In today's extremely competitive business scenario, it is imperative that organizations have instant access to enterprise-wide real-time as well as historical information. Providing that information in the form of richly formatted reports has become a major concern of IT companies. By extending reporting capabilities to people who mater in an enterprise - senior management, executives, analysts, sales personnel, and even customers and external partners - companies are able to respond more rapidly to fluctuating market demands, optimize core processes, enhance operational efficiency, maximize productivity and improve revenues.

But blindly empowering users with information can trigger classic trade-offs such as softened security, poor system performance, and compromised data integrity. To fully empower all business users, organizations need to build Enterprise Reporting applications that address their diverse business needs, while maximizing returns on investments already made in transactional enterprise applications.

Enterprise reporting involves extracting data regarding various operational aspects of an enterprise directly from the CRM and ERP systems, as well as partner systems and external data sources, to generate a vast array of operational reports. Implementation often involves Extract, Transform and Load procedures into a reporting data warehouse, and then using one or more reporting tools to generate the reports.

While reports can be distributed in print form or via e-mail, they are typically accessed via a corporate intranet. These reports can take the form of graphs, histograms, pie charts, text and tables, and typically are disseminated as a set of regularly updated web pages on the enterprise portal.

PVM Innvensys delivers a flexible and comprehensive enterprise reporting solution that maximizes report usability by delivering some of today's most advanced Web-based features such as integrated proactive hyperlink drill-downs - in all supported formats - to any other report, program or location. Integrating proprietary as well as Open Source reporting tools with Innvensys' reporting solution allows companies to create the full range of customized report templates that organizations would need today - from the capsule format for the CEO to the drilled-down, nitty-gritty versions for the managers.