Choosing a Report Type

Point-of-Sale (POS) applications post data to the Enterprise Back Office database, and Reporting and Analytics applies business intelligence and analytics to the data to produce reports for analysis and interpretation.

The reports generated by Reporting and Analytics include child reports, or drill-down reports, which inherit scope and properties from the parent report to display more extensive and detailed information about the user selection. For example, if you are looking at a sales report that includes a breakdown of sales by menu item, you can select a menu item to view a drill-down report containing sales, tax, and service charge details specific to the selected menu item.

Reporting and Analytics allows you to leverage the following types of reports:

Table 1-1 Report Types

I Want to Use	I Should Use
Pre-defined reports that show information targeting specific business operations.	Core Reports (myInsight)
Reports that can be customized with selected subjects and columns using a Microsoft Excel plug-in.	Microsoft Excel Reports (iQuery)
Reports that can be customized with selected data columns that update in real time.	Interactive Reports