Report Services - .build .secure .distribute

Getting information to the people who need it is critical to the survival of any business. Today, businesses collect and store mountains of information in corporate databases but continue to struggle with getting data to their employees, customers, and suppliers. Stoneware's Report Builder allows any organization to quickly build, secure, and deploy custom reports from any data source inside the organization.

Build

Stoneware's Report Builder is a graphical web-based tool that allows organizations to build dynamic data driven reports. With Stoneware's Report Builder organizations can quickly and easily build reports that pull live data from their corporate databases and display the information in easily accessible formats such as HTML, XML, PDF, Excel, and Graph (Pie, Bar, Scatter, Line, etc. ) formats. Within minutes of installing Report Services, organizations can be distributing business-critical reports to the people who need it; anytime, anywhere.

• Web-based GUI builder supports both Microsoft IE and Firefox
• Create HTML, Excel, XML, PDF, Line, Bar, Pie, Grid, Speedometer, Thermometer, and Mobile Layouts
• Prompt Builder for creating dynamic reports that prompt for user input before running
• Multi-level drilldown report capabilities
• Schema Browsers
• Function Builder adds business logic to reports
• Supports any ODBC/JDBC database

Secure

Once a report is created the job is not finished. Many organizations struggle to find ways in which they can secure the reports they create. Often assigning reports to their employees, customers, and partners requires the purchase of third-party security products. With Stoneware's Report Services, organizations can easily secure any report based on a user's identity or organizational role. Report Services provides organizations with the peace of mind that all critical business information is encrypted and delivered only to the user(s) that need to see it.

• Encrypt all reports over SSL (Secure Socket Layer)
• Deliver reports using Role-based Access Control (RBAC)
• Single Sign-on
• Two-factor Authentication with Tokens, USB Keys, or BioPassword
• Integrate “Identity” to secure record-level data within a report

Executive Dashboards

Dashboards have become a critical business tool for corporate executives and managers that wish to see a summary of their business operations.

Dashboards provide a consolidated view of summary reports that can be reviewed with just a quick glance. Stoneware's Report Services provides webNetwork administrators with the ability to create an "Executive Dashboard" of reports that can be distributed to customers, executives, managers, and key decision makers. With an Executive Dashboard at their fingertips, corporate managers will be able to react quickly and make better business decisions in a rapidly changing business environment.

• Executive Dashboard provides common web interface for viewing key business indicators
• Knowledge workers can quickly drilldown into detailed reports from the executive dashboard
• Component Wizard allows report editors to quickly build and deploy executive dashboards in minutes

Identity

Stoneware's Report Services leverages an organization's investment in Identity Management to build, secure, and distribute critical business information to the people who need it. Report Services has uniquely joined a user's directory service identity with the organization's backend databases to provide a complete reporting solution that will simplify the distribution of database reports, enhance database/record level security, and provide easy to use graphical tools for report creation.

Distribute

Getting the information to the people who need it is critical in any business. How the information is accessed is equally important. With Report Services, organizations have complete flexibility in distributing reports to their end employees, customers, and partners. Reports can be distributed through a portal interface, webOS desktop, corporate email, or network file system. Report Services provides the ease, flexibility, and security to distribute corporate data throughout the organization by the means the best suits the business.

• Distribute reports through a portal dashboard interface
• Distribute reports through a webOS desktop interface
• Business Triggers allow reports to be executed and delivered on certain business events
• Schedule and distribute reports automatically through email
• Schedule and distribute reports through the network file system