Business Intelligence

Presentation on topic of Common

Report Layout Types……

Presented to:- Presented by:-

Ms. Sunaina Meenu Bansal
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 What is report…..
 Report means collecting and presenting
data so that it can be analyzed.
 When we talk about reporting in business
intelligence(BI), we are talking about two
things.
 One is reporting strictly defined.
 The other is “reporting” take in a more
general meaning.
 What is report cont….
 In the first case, report is the art of
collecting data from various data sourced
and presenting it to the users in a way
that is understandable and ready to be
analyzed.
 In second, report means presenting data
and information. It allows users to both
see and understand the data, as well as
act on it.
 Types of common report
layouts…
There are five types of common report
layouts:-
 Tabular reports
 Matrix reports
 List reports
 Chart reports
 Gauge reports
 Let us discuss….
1) Tabular reports:-
Tabular reports display information
from a relational database in a column
and row format. A tabular report has
header and fotter, and repeating detail
rows.
Data can be grouped on various fields.
Each group can have its own header,
footer, breaks and subtotal.
It display details of all products under
For Example…
2) Matrix reports:-
 A matrix, cross-tab, or pivot report
aggregates data along the x-axis and y-axis
of a grid to form a summarized table.
Unlike tabular reports columns, matrix
report columns are not static but are
based on group values.
 A matrix report that display the total
sales of products under each
SubCategory and Category.
 For Example….
Category Sub- Jan Feb March Total
Category

Accessori Helmets 3371.1455 4360.2840 3923.6094 11655.038

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Pumps 635.6820 467.7660 659.6700 1763.1180

Lock 720.0000 735.0000 750.0000 2205.0000

Subcatoge 4726.8275 5563.0500 5333.2794 15623.156

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Difference between tabular
reports and matrix report…..
 Tabular report:-
You can call this report detail report,
where we simple use some fields to
display data in tabular format.

 Matrix report:-
This type of reports are used to showed
summarized data. Some people call them
Pivot Table or Cross Tab reports. Matrix
reports are different from tabular as
3) List reports:-
 A list report has a single, rectangular
details area that reports for every record
or group value in the underlying data set.
 Its main purpose is to contain other
related data regions and report items and
to repeat them for a group of values.
 There are two Category groups( Clothing
and Bikes) in this list report.
 For Example….
Clothing

Categor Sub-Cat Jan Feb Mar Total

y
Clothing Jerseys 1200 600 2000 3800

Gloves 4521 7854 2365 14740

Caps 4523 6589 3256 14368

Sub-Cat 10244 15043 7621 32908

Total

Category- 10244 15043 7621 32908

total
 Example 2……
Bikes
Categor Sub-Cat Jan Feb March Total
y

Bikes Road 4521 6589 3245 14355

Bikes

Mountain 7854 9856 6523 24233

Bikes

Sub-Cat 12375 16445 9768 48588

Total

Cat- Total 12375 16445 9768 48588

4) Chart reports:-

 Chart reports provide a visual context for

a lot of difficult kinds of data. There are
several chart forms that can be used in
the chart reports such as bar chart, line
chart, pie chart etc.
 It depicts a chart report of the total sales
amount for each product in each
Category and SubCategory.
For Example….
5) Gauge reports:- What is
Gauge ?..

 Gauge is one of popular data region of

reporting services that acts like a
measuring instrument in the report. It
makes report more interactive and helps
the business users to understand the data
more easily.
For Example…
Gauge report:-
 Gauge reports depicts values against a
certain threshold.
 There are three color zones indicated on
the gauge: red, amber and green.
 Red depicts “ immediate attention
required”.
 Amber depicts “cause for concern but
not urgent”.
 Green depicts “ things are going good”.
For example…
 Depicts a gauge report of some
products….

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 References:-

 R.N. Prasad, Seema Acharya,

Fundamentals
Of Business Analytics, Wiley India Pvt.Ltd.
 www.techbrothersit.com
 https://en.m.wikipedia.com
 www.google.com