1. Report Management System
Inam Ul-Haq
Lecturer in Computer Science
UE, Okara Campus
organizer@dfd-charity.com, inam@ue.edu.pk
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Report Management System
• Electronic Reporting System
• The Electronic Recording & Reporting System (ERS) is used to record,
report, process, store and send fisheries data (catch, landing, sales
and transshipment).
• Transshipment = transfer from one conveyance to another

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Reports Generating Software
• Reporting software is used to generate human-readable
reports from various data sources.
Open Source Software
Eclipse BIRT Project
GNU Enterprise
JasperReports
LibreOffice Base
OpenOffice Base
Pentaho
SpagoBI
Commercial Software
ActiveReports
Actuate
Business Objects
Birst
BOARD
Cognos BI
Crystal Reports
JReport
List & Label

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Types of Report
• Informal business reports are typically communicated via
email, memos, letters, or orally
Informal Reports
•Activity reports
•Minutes of meetings
•Policy or procedural
directives
•Progress or status reports
•Survey reports
•Trip reports
Formal Reports
•Analytical reports
• Progress reports
• Informational
reports
• with no comments
• Recommendations
• Proposed actions

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Parts of Report
• Introduction: Begin the report with a brief overview of its contents.
• Summary: Summarize the situation on which you are reporting, or
describe the problem or opportunity that your report is exploring.
• Discussion: Provide some explanatory detail, including the results of
whatever research you may have conducted. List the available
options. Explain your methods, if appropriate. If you are writing an
analytical report or recommendation, give the criteria by which you
are making judgments.
• Conclusions: If you are writing an analytical report, offer your
evaluation here. If you are writing a recommendation or feasibility
study, explain which option you think is best, and why.

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Example: Eclipse BIRT Reporting

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Example: Tabeau Desktop (data visualization)

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Example: inventoryos.com (web-based)

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Where we are

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Bonus Assignment
Marks = 4
If each student gives 10 minute demonstration over one of these:
1.Crystal Reports
2.Inventory System
3.Accounting Software
4.SAP
5.Teleconferencing Apps
6.( video demonstration)
7.SPSS / PeachTree
8.ZOHO Reports

11. References
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_reporting_software
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