1. NCS Circulation Reporting - A Review Of Reporting Options

2. Reporting | Options Available
Review of Different Reporting Options
Circulation Audit Reporting
InSight Business Intelligence
External Reporting using ODBC
Results Reporting
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3. Reporting | Circulation
Why use Standard Reporting?
Financial Reporting
Accounting Journals
Audit – Setup Changes, AAM
Distribution Documents
Draw Journals
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4. Reporting | Circulation
Audit Reporting – Digital Access
Digital Audit
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5. Reporting | Circulation
Accounting Journals
Charges Journal
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6. Reporting | Circulation
What Circulation Reports are NOT designed to support…
Business Intelligence
Custom Report Designs
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7. Reporting | InSight Why Use InSight? Business Intelligence
Trending and Analysis
Spot what is going well
Spot areas for improvement
Create reports on-the-fly
Distribute to non-technical users
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8. Reporting | InSight What InSight is NOT designed to support…
Not designed for real-time access to Circulation Database
Not intended to fully replicate the Circulation Database
Not designed for Audit Reporting (like AAM)
Not structured for billing documents (invoices, renewals)
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9. Reporting | InSight InSight Reporting – Digital Access
Digital Access Trending and Analysis
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10. Reporting | InSight InSight Reporting – Digital Access
Retention – A look at Falloff
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11. Reporting | InSight InSight Reporting – Digital Access
Why are subscribers are stopping
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12. Reporting | InSight InSight Reporting – Financial Data
Revenue by Rate Code
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13. Reporting | InSight InSight Reporting – Exports & Reports
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14. Reporting | InSight InSight Reporting – Email Report to Casual Users
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15. Reporting | ODBC External Reporting
Use your external reporting system to access data from the Circulation Database.
Crystal Reports
Custom Extracts (ex. Mather)
Custom SQL/Query
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16. Reporting | ODBC Getting Started with ODBC
Open a Support Case and request the ODBC driver.
NCS provides driver and Progress ODBC client to for customer to Install
Customer install and configure ODBC Client
Requires a detailed understanding of tables and table relations.
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17. Reporting | Results What is Results best used for?
Simple Lists, Queries and Reports
Totals and Sub-Totals
Supports and/or Logic
Results is not designed to…
Complex Reporting (Unearned Revenue)
‘Find First’ and ‘Not Available’ checks
Multiple Inquiries into the same database table
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18. Reporting | Results
Simple List
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19. Reporting | Results
And / Or Logic
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20. Reporting | Results
Totals & Sub-Totals
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21. Reporting | Results Difference between Character and Graphical Results
Feature
CHARACTER (CHUI)
GRAPHICAL (GUI)
Table Limit 5
No Limit
Costed Add-On No
Yes (Per User Cost)
Save the program (.p)
Yes (Ability to add to custom Menu)
NOTE: Results requires basic table structure knowledge
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