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  • Are you experiencing difficulties obtaining useful reports from your business software systems?
  • Is a considerable amount of time spent on creating Excel spreadsheets in order to capture the state of your business?
  • Is it difficult to create meaningful reports from the raw data output from your data sources?
  • Does your business system have limited or no reporting functionality?


Reporting Solution
Identifying, analysing and reporting critical data is essential to your business success. Gaining insights into ongoing operational status and business planning intelligence is vital in today’s challenging business environment. Crystal Reports is the most commonly used report writing application used to design and generate reports from a wide range of sources.

A custom developed Crystal report provides a simple, effective way to expose select information from your business data sources to management, employees and customers, in a format that is appropriate and understandable. Our consulting services can develop the reports that you need to access, analyse and export this valuable business data.

Example Reports
  • Sales Reports
    • Stock Item Sales per
      month/year
    • Stock Group Sales
      per month/year
    • Sales by Customer
    • Sales by Customer / Stock Group
    • Sales Forecasts Analysis
  • Stock Analysis
  • Account Status Report
  • Timesheet Log Analysis
  • Expense Log Analysis
  • Spam Log Analysis

  • Data Sources
    A report can be developed to extract and analyse data from one or more data sources. These data sources include:

    • SQL Server
    • Oracle
    • MS Access
    • MS Excel
    • ODBC
    • Pervasive
    • MS Outlook/Exchange
    • Btrieve
    • Paradox
    • Logs
    • NT Event
      • Exchange Message Tracking
      • IIS
    • ACT
    • MS SharePoint
    • Text Files

     If your Database / Business software is not listed above please contact dbcs and we can investigate the reporting / data access options for your system. Most software systems utilise standard database formats and an appropriate ODBC driver is available for most database types.

    For more information regarding the reporting services offered by DBCS, please complete the information request form.