New Reporting Strategy
The new ESR Reporting Strategy outlines the improvements that are being made to the ESR reporting service - improvements that are designed to meet the needs of the ESR user community both now and in the future. The strategy not only details these improvements and additions to ESR Business Intelligence (ESR BI) but also supports our migration from Oracle Discoverer (following the confirmation that Oracle is withdrawing support for this product).
Supporting a reliable and stable solution
Central to the strategy is an upgrade of the infrastructure that underpins the ESR BI service, ensuring it remains resilient, reduces any downtime and remains fit for purpose as the primary reporting service for ESR going forward.
Supporting your data needs
With the large amount of data that is currently available in Discoverer, users are particularly interested in data availability within ESR BI. The reporting strategy includes a comprehensive review of the Discoverer End User Layer (EUL) ensuring that comparable capability will exist in ESR BI to allow local reports to be replicated. In addition, the strategy will deliver a more comprehensive suite of data items in a way that makes reporting across different subject areas easier; ensuring that the widest ranging set of reports can be made available within ESR BI.
Supporting the mobile workforce
Reporting information is now needed beyond the confines of the desktop. Enabling ESR BI over the internet for Managers and for ESR’s core user community, together with access via mobile devices such as tablets will improve the usability of BI and make access to data much quicker and easier.
The major changes outlined in the strategy include:
- New and updated subject areas
- New functions such as alerting, scheduling and sharing with individual users
- Replication of Discoverer reports into ESR BI
- Mobile access
- Access to ESR BI over the internet
- Ability to combine ESR data with external data
- Access to real time or near-real time data from ESR BI
- Comprehensive Audit reporting
Further details are available in the ESR Reporting Strategy Video available here (Kbase login required)