Report Get Started Guide Overview
This Get Started guide provides overview material for the Report products. Select the links to learn more.
Report delivers operational business intelligence to enterprise applications through powerful embedded reporting.
Both Designer and Server have some basic installation requirements. Before installing them, check your system to make sure all the requirements have been met.
Report has several special licenses that enable you to use some specific features in Report.
Report supports all of the current mainstream databases and most databases that support JDBC drivers.
After you install Server successfully, you can start it and sign in to the Server Console to run reports and dashboards.
In the Resources page of the Server Console, you can view the sample reports Report provides in different formats.
You can create ad hoc reports using predefined business views that are published to Server.
You can create dashboards using JDashboard, which displays rich visualizations of your data using the vast library of charting elements such as maps, crosstabs, tables, and even live motion charts.
Start a Visual Analysis Session
You can visualize the result of every step of business data analysis by dragging and dropping business data fields to the layout module using Visual Analysis.
There are many sample reports in Designer. You can open any of them and preview the report.
Report supports theee types of reports, Page Report, Web Report, and Library Component. Before you create new reports using Designer, you need to first create a catalog and then create connections to your data sources.
Online documentation includes all information about the Report products.
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