BristolReport: Management Reporting Made Easy

BristolReport^TM is the world's first Desktop Publishing tool specifically designed for the multidimensional server. Multidimensional servers are designed and optimised for the ad hoc analysis of data on the screen, but often lack the capability to produce high quality reports. BristolReport has been designed specifically to meet this critical requirement, the production of presentation quality output directly from your Oracle Express applications.

BristolReport^TM is a new and unique product, a report generator that has been developed with multidimensional data servers such as Oracle Express in mind.

The Visual Designer

BristolReport^TM enables you to design reports visually on the screen by positioning objects precisely on a representation of the printed page. The designer can interactively refine the properties of each object, such as its font, frame style, colour, number of decimal places, scale and orientation. The report can be previewed at any time, allowing the designer instantly to see exactly how the report will look when it is printed. In this way you can very quickly achieve the perfect result.

Web Publisher

You can use the web publisher ...

A Wide Variety of Objects

Creating a report is easy. You simply drag and drop objects such as Tables, Graphs, Expressions or Measures, Text and Images. You are in complete control of positioning, alignment, page breaks and borders.

Because BristolReport^TM understands the multidimensional nature of your data, it automatically displays the report in the correct format.

Standard Windows ease of use

BristolReport^TM runs under Windows 3.11, Windows 95 and Windows NT. Features such as landscape/portrait orientation, print preview, copies/collate, context menus and dialog boxes for selecting colours and fonts are exactly as you would expect them to be. This ensures that BristolReport^TM is an even more productive environment for you.

Performance and Reliability

Impressive performance and solid reliability are assured by BristolReport's^TM dynamic access to the multidimensional server. It does not require temporary storage or any new data structures and fetches only the data it needs to produce the report.

Dynamic Reports

New data and changed reporting structures are automatically reflected in the report.

Highlighting exceptions using colours, fonts and shading is easy with BristolReport^TM. For example, you may wish to highlight in green sales, which are more than five per cent above budget.

A Natural Fit

Using the latest 'thin client' technology, you can install BristolReport^TM directly onto any Oracle Express application, without any changes or additions to the data.

Summary of Benefits

BristolReport^TM adds value to your investment in Express Technology, working against ANY Express data structures (including Oracle Financial Analyzer, Sales Analyzer, Express Objects, Express EIS, FCRS, and any bespoke application). The benefits of using BristolReport to produce your complex printed output from Express include:

Increased Quality

	Produce exactly what you want
	Presentation quality printed output
	Data Integrity - direct access to Express
	ö No more dangerous cut/paste to spreadsheets/word processors
	ö Only one version of the truth
	Custom processing
	ö Customised pre and post processes
	ö Dynamic run-time user selections
	Flexibility and control
	ö Place any object anywhere or align with others
	Works directly on the data
	ö Reports always up to date
	ö Automatic inclusion of new/changed dimension values

Reduced Cost + Increased Productivity

	Visual Development / Object Oriented
	Copy and paste formatted objects
	Uses SNAPI (Express Structured N-dimensional Application Programming Interface)
	ö No more DDE code to write and maintain
	ö No more Spreadsheet Macros to code and maintain
	Thin Client - no additional layers / configuration
	ö Just install BristolReport on your PC, attach to Express and start BristolReporting
	Uses the Windows printer manager
	ö No need for escape codes
	ö Use any printer
	Distribute report templates via Email