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Running Reports in Siebel Energy

The Price Comparison feature provides two reports, which are both used only by administrators:

• The Price Comparison Administrative Report

  This report displays the competitor's name; the equivalent rate plan; the pricing at each tier for that rate plan; the day, night and weekend pricing for that rate plan; the projected annual bill for that rate plan; and the difference in price between the in-house and the competitor's rate plan.

  When the report is run, the report returns the price comparison data matching the requirements set in the Price Comparison Admin Reports parameters view.

• The Competitive Pricing Report

  This report displays the competitor's name, equivalent rate plan, projected annual bill and the difference in cost between the in-house and the competitor's rate plan.

To run the Price Comparison Administrative Report

1. Navigate to the Product Comparison screen.
2. In the toolbar, click the Reports icon.
3. In the Reports dialog box, select EPC Administrative Report from the drop-down list.
4. Click Run Now.
5. In the EPC Admin Parameters dialog box, set the constraints for the report, if necessary.

   If you do not set constraints, the report includes all the data.

6. Click Finish.

   The Report Viewer displays the report.

To run the Competitive Pricing report

1. Navigate to the Product Comparison screen.
2. Click CP Report.

   This begins the SmartScript session used with the Price Comparison feature. However, to run the report, you do not have to supply answers for Region, Supplier, or Rate Plans. If these questions are not answered, the report is generated for all regions, suppliers and rate plans.

3. At the end of the SmartScript session, click Finish.

   Siebel Energy generates the report data as a background task. An email notification is sent to the user when the report has been generated.