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Running Reports in Siebel Energy

The Price Comparison feature provides the following 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.

Running the Price Comparison Report

To run the Price Comparison report, follow this procedure.

To run the Price Comparison Administrative Report

1. Navigate to the Product Comparison screen.
2. In the toolbar, click the Reports icon.

   The Run Report pane appears.

3. In the Run Report pane, complete the appropriate fields.

   Some fields are described in the following table.

   Field	Description
   Report Name	Select EPC Administrative Report. The available reports apply to the screen and view to which you navigate.
   Output Type	Select the output type for the report.
   Report Locale	Select the locale for the report.

4. In the EPC Admin Parameters dialog box, set the constraints for the report, and click Finish.

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

5. Click Submit.

   The report runs.

6. Click My Reports to navigate to the Reports view of the BI Publisher Reports screen.

   A record for the run report appears in the Reports view.

7. Drill down on the Report Name field in the Reports view to display the report in a new window.

   You can print the report by using the print feature for the application in which it appears.

Running the Competitive Pricing Report

To run the Competitive Pricing report, follow this procedure.

To run the Competitive Pricing report

1. Navigate to the Product Comparison screen, then the Relationships view.
2. Click CP Report.

   The SmartScript session used with the Price Comparison feature begins. However, to run the report, you do not have to supply answers for the region, supplier, or rate plan. If you do not answer these questions, then 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 is generated.