Providing a comprehensive set of standard management reports based on real time data is an indispensable part of any time & expense management solution. These reports should concentrate on certain key metrics to manage your business, including:
* Time Off reports detailing holiday and sickness
* Budget Reports detailing budget versus actuals separated by time, charge, cost and expenditure
* Revenue Reports broken down by activity, client, resource, role, project, charge, department, rate, or any user defined variables.
* Time Off reports detailing sickness days & holidays.
* Budget Reports detailing budget vs. actuals broken down by time, cost, charge and expenditure
* Budget Reports detailing budget vs. actuals broken down by time, expenditure, cost and charge.
* Billable Time reports comparing chargeable vs. non chargeable effort by project and resource
* Timesheet Exception Reports detailing incomplete or missing timesheets.
As well as giving more advanced time and expense management solutions and menu system report access, Atlantic Global OnDemand also allows you to access reports from specific screens and dashboards.
Context Sensitive Reports
Making any system as easy to use and as relevant to the end user as possible is crucial to the performance of a solution. By offering context sensitive reports tools like Atlantic Global OnDemand are able to achieve this. Context sensitive reports allow users to run a report with a single click from any screen in the application without the need for specific criteria. For instance, a user could easily run a utilisation or timesheet detail report straight from their timesheet entry screen. This functionality allows us to provide every user with access to their most used reports straight from the views they use the most.
Dashboard Reporting
Atlantic's solution is able to provide access to reports directly from dashboards which is another example of improving the ease of use and access to data. For instance, a project manager can rapidly get into all project management based reports directly from the project status dashboard. Working in this way means a user can be provided with a single point of entry to the system via a dashboard, where they can access all of the status information, views and reports they required for their role in the organisation. By hiding anything that isn't relevant it then becomes a lot simpler and easier to train people on the use of the system and to provide them with clear focus on the data they should be maintaining and updating.
Allowing users to print selected dashboard elements is a key aspect of Atlantic Global OnDemand. This means status reports can easily be produced with a single click
Custom Report Writer
It is essential that your time and expense management solution provides you with the ability to generate your own ad hoc reports to support all of your reporting needs. This covers any extra reporting requirements which aren't met by the standard reports the application provides. A report writer should provide the user an easy to use graphical user interface which does not require any coding languages. The report writer should be able to produce text, column, cross-tab and graphical reports. Atlantic Global OnDemand solutions also let you clone and manipulate the reports in order to put in additional fields or filter options to meet your requirements and needs. With SaaS solutions, the ability to load or import, a strong user community and product road map means that these type of systems offer additional report definitions. These enable the user to constantly expand your reporting system capabilities.
Export reports
Another aspect of reporting that a solution should offer, is the ability to export data into other systems where it can be manipulated and used. To do this a solution should be able to export data in common data formats (MS Excel, XML, PDF and HTML) directly from reports.
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* Time Off reports detailing holiday and sickness
* Budget Reports detailing budget versus actuals separated by time, charge, cost and expenditure
* Revenue Reports broken down by activity, client, resource, role, project, charge, department, rate, or any user defined variables.
* Time Off reports detailing sickness days & holidays.
* Budget Reports detailing budget vs. actuals broken down by time, cost, charge and expenditure
* Budget Reports detailing budget vs. actuals broken down by time, expenditure, cost and charge.
* Billable Time reports comparing chargeable vs. non chargeable effort by project and resource
* Timesheet Exception Reports detailing incomplete or missing timesheets.
As well as giving more advanced time and expense management solutions and menu system report access, Atlantic Global OnDemand also allows you to access reports from specific screens and dashboards.
Context Sensitive Reports
Making any system as easy to use and as relevant to the end user as possible is crucial to the performance of a solution. By offering context sensitive reports tools like Atlantic Global OnDemand are able to achieve this. Context sensitive reports allow users to run a report with a single click from any screen in the application without the need for specific criteria. For instance, a user could easily run a utilisation or timesheet detail report straight from their timesheet entry screen. This functionality allows us to provide every user with access to their most used reports straight from the views they use the most.
Dashboard Reporting
Atlantic's solution is able to provide access to reports directly from dashboards which is another example of improving the ease of use and access to data. For instance, a project manager can rapidly get into all project management based reports directly from the project status dashboard. Working in this way means a user can be provided with a single point of entry to the system via a dashboard, where they can access all of the status information, views and reports they required for their role in the organisation. By hiding anything that isn't relevant it then becomes a lot simpler and easier to train people on the use of the system and to provide them with clear focus on the data they should be maintaining and updating.
Allowing users to print selected dashboard elements is a key aspect of Atlantic Global OnDemand. This means status reports can easily be produced with a single click
Custom Report Writer
It is essential that your time and expense management solution provides you with the ability to generate your own ad hoc reports to support all of your reporting needs. This covers any extra reporting requirements which aren't met by the standard reports the application provides. A report writer should provide the user an easy to use graphical user interface which does not require any coding languages. The report writer should be able to produce text, column, cross-tab and graphical reports. Atlantic Global OnDemand solutions also let you clone and manipulate the reports in order to put in additional fields or filter options to meet your requirements and needs. With SaaS solutions, the ability to load or import, a strong user community and product road map means that these type of systems offer additional report definitions. These enable the user to constantly expand your reporting system capabilities.
Export reports
Another aspect of reporting that a solution should offer, is the ability to export data into other systems where it can be manipulated and used. To do this a solution should be able to export data in common data formats (MS Excel, XML, PDF and HTML) directly from reports.
Let us know how important you believe Real Time Management Reporting is by leaving a comment.
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