
At its core, the process of designing reports hasn’t changed substantially in the past 15 years.
The report designer lays out report objects, which contain data from a known data source, in a
design application such as Business Objects Reports or Microsoft Access. He or she then tests
report execution, verifies the accuracy of the results, and distributes the report to the target
audience.
Sure, there are enough differences between design applications to mean that the designer
must become familiar with each particular environment. However, there’s enough crossover
functionality to make this learning curve small. For example, the SUM function is the same in
Business Objects Reports as it is in Microsoft Access as it is in Structured Query Language (SQL).
Details
- Publication Date
- Nov 24, 2013
- Language
- English
- Category
- Computers & Technology
- Copyright
- All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
- Contributors
- By (author): Anders Hansen
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