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PROFESSIONAL DECISION-MAKING SUPPORT AND BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
BASED ON THE INFORMATION HELD WITHIN YOUR BUSINESS DATABASE.
All the software systems store the business data in a data store, so that it is recorded and can be
referred at any time. The business data store has all the data that is essential for the business. Each
of the software system will have data specific to the kind of business it is designed to serve.
Magic Report allows you to run the reports against this information and derive the intelligence
that is required to make sound business decisions.
With Reporter Studio, a standard database panel is provided to the user to create the report. This
is independent of the database the user is working on. The designer part of the product gives you
full flexibility in deciding the input and design of your report. The output of the report designer is
a standard jasper xml and is in a human readable format. Thus the generation of this xml can also
be automated. Report designed by the designer can be published to the Magic Report server.
Magic Report supports almost any relational database. It also supports unstructured data that can
be harnessed using Hadoop /Cassandra drivers. It provides an extensible way if any of the
database is not supported. This flexibility makes the product suitable to any of the business
scenario whether small, medium or large.
LOGIN
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The user has to login to the Magic Report console to view the reports. To login into the system the use
have the credentials for the same. This can be done by the administrator of the console.
USER MANAGEMENT
The user management module is used to maintain the users in the system. It allows the
administrator to choose what sort of access the user has.
The administrator can create a role template that can be applied to various users so that all of
them have the same access. Also if the role template associated with a group of user’s changes,
then all of them will see the change in their access.
Magic Report allows for creating users and later authenticating them. All the user related
information can be collected in the user screen so that it can used later on. For example the user
email must be entered so that the user can receive the reports as email. The user also has a
password and will be associated to a role.
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Once the users have their login credentials configured into system they can login to the system
and start working on other operations in the system.
UPLOAD DRIVER
The report can be created run against twelve plus relational databases. Each of these databases
will have a specific driver that is associated with them. This driver must first be uploaded into
Magic Report. This can be done using the driver upload screen.
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The driver upload allows the user to upload drivers for same databases but with different versions
thus allowing connecting to older versions of the databases as well.
DATA SOURCE DETAILS
The user next has to configure the database against which the report has to run within Magic
Report. This can be done using the data source configuration screen. Using this screen the user
has to provide the technical details such that the database can be uniquely identified. Also the user
credentials to connect the database have to be entered here. All these parameters can be tested
using the test connection button.
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UPLOAD REPORT
The report can either be published from inside the report creator or it can be uploaded manually.
To upload manually the user just has to upload a report with a unique name.
Once a report is uploaded it’s time to generate the report and view it. Magic Report supports two
types of report generation manual and scheduled.
SCHEDULE REPORT
The scheduled report is delivered into the mail box at a scheduled time. The schedule has to be
defined at which time the report must get generated. This can be done using the schedule screen.
The schedules are of various kinds daily, weekly and monthly.
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Once the schedule template is defined it can used by multiple places. One of the applications o
schedules is to generate the end of the month and end of day reports automatically.
Once the schedule is defined now it’s time to link all the parameters and set up the report
generation.
REPORT DATA SOURCE LINKAGE
In the linkage you link following pieces - Data source
- Report
- Output type
- Schedule.
- User
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The output type defines what output the report will generate.
GENERATE REPORT
To view the report the user must navigate to the report generation screen and select a particular
report. Once the report is generated the download link will appear which can be used to download
the report from the screen. This is online report generation.
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If a report generation was scheduled you shall see the report in your mail box and there is no need
to login into the system to view the report.
Magic Report can be easily integrated with any of the system. There is no platform/language
barrier as it exposes all of its operations as standard REST services which be used by any
platform. For example report generation can be triggered externally from any system and multiple
systems can use the same Magic Report setup at a given time. This will allow all the reporting to
be centralized to one system.
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