IntelliPRINT Dashboard Reporting

This solution enables Lotus Notes users to rapidly visualize data as interactive reports with analysis capability, from within the Notes client

Thursday, September 03, 2009

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Lotus Notes reports by default have limited functionality to create reports. Users mostly have to export data into Excel or even write a script sometimes for reporting. An easy solution to this is IntelliPRINT from Synaptris, a reporting and data analysis solution for Lotus Notes and Domino. With this, even a regular Lotus Notes user can create reports with just a few clicks.

We tested IntelliPRINT Dashboard Reporting 5.2 with the latest Lotus Notes 8.5 Beta. Installing the application was easy. Once installed, the IntelliPRINT was present from inside Lotus Notes, under the action menu. The Dashboard largely constitutes of widgets that range from charts, a table or a pivot table and can be created easily through a wizard. Also, these widgets can be created from multiple databases linked with a common field. A widget once made can also be easily edited at a later.

After creating a widget, you can simply drag and drop it into the dashboard reporting workspace. A dashboard supports up to four widgets. It also allows users to save dashboards as a file, so that you can use them later. One of the coolest things in IntelliPRINT is interactivity in its widgets through its drill down option i.e its ability to retrieve underlying data in real time. For instance, if you click on a bar on a chart widget, it will immediately fetch the underlying information and represent it in a chart format again.

It allows users to export reports in a PDF document or as a BMP, JPEG and TIFF image. Also, since all reports are generated from within Notes, you don't have to worry about data integrity. Coming to the licensing part of it, Synaptris offers multiple licensing options. For users who only need to view the reports, IntelliPRINT offers IntelliPRINT Dashboard Report Viewer, where a user can only view the reports from IntelliPRINT Reporting Dashboard. Similarly, separate license types are available for Dashboard Report Editor and Dashboard Report Author

Dashboard reports of IntelliPRINT are interactive. So, when you click on a graph, it will drill-down and show underlying data in graph format in real time.

Bottomline: This service makes reports making in Lotus Notes a piece of cake. However, it's a bit expensive.

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