NCS Circulation Reporting - A Review Of Reporting Options

Reporting | Options Available Review of Different Reporting Options Circulation Audit Reporting InSight Business Intelligence External Reporting using ODBC Results Reporting © 2015 Newscycle Solutions

Reporting | Circulation Why use Standard Reporting? Financial Reporting Accounting Journals Audit – Setup Changes, AAM Distribution Documents Draw Journals © 2015 Newscycle Solutions

Reporting | Circulation Audit Reporting – Digital Access Digital Audit © 2015 Newscycle Solutions

Reporting | Circulation Accounting Journals Charges Journal © 2015 Newscycle Solutions

Reporting | Circulation What Circulation Reports are NOT designed to support… Business Intelligence Custom Report Designs © 2015 Newscycle Solutions

Reporting | InSight Why Use InSight? Business Intelligence Trending and Analysis Spot what is going well Spot areas for improvement Create reports on-the-fly Distribute to non-technical users © 2015 Newscycle Solutions

Reporting | InSight What InSight is NOT designed to support… Not designed for real-time access to Circulation Database Not intended to fully replicate the Circulation Database Not designed for Audit Reporting (like AAM) Not structured for billing documents (invoices, renewals) © 2015 Newscycle Solutions

Reporting | InSight InSight Reporting – Digital Access Digital Access Trending and Analysis © 2015 Newscycle Solutions

Reporting | InSight InSight Reporting – Digital Access Retention – A look at Falloff © 2015 Newscycle Solutions

Reporting | InSight InSight Reporting – Digital Access Why are subscribers are stopping © 2015 Newscycle Solutions

Reporting | InSight InSight Reporting – Financial Data Revenue by Rate Code © 2015 Newscycle Solutions

Reporting | InSight InSight Reporting – Exports & Reports © 2015 Newscycle Solutions

Reporting | InSight InSight Reporting – Email Report to Casual Users © 2015 Newscycle Solutions

Reporting | ODBC External Reporting Use your external reporting system to access data from the Circulation Database. Crystal Reports Custom Extracts (ex. Mather) Custom SQL/Query © 2015 Newscycle Solutions 2014.1

Reporting | ODBC Getting Started with ODBC Open a Support Case and request the ODBC driver. NCS provides driver and Progress ODBC client to for customer to Install Customer install and configure ODBC Client Requires a detailed understanding of tables and table relations. © 2015 Newscycle Solutions 2014.1

Reporting | Results What is Results best used for? Simple Lists, Queries and Reports Totals and Sub-Totals Supports and/or Logic Results is not designed to… Complex Reporting (Unearned Revenue) ‘Find First’ and ‘Not Available’ checks Multiple Inquiries into the same database table © 2015 Newscycle Solutions 2014.1

Reporting | Results Simple List © 2015 Newscycle Solutions

Reporting | Results And / Or Logic © 2015 Newscycle Solutions

Reporting | Results Totals & Sub-Totals © 2015 Newscycle Solutions

Reporting | Results Difference between Character and Graphical Results Feature CHARACTER (CHUI) GRAPHICAL (GUI) Table Limit 5 No Limit Costed Add-On No Yes (Per User Cost) Save the program (.p) Yes (Ability to add to custom Menu) NOTE: Results requires basic table structure knowledge © 2015 Newscycle Solutions

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