Pre Engagement Investigation
DBCS development personnel will work with your database administrator or someone within your organisation who is familiar with your data sources to define/investigate the following:

• Data source types
• Data source access methods
• Data source relationships

Report Specification
In this phase the definition, DBCS project personnel will define the required functionality and attributes of the report to be developed. These items will include:

• Report Owner
• Report Audience
• Purpose of developed report
• Required data sources
• Required data fields
• Data filter/criteria to be applied
• Report Parameters
• Data grouping/sorting/summaries
• Report layout/appearance
• Charting / Graphing requirements
• Conditional Formatting
• Formula requirements
• Cross-tab (pivot table) requirements
• Output formats (pdf,xls,doc etc.)
• Output methods (email, web, file share)

Proposal
Based on the output of the Report Specification phase, a proposal containing the estimate of lead time and cost required to complete the report development will be generated.

Report Development
Once the proposal is accepted, the development of the specified report will begin. Once a prototype report has been developed, initial testing will be carried out against your live data sources. Once prototype testing is complete, the report will be developed to completion to the agreed Report specification.

Report Deployment
Upon development completion the report will be implemented on your system and the handover process will be completed with the your report owner/administrator.

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