With the dramatic expansion of information technology, and the desire for increased competitiveness in corporations, there has been an increase in the use of computing power to produce unified reports. Ontimize in-house engineers realised the importance of a non-complex reporting facility which can contribute to improved business intelligence and knowledge management for the production of human readable information. To show for example how profitable an enterprise is, how efficiently their processes have been managed, how worthwhile a project was, how much a company must bill each of its clients monthly, where their resources are located at all times, what is the current balance of a particular client, and so on ….

Ontimize Reports allows users both to graphically design report layout and to use default templates, which can be populated with data collected from Ontimize applications. In Ontimize applications users can query and manage data  from a wide variety of data sources, including Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, ODBC-based databases (such as, Oracle, SQLServer, Access, Postgres, Derby ...), as well as local file system information.
Ontimize applications provide a wide array of formatting options available to manage this data, which may be also ordered alphabetically or by several criteria, filtered, grouped into bands (each of which can be split further and conditionally suppressed as needed), and so on … Custom formulas are also allowed in order to  fetch and highlight specific results.
Using Ontimize reporting tools all managed and edited data is able to be placed on the report design surface.

Moreover, Ontimize applications also allows the integration of 3rd party reporting engines and design tools such as:
•  JasperReports engine, which is the world's most popular open source reporting engine, entirely written in Java  and able to use data coming from any kind of data source to produce reports.
•  iReport designer, to create very sophisticated layouts containing charts, images, subreports, crosstabs and much more.
•  JfreeReport generator, a free Java library for creating reports
•  JfreeChart tools, a free Java chart library which supports pie charts (2D and 3D), bar charts (horizontal and vertical, regular and stacked), line charts, scatter plots, time series charts, high-low-open-close charts, candlestick plots, Gantt charts, combined plots, thermometers, dials and more.
•  and so on.

Some examples of  Ontimize reports are: auditor's reports, bill reports, custom charts, progress reports, annual reports,  credit reports, appraisal reports,  bank reports, official reports ….

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TECHNICAL FEATURES

Some of these Ontimize's powerful modules and components features are:

•  Instant access your data to be reported through whatever kind of database (see below), Microsoft Excel or Open Office spreadsheets, JDBCs, ODBCs , TableModels, XMLs, local file system information, valid custom sources and so much more ...

•  Get your data from a wide variety of data sources, such as, Oracle, MySQL, Derby, SQLServer, PostgreSQL, JavaDB,  Acess,  Informix, HSQLDB, and so on …

•  Print or export in a variety of document formats including HTML, PDF, Excel, OpenOffice, Word, RTF, XML, XLS, CSV, XHTML, text, DOCX, …

•  Embed this functionality in whatever type of Ontimize application

• Integrate 3rd part  reporting engines, designers and tools, such as, JasperReports engine,  iReport designer, JfreeReport generator, JfreeChart tools,  ..

• Get the most powerful reports in only one click using the default Ontimize report layouts and templates.

•  For Ontimize reports based on  JasperReports, all reports allowed for this library can be designed, stored and shown, using the iReport  editor and the Ontimize-iReport plugins to get full integration with repositories in order to be also able to modify your applications report templates without re-starting. Moreover, several repositories can be configured for each application.