Report Formatting Templates
Cat avg: 8.1
Top Performing Features
Report sharing and collaboration
Report sharing and collaboration is the ability to easily share reports with others.
Cat avg: 8.6
Publish to PDF
Cat avg: 8.5
Responsive Design for Web Access
Web design aimed at producing easy-to-read sites across a range of different devices.
Cat avg: 7.9
Worst Performing Features
Formatting capabilities
Ability to format output e.g. conditional formatting, lines, headers, footers.
Cat avg: 8.1
Flexmonster Pivot Table & Charts Component Features from Reviews
BI Standard Reporting
Standard reporting means pre-built or canned reports available to users without having to create them.
10+20%
Report Formatting Templates
Category average: 8.1
Ad-hoc Reporting
Ad-Hoc Reports are reports built by the user to meet highly specific requirements.
9.5+16%
Formatting capabilities
Ability to format output e.g. conditional formatting, lines, headers, footers.
Category average: 8.1
Report sharing and collaboration
Report sharing and collaboration is the ability to easily share reports with others.
Category average: 8.6
Report Output and Scheduling
Ability to schedule and manager report output.
10+20%
Publish to PDF
Category average: 8.5
Mobile Capabilities
Support for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.
10+32%
Responsive Design for Web Access
Web design aimed at producing easy-to-read sites across a range of different devices.
Category average: 7.9
Flexmonster Pivot Table & Charts Component Features from the Vendor
BI Platform
Vendor-reviewedLive Connection to External Data
Snapshot of External Data
In-memory data model
OLAP (Pre-processed cube representation)
Supported Data Sources
Vendor-reviewedText Files (CSV, etc)
Oracle
MS SQL Server
IBM DB2
Postgres
MySQL
ODBC
Salesforce
SAP
BI Standard Reporting
Vendor-reviewedPixel Perfect reports
Pixel Perfect reports are highly-formatted reports with graphics and ability to preview the report before printing.
Report Formatting Templates
Ad-hoc Reporting
Vendor-reviewedDrill-down analysis
Drill down analysis is the ability to get to a further level of detail by going deeper into the hierarchy.
Formatting capabilities
Ability to format output e.g. conditional formatting, lines, headers, footers.
Report sharing and collaboration
Report sharing and collaboration is the ability to easily share reports with others.
Report Output and Scheduling
Vendor-reviewedPublish to Web
Publish to PDF
Report Versioning
Report versioning is the assignment of version numbers to each version of a report to help in tracking.
Data Discovery and Visualization
Vendor-reviewedPre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
Pre-built visualization formats are canned visualization types that can be selected to visualize different kinds of data.
Access Control and Security
Vendor-reviewedMulti-User Support (named login)
Named model access means that users have access based on name and password.
Role-Based Security Model
Role-based access means that access to data is determined by job or position in the corporation.
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
Multiple access permission levels means that different levels of users have different rights.
Report-Level Access Control
Report-level access control means that the type of report determines who has access to it.
Mobile Capabilities
Vendor-reviewedResponsive Design for Web Access
Web design aimed at producing easy-to-read sites across a range of different devices.
Mobile Application
A dedicated app for iOS and/or Android.
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
In-app dashboard reports and data visualization.