Is the system capable of calculating profit too?
From the sales performance report, I didn't see a profit column. So is it safe to say Virto Commerce doesn't cater for profit reporting?
You can actually create your own report quite easily. Simply download and open the report file in report designer, modify values and sql command used to generate report and upload it to the server. The process is described here: http://docs.virtocommerce.com/display/vc1devguide/Working+with+Reporting+system
The other question is more business question on how the profit is calculated. You can for instance save the Cost price for each item in the order and then use that cost for reporting. It will require customization to the checkout process.
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We have a bunch of legacy tableau reports which we have published on the tableau server. We are planning to embed it onto a Drupal web page as well as internal Sharepoint site. The end users/agencies who need to view the report interactively are not part of our organization. I wanted to check if each of these end users will need any special license to view the reports and interact with it for example apply some filter in the report.
To give a gist of requirements we have our data warehouse built on Azure SQL. Using this data we need to develop a metric based report for each of the agencies that we work with. We need to then share it with them by embedding this report on a Drupal site where each agency has their separate login and they need to view metrics only specific to them.
We are non-profit and want to minimize the cost. If not Tableau is there any other effective way or any other BI tool which we can use.
Every person who uses Tableau needs a license (and MFA is coming this year to enforce that).
For end users outside your firewall, you will need the relevant firewall settings to allow the users to connect.
It might be more cost-effective to purchase Tableau Online (this is different to Tableau Server) licenses to allow them to get access to their workbooks.
Either way, you can embed dashboards in Drupal, WordPress, whatever but you must have a Tableau user license to login and use them (the other option is a Tableau Server Core license, but if you want to minimise cost this is probably not a viable option)
Good night, sorry for my question but I haven't found too much information about it.
I'm designing some reports to my work (for accounting) and I'm forced to use Crystal Reports with VS2005 however I have a problem because I need to use dynamic information, I have two important views the first one give me general data like: Account ID, Account Name, Description, Opening Balance, Charges, Deposits, Ending Balance, Code Month.
In next query I need to use each Account ID because I'll get its Details (if they have data) and it gives information like: Date, Policy ID, Description, Charges, Deposits, Code Month.
My problem is not get information because the DBA gave me both views, my problem is that I don't know how can I add those views in a Crystal Report and show their information Dynamic. Because first query is going to give all general data and with each value I need show their details (if they have). Maybe the next draw could give you and idea what I'm talking. Thank you very much if any of you have any example (not necessary about my topic, just with two queries) I'll be very happy.
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Sorry because I haven't given you any code but I just have those two views and I don't know how to create the dynamic report. I have tried to find information and I couldn't.
one option is to link the views in database expert, If this is not possible then use sub report in crystal report where use 1st view in main report and 2nd view in sub report.
Link the views and use grouping for accounts. Subreports are an option too but the report will be slower
I have been working with Pentaho for the last few days. I have been able to setup the Pentaho Report Designer to generate a sample report by follow their documentation. Then I follow this article http://www.robertomarchetto.com/www/how_to_use_pentaho_report_designer_tutorial and managed to export the report to Pentaho BI server.
All I don't understand is Pentaho workflow. What should be the process I should follow which means what's the purpose of exporting the export to Pentaho BI server? Why there is a Data Integration tool? Why there is a BI sever when I can export the report from the Designer tool?
Requirement
All I want to do is retrieve the data from the MYSQL DB. Put them into a data-mart. Then from the data-mart generate a report.(According to what I have read, creating a data mart is the efficient way).
How can I get it done?
Pentaho Data Integration can be used to make this report generation automated.
In report designer you will be passing a parameter or set of parameters to generate a single report output.
With Data integration you can generate the reports for different set of parameters. for eg: if reports are generated on daily basis, we can make it automated for the whole month, so that there is no need of generating reports daily and manually.
And using the Pentaho Business Intelligence server we can make all these operations scheduled.
To generate Data/Table(Fact tables/dimension table) in MYSQL DB From difference source like files/different DB - Data Integration tool comes in to picture .
To create Schema on top of Fact tables - Mondrian tool
To handle user/roles on top of created cubes -Meta data editor
To create simple reports on top of small tables - Report Designer
For sequential Execution (at a go) usage of DI jobs/transformation , Reports, Java script - Design Studio
thanks to user surya.thanuri # forums.pentaho.com
The Data Integration tool is mostly for ETL, it's a separate tool and you can ignore it unless you are doing complex analysis of data from multiple dissimilar data sources. You don't need to 'export' reports to the pentaho server, you can write them directly to a directory then refresh the repository from inside the Pentaho web application. Exporting them is just one workflow technique.
You're going to find that there are about a dozen ways to do any one thing with Pentaho. For instance I use the CDA datasources with my reports vice placing the sql code inside my report. Alternatively you can link up to a Data Integration server to execute the Data Integration scripts to view a result set.
Just to answer your datamart question. In general a datamart should probably be supported by either the Data Integration tool (depending on your situation I don't exactly recommend this) or database functions/replication streams (recommended).
Just to hazard a guess, it sounds like someone tossed you a project saying: We need a BI system, here's the database where the data is stored, here are the reports we're already getting. X looked at Pentaho and liked it. You should use that.
First thing you need to do is understand the shape of the data, volume, tables, interrelations. Figure out what the real questions they want to answer are. Determine whether they need real time reporting, etc..etc. Just getting the datamart together itself, if you even need one, can take quite awhile. I think you may have jumped the gun on Pentaho itself.
thanks to user flamierd # forums.pentaho.com
Is it correct in my understanding that we can build SSAS cubes sourcing from the transaction Systems? I meant the not the live but copy of the Live.
I'm trying to see if there is any scope to address few reporting needs without the need to build a traditional Data Warehouse and then build cubes on top of the data warehouse, instead build cubes to do Financial monthly aggregated reporting needs sourcing from backup copy of the Transaction systems.
Alternatively, if you have any better way to proceed please suggest.
Regards,
KK
You can create a set of views on top of you transactional system tables and then build your SSAS cubes ontop of those views. This would be less effort than creating a fully fledged datawarehouse.
I am a data warehouse developer (and therefore believe in cubes), but not every reporting solution warrants the cost of building a cube. If your short to medium term reporting requirements are fixed and you don't have users requiring data to be sliced differently each week, then a series of fixed reports may suffice.
You can create a series of SQL Server Reporting Services reports (or extract to Excel) either directly against your copied transactional data, or against a series of summarised tables that are created periodically. If you decide to utilise a series of pre-formatted reporting tables, try to create tables that cover multiple similar reports (rather than 1 monthly report table = 1 report) for ease of ongoing maintenance.
There are many other important aspects to this that you may need to consider first. Like how busy is the transaction system, what is the size of the data, concurrency and availability issues etc.
It is absolutely fine to have a copy of your live data and then build a report on the top of it. Bear in mind that the data you see in the report will not be the latest and there will be a latency factor depending on the frequency of your data pull.
I have a requirement and I am not sure if I should use Analysis services or Reporting services or some other technique.
My client wants to show special deals from a database on their online website. They want to target users, i.e. if user is from UK; show deals for UK and in Pound. if user is from Canada; show deals for Canada and in canadian dollar etc.
Their database has multiple tables loaded with 1 to 2 million records in each table. Each table is for a different category of products and has a currency and a Country column to filter. I cannot restructure their schema as they have huge amount of development done to integrate with various buisness applications.
I need a solution which involves datawarehouse, can fetch data quickly and cache it for next 12 or 24 hours (Do not want to cache on web server). I do not have much experience in Analysis and Reporting services so I need your solution/suggestion and anything you can share from your good or bad experiences.
Analysis services is not what you want here: you do not need cubes that summerize info.
Nor is reporting services: you will want to display your data in plain HTML.
I would just query the existing data and display that data. If performance becomes an issue you could run an SSIS job every 12 hours to extract data to a specific database you created for this application. But consider tweaking your indexes first.