Zap Business Intelligence
Reporting
Self-service business reporting software for all employees
Business reporting software allows employees at all levels to pull information from a company’s business systems for day-to-day operations and decision-making. Zap Business Intelligence provides flexible business reporting functionality to meet all your reporting needs:
Report Packs: A unified platform for producing financial and management reports.
Zap Office: Meets the need for business reporting and business analysis via an Excel® interface. This application lets you use Microsoft Excel to analyse and report on information from multi-dimensional databases. Business reports can be automatically generated and distributed or published via your corporate intranet.
Report Packs
Zap Report Packs provide a central online location for report development, without the manual processes and inaccuracies associated with offline tools. Zap’s Report Pack functionality includes:
- End user comments can be added to financial statements
- Notes fields can be added to existing financial reports to provide an explanation of specific account roll-ups or account treatments for statutory bodies
- Free form text pages cater for Title Pages and automated Table of Contents
- Support for a geographically disbursed set of users through the web architecture
- Numbers can be viewed but not altered by users
- A full audit trail is recorded of all changes to reports
- End user formatting capabilities are similar to Excel
- Grouping of individual reports into specific report packs. The user simply drags and drops the required reports, enters comments and generates the report pack.
Zap Office
Rich functionality for business reporting via an Excel interface:
- Reporting on all corporate data from any data source.
- Interaction with data using the full range of Excel functions including calculations, graphs, and pivot tables.
- Report and chart creation using wizards or simple drag and drop.
- Fixed and free form report layout for complete flexibility.
- Comprehensive sorting, filtering and pivoting
- Drill down/up on data to break down underlying detail.
- Report scheduling and distribution.
- Extensive print and preview options.
- Export to a wide variety of formats.
- Fully integrated security with the Zap Business Intelligence framework.
Benefits of using Excel for business intelligence analysis include:
- Instant rollout of business intelligence: Zap Office minimises the time required for user adoption and training. With its familiar Excel interface, business intelligence becomes a seamless part of your business from the very first day of implementation.
- Streamlined month-end reporting process: With Zap Office you can produce formatted month-end report packs for your business, to make the reporting process more consistent and efficient.
- Business information available across your organisation: Any business user can easily run Zap Office, providing pervasive business intelligence for enhanced decision-making at all levels of your business.