Some thoughts, hints and tips on reporting in Agresso:

• Ensure the results are verifiable

  All to often we see hugely complex Excelerator reports with reams of sql code and tortuous logic to produce a set of results. The end user has no means of reproducing those results for himself and has to take them on trust. Any further analysis becomes impossible.

  Instead, ensure that any results from an Excelerator/Crystal/ARC report can be reproduced in Browser. That way, a user can convince himself that the results are genuine and can carry out his own analysis confident in his own results as long as they agree with the published report.

• Separate the presentation and extraction of data
  

  details to follow