Let's Get Visual - The Art of Report Design

Types of report design:
Operational Reporting
Strategic Analytic Reporting
Tactical Analytic

Categories of Reports:
Prepared Reports
User Driven - write their own reports

Types:
Enterprise Portals & Dashboards
Department or self created.

Principles of Report Design (see the slide):


Dashboards & Sparklines

Sparklines - charts with no cluttered details, scales or labels.

Report Parts - IT can create a gallery of report parts that novice users can drop on the reports and not have any access to the DB.

Report Builder 3.0 is now available and the users can use shared DataSets we should do some more research to see if we can make this available to our users (Jerry Strub).

Location:TechEd 2011