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GMGenius,<br />
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ok, thanks for your perspective ! I'll keep this open for a couple of more days.
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GMGenius,

ok, thanks for your perspective ! I'll keep this open for a couple of more days.

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sorry for the delay, no one else responded . . . :-(<br />
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but thanks !
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sorry for the delay, no one else responded . . . :-(

but thanks !

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I've been part of a BusinessObjects team for about a year, having never been involved in BO before. But I have been doing IT systems for a good long while, with particular emphasis / expertise in writing awesome SQL statements . . . <br />
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I finally was able to produce some data points in regards to report usage, in contrast to online screen transactions. This is your classic (higher education) transaction system, with data-entry screens, canned reports, and ad-hoc reporting via BusinessObjects Web Intelligence.<br />
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So here is the data -<br />
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So the raw observation is that reports, both standard and ad-hoc, are hardly used. What do you make of this ? I realize there are many factors involved, but does this strike you as way too lopsided, or what ?
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I've been part of a BusinessObjects team for about a year, having never been involved in BO before. But I have been doing IT systems for a good long while, with particular emphasis / expertise in writing awesome SQL statements . . . 

I finally was able to produce some data points in regards to report usage, in contrast to online screen transactions. This is your classic (higher education) transaction system, with data-entry screens, canned reports, and ad-hoc reporting via BusinessObjects Web Intelligence.

So here is the data -


So the raw observation is that reports, both standard and ad-hoc, are hardly used. What do you make of this ? I realize there are many factors involved, but does this strike you as way too lopsided, or what ?

Trying to understand report usage (standard reports, ad-hoc reports) in a BusinessObjects environment

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