Purpose

Drilldown reporting is a dialog-orientated information system for evaluating the data on your EC-EIS database. The task of drilldown reporting is to portray business objects (combinations of characteristics) in such a way that you can quickly pinpoint noteworthy objects, because, for example, they contain unusually high or low values for a particular key figure. It is important to note that drilldown reporting always refers to the business objects of one particular aspect. Drilldown reporting can be used to evaluate the dataset according to all the characteristics contained in an aspect. You may use any key figures you wish in interactive drilldown reporting. The system also enables you to perform variance analyses (plan/actual comparisons, fiscal year comparisons, object comparisons, etc.). For each key figure, you can display several objects and for each object, several key figures.

Interactive drilldown is mainly used by employees from controlling and staff departments.

Integration

The EC-EIS data is presented in both the report portfolio and drilldown reporting . The end user can view predefined reports, graphics and texts in the report portfolio. For more information, see Report Portfolio .

Features

Drilldown reporting contains convenient functions for navigating through the dataset, for example, next level (drilldown), next object within a level, hiding a level, detail list, and drilldown list. It also contains numerous additional functions for editing a report interactively (conditions, exceptions, sort orders, top n lists, etc.). In addition, drilldown reporting is connected to SAP graphics, SAPmail, and various printing functions with Microsoft Word and Excel. With the interface to the product "inSight" from arcplan Information Services, you can configure your own graphical user interface for interactive drilldown reporting.

Within drilldown reporting you can create and display reports which are simple in layout (data controlled) or more complex (formatted).

The data selected for a report can subsequently be saved. This leads to improved response times the next time you call up the report. This may lead to the report data not being completely up to date, which is not necessarily a disadvantage, for example, report data that only needs to be updated periodically.

The functions in drilldown reporting are split into three levels so that a user can access the function level which most suits his information requirements and tasks.

As well as the interactive functions, reporting contains functions for printing large numbers of reports.

You can find general information on drilldown reporting, and its procedures in the cross-application online documentation Drilldown Reporting .