Reports view

The Reports view displays performance reports on historical values of aggregate business measures relative to a time axis. The Reports view helps you to analyze historical values of numeric business measures that belong to a subject area (business measures group). The analysis is typically represented in tables and graphs.

You can use business measures, within this subject area, as dimensions to further break down the business measures values that are being analyzed. The business measures must already be defined as dimensions in the business measures model.

This view requires a business measures model that contains one or more subject areas. Each can contain one or more dimensions for further analysis.

Four types of analysis can be performed on historical data of a subject area: Basic, Quartile, Trend, and Control. The following table describes the supported analysis types.
Analysis types
Analysis type Description
Basic Displays the business measures values.
Quartile Displays the value of the boundary at the 25th, 50th, or 75th percentiles of a frequency distribution divided into four parts, each containing a quarter of the population.
Trend Displays the analysis of the changes in a given item of information over a period of time using Exponentially Weighted Moving Average (EWMA). The EWMA is the average of historical values that are given weights (by a weighing factor), which exponentially decrease by time.
Control Displays the variation in the business measures that you are measuring to help you understand and reduce the variation. It is mostly used for quality control. The allowable variation is three times the standard deviation of the data.

You can select any analysis type, and the output report will be generated in the form of table and chart. With the Basic analysis type, you can add multiple business measures. For the other analysis types, you can select only one business measure.

Reports view

In addition to the defined business measures that are part of the selected subject area, the report provides two predefined business measures: Sum of New Items and Sum of Resolved Items. Your analysis can include either one or both of these predefined business measures, or one or more of the Modeled measures.

You can use the view mode of the Reports view to generate reports by analyzing the business measures values that have occurred over a defined period of time. Those values will be analyzed according to the selected analysis type and dimension.

If you create a wire from the Organizations view to the Reports view, you can filter the generated report data, based on an associated employee. The values of business measures associated with process instances can be filtered, based on associated employees. If you establish a wiring connection from the Organizations view targeting the Reports view, your report data is automatically filtered, based on the assigned employee that you selected from the Organizations view.

Before analysis reports can be generated, the dashboard administrator must configure the view. Configuration tasks include:

The configuration saved by the Administrator role can be personalized later by other roles, provided they have access to the view edit mode, for example, the Privileged User role.

Related concepts
View modes
Dashboards access control
Cooperative views
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) view
Scorecards view
Alerts view
Gauges view
Active Instances view
Dimensions view
Organizations view
Process Diagrams view
Export Values view
Related tasks
Wiring dashboard views
Configuring Reports view
Modifying Reports view visual appearance
Drilling down report values
Filtering report data by employees
Administering dashboards and views
Related reference
Dashboards
WebSphere Portal information
Cooperative views reference
Reports view reference
DB2 Alphablox

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