If Excel Annoys You, FineReport will Save You!

FineReport
Sep 9, 2018 · 6 min read

FineReport is essentially a universal reporting software and data visualization tool. Compared with Excel, it is small enough to store statistical data, produce a wide variety of charts and dashboard; It is large to produce financial, sales, marketing and other business reports, develop invoicing systems, connect to big data platforms and build data centers.

In enterprise applications, when enterprises, organizations or groups become large, the amount of data is tens of thousands, and both data and reports need to be continuously updated by collaborative management. In the face of the data from OA, ERP, CRM systems, various requirements submitted by different departments, and the disgusting reports, you know, Excel cannot deal with it. At this moment, open reporting tools are needed and FineReport is one of them.

FineReport is the reporting tool of FanRuan Software Co., Ltd.. It is among the best commercial reporting softwares in the world. It has been successfully selected in the Gartner Global Market Guide and has become the only manufacturer and product in China to be selected, listed with international giants such as Microsoft, SAP and Oracle!
(Market Guide for Traditional Enterprise Reporting Platforms)

From Gartner
From Gartner

(1) It can quickly develop reports, seamlessly integrate with various systems, connect to various database, data warehouse, big data platforms, and comprehensive service data analysis and display;

(2) It is able to quickly and flexibly produce reports, build a unified data decision and management platform, and allows more data for business operations and decision-making.

Technical Interpretation

The most useful application of FineReport is to be able to quickly generate reports, build a unified data decision and management platform, and allow more data for business operations and decision making.

From FineReport
From FineReport

In general, FineReport can solve the following problems:

  • The traditional SQL+Excel way to integrate data for reporting is of low efficiency and poor accuracy
  • Business system data is so scattered that data islands appear, which makes it difficult to effectively use the data
  • Lack of a unified report management portal, unable to form a global data view to assist decision
  • Market environment and business needs are changing, unable to quickly meet changing reporting needs

From a technical point of view, FineReport can connect data of various business systems, such as OA, CRM, ERP, or connect to BI systems, such as Qlikview, Tableau, etc., which can be part of the business requirements or the entire business system.

My colleague used it to develop an attendance system, and my peers also used it to develop invoicing systems, exam systems, and small financial systems.

1. FineReport+ business system

The reporting capabilities of the general business system are very weak, and it is difficult to meet the needs of enterprise data analysis and management. Taking the case of OA system development as an example, the OA self-reporting function has many inherent defects in the actual business application process.

(1) The data is all from the OA system, and the reporting feature is part of the OA functions. For example, counting the number of documents received or sent by various departments, counting the attendance days of employees, etc., both in terms of format and statistics, are relatively simple and fixed, and cannot reflect the correlation analysis of various types of data from a comprehensive perspective.

(2) The manufacturer or service provider builds reports at the time of implementation. The user may request and the service provider will be responsible for completing the development of the report. Although this method can better meet the needs of users, the flexibility is far from enough to be able to move on demand for the development of subsequent business.

With the development of enterprise applications, OA software pays more and more attention to data analysis and utilization. Not only data analysis can form the management of information and processes, but also realize the effective management and utilization of enterprise data, so report applications have become a more and more important part of enterprise office automation software (collaborative office software).

Therefore, product-type software companies often choose to cooperate with FanRuan which FineReport belongs to when encountering customers with reporting requirements, such as Kingdee, UFIDA, Seeyon, Weaver, WHIR, LandRay, Digital China, and Inspur. The business system products integrated with FineReport include OA, ERP, MIS, CRM, TMS, WMS, BPM, EHR, and attendance systems.

2. FineReport+BI system

Reports and BI are inherently unclear, and how do they fit together? Give two examples.

(1) After the construction of the data platform of Northeast Securities, the structured data has been initially unified, and the data report and chart visualization can be realized by the Cognos tool. However, due to the cumbersome and complicated development of Cognos, the data team has been unable to take over the tool, and new requirements are constantly emerging. It is necessary to save the structured data generated by the work in the system, replace excel recording and reporting data. Therefore, Northeast Securities finally went to FineReport, which met the current data reporting and other analysis needs.

(2) Dahua Technology Co., Ltd. built a data analysis platform with Qlikview, but when their reporting needs broke out, QlikView could not solve the problem. The final solution is to introduce FineReport, which is used in parallel with QlikView. Several people at the leadership use QlikView, and the middle management uses reports made by finereport. FineReport is a specialized reporting software which is far superior to QlikView in terms of ease of use, speed and response to complex reports.

Therefore, the FineReport+BI system wins in development efficiency and wins in facing middle managers, facing the fixed ones, and facing complex reports. Whether it is traditional BI such as SAP BO, Cognos, Oracle BIEE, etc., or new self-service BI such as Tableau, FineBI, Qlikview, PowerBI, etc., you can use FineReport to “+” them.

3. FineReport+ scene requirements

The essence of the information system is the entry and display. It happens that FineReport naturally supports these two functions, which itself is a visual system DIY tool. Therefore, many users directly use FineReport to develop some business systems, such as simple access system, project weekly report management system, hotel room income data system, test analysis system, member management system, credit card attendance system, order system, WeChat little secretary, etc. .

Nowadays, the demand for large-screen data display is increasing. It is generally used in exhibition centers, urban traffic control centers, trading halls, real-time monitoring centers, group conference centers, strategic command centers, etc., and the visual effect requirements are also getting higher and higher. But now, with FineReport, you don’t need to customize the development, you can easily create a cool management cockpit, support the release of multi-scene data on the large screen for visual centralized control.

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