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<ManualTopic ID="/baanerp/tp/onlinemanual/bi/000364" xml:lang="en">
   <Header>
      <Title>BI Reporting</Title>
      <Keyword type="header" order="d1e2611633">
         <Level1>BI Reporting</Level1>
      </Keyword>
   </Header>
   <AimSection/>
   <GeneralSection>
      <Paragraph>In Project Management, business intelligence (BI) refers to
		software-based techniques used to identify, extract and analyze project data
		such as project or sales revenue, by associated costs and income. BI reporting
		technology provides historical, current and predictive views of project
		transactions. The common functions of BI reporting technology are analytics,
		project performance management, forecast analytics, project scheduling and so
		on. BI facilitates better business decision-making.</Paragraph>
      <Paragraph>The BI Reporting tool facilitates generation of consolidated
		reports based on the data that the tool receives from ERP Enterprise, such as expected
		costs, actual costs, planned dates, actual dates, expected schedule, actual
		schedule and so on. It also facilitates graphical representation of the
		analysis of the data. Using the tool, project manager can view, study and
		analyze the data in different forms, at different levels and based on different
		parameters.</Paragraph>
      <Paragraph>The tool also generates alerts, in case of a deviation in any of
		the business values. The record with the deviated value in the report is
		highlighted in RED, to alert the user.</Paragraph>
      <Paragraph>The tool provides an overview of the essential parameters
		required to evaluate the performance of a project. It also provides more
		detailed information of a project. For example, a project manager can review
		the planned input, actual input, expected output and actual output. By
		comparing these parameters, the project manager gets an overall report on the
		project's performance and can take necessary measures to rectify discrepancies,
		if any.</Paragraph>
   </GeneralSection>
   <GeneralSection>
      <SectionTitle>Project Reports and Adhoc Analysis</SectionTitle>
      <Paragraph>Following reports can be generated using the Infor ION BI
		Reporting tool:</Paragraph>
      <ProcedureList>
         <ListItem>Budget vs Actual by Project</ListItem>
         <ListItem>Time Phased Project performance</ListItem>
         <ListItem>Initial Budget vs. Actual by Project</ListItem>
         <ListItem>Cost Forecast by Project</ListItem>
         <ListItem>Project Performance</ListItem>
         <ListItem>Project Scheduling</ListItem>
         <ListItem>Ad hoc Analysis</ListItem>
      </ProcedureList>
   </GeneralSection>
</ManualTopic>