formats the data from the fuel system was developed. Not only did this save Joe hours of work per week, he also got some advanced features such as a real-time dashboard, graphs and more detailed fuel statistics.

With this business reporting solution, Joe has slashed the cost of his inventory management, improved fuel demand forecasting and increased his understanding of sales trends in the market.

Feel free to contact us for any enquiries. We provide a free initial consultation.