A drilldown report is a report used for the interactive evaluation of data.

Drilldown reports are created by members of the controlling department and other concerned departments according to their specific requirements. The subsequent evaluation of the selected data is normally carried out by the same people. The results of drilldown reporting can be assembled in a graphical report portfolio, for specific user groups.

A report can be created as either a basic report or a form report. The form report, in contrast to the basic one, lets you configure the layout as you wish.

In a report, we differentiate between two types of list. In a drilldown list, several objects (characteristic values) such as divisions, are shown in the rows and a selection of key figures (for example, revenue and contribution margin 1) are shown in the columns. In a detail list, a single object (for example, the combination of customer X in sales area 1) is broken down into all its component key figures. The rows of the list are composed of the key figures, and the columns may contain, for example, the planned and actual values for the object.