Providing your users and customers with helpful reports and dashboards is one thing. But you can’t expect to predict every question they will have. Ad hoc or self-service reporting puts the power of report-making into your users’ hands. Provided a drag-and-drop interface, users of any skill level can build reports and get answers to custom questions—all on their own. With a few simple steps, you can turn your complex source data into easy-to-understand fields & measures and create a beautiful report-building oasis for your users. In this webinar, you will learn how to: - Prepare data for your users by creating a metadata layer that makes it easy for them to understand - Build an ad hoc report from scratch using an intuitive, web-based design environment - Make customizations to reports, save them for later use, and share reports with others

1. The Fundamentals of Ad Hoc
Reporting
How to create a report building oasis for your users

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What is this all about?
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Business usersReport developer
What
about Y?
What
about Z?
What
about X?
Reports
New report requests

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Hello from Jaspersoft!
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Raphael Peguet
Sr. Solutions Consultant
Dublin, Ireland
Shane Swiderek
Product Marketing Manager
San Francisco, CA

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What is Jaspersoft?
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A BI & analytics platform designed for software builders
Architecture agnostic API-first approach Open standards Customizable (open source)
PLATFORM
EMBED
- JavaScript API
- Extensive REST APIs
- Mobile apps & SDKs
DESIGN
- Pixel perfect reports and
visualizations via IDE
- Self-service via browser
MANAGE
- Tenants/users/roles
- Repository
- Import/export
- Scheduling/export
Multi-tenant support

5. Agenda
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• What is Ad Hoc Reporting?
• How to prepare data with
metadata layer
• Creating and customizing
Ad Hoc Reports
• Distributing Ad Hoc
Reports
• Q & A

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What is Ad Hoc reporting?
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Hmm??
Casual business user
Question tier
Aha!
Answer tierReporting tier
Drag-and-drop report design environment

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Canned vs Custom Reports
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Canned Reports
Built by developers and included by default for
all your customers
Same set of reports shared by all customers
(secured by data security structure)
Customer 2
Customer 1
Custom aka “Ad Hoc” Reports
Built by end users (or dev) and only consumed by
that customer
Each report must be stored separately (object level
security)
Customer 1
Customer 2

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Report Repository Layout
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Public Folder – Canned
Private Customer Folders – Custom / Ad Hoc
Customer 1 Folder Customer 2 Folder
Customer 1
Customer 2

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Two Types of Reporting
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Pixel-perfect canned
reporting
Ad Hoc / web-based
reporting
Designer Persona
IT/Developer/Professional report
writer
Casual user/Power user
For
Pixel perfect, programmatic control
across export formats
Consumption on web –design and
customization not primary concern
Requires
Technical training, SQL/Query
knowledge
A well designed and performant Data
Warehouse
Tables ✔ ✔
Charts ✔ (3 libraries supported) ✔ (1 library supported)
Crosstabs ✔ ✔
Images ✔ (from URL, File, DB) ✔ (from URL)
Hyperlinks ✔ ✔
Subreports ✔
Multiple Data sources ✔
Maps/Widgets/
3rd Party Customizations
✔
Export to 9 Formats ✔ ✔ (not pixel perfect)
Self service: Focus on
easy creation, not
control
Pixel Perfect: 100%
control of design

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How do you create a report
building oasis for your users?

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Make your
data easy
Supply intuitive design
environment
Simplify
distribution

12. Agenda
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• What is Ad Hoc Reporting?
• Preparing data for users
with metadata layer
• Creating and customizing
Ad Hoc Reports
• Saving & sharing Ad Hoc
Reports
• Q & A

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Process for building metadata layer
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Specify
Tables
Derived
Tables
Joins
Calc.
Fields
Pre-filters
Display
names
Administrator

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Self-service report lifecycle
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Metadata DistributeDesign
Defines Schema
(Domain)
Design/View Reports in
Online Editors
Email, Mobile, Web
Admin Business Users

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Demo
Creating a domain
(metadata layer)

16. Agenda
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• What is Ad Hoc Reporting?
• Preparing data for users
with metadata layer
• Creating and customizing
Ad Hoc Reports
• Saving & sharing Ad Hoc
Reports
• Q & A

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Self-service report lifecycle
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Metadata DistributeDesign
Defines Schema
(Domain)
Email, Mobile, Web
Admin End Users
Design/View Reports in
Online Editors

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What can you design?
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Crosstabs
Charts Combinations (Dashboards)
Tables

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Demo
Designing an Ad Hoc Report

20. Agenda
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• What is Ad Hoc Reporting?
• Preparing data for users
with metadata layer
• Creating and customizing
Ad Hoc Reports
• Saving & sharing Ad Hoc
Reports
• Q & A

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Self-service report lifecycle
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Metadata DistributeDesign
Defines Schema
(Domain)
Email, Mobile, Web
Admin End Users
Design/View Reports in
Online Editors

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Demo
Distributing an Ad Hoc Report

23. Agenda
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• What is Ad Hoc Reporting?
• Preparing data for users
with metadata layer
• Creating and customizing
Ad Hoc Reports
• Saving & sharing Ad Hoc
Reports
• Q & A

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What next?
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