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Principles and processes of making reports and their verification in the selected reporting tools
Čelikovský, Filip ; Maryška, Miloš (advisor) ; Pesek, Jan (referee)
The diploma thesis covers the principles of dashboard or report design. The first part of thesis is focused on introduction to the issue of reporting, based on current literature. There are the definitions of basic terms, position of reporting in corporate structure, history and basic division in this part. Further, this thesis is focused on information design. There are descriptions of basic visualization elements commonly used in reporting, after that the issue of using colours and finally the information about the appropriate distribution of these elements on the surface of the dashboard or report. In the practical part of the thesis, there is primarily created the methodology of comparison of reporting tools. The goal of this methodology is to compare two specific tools for obtaining information about the qualities of compared reporting tools. As a part of this methodology, there is also a list of required functions and also a few user criteria which are assessed based on the practical use of these tools during creation of specific dashboard. Complex design of this sample dashboard is also part of the methodology. Methodology was proved by its application to two compared tools, namely the SAP Crystal Reports 2011 and Tableau Desktop 8.1. Result of this comparison contained a lot of information about the tools which can be used by reader as a basis for creation his or her own opinion on the tools. Author stated his own recommendation which of the compared tools he would choose for future work in dashboard design.
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Comparison of commercial and Open Source Business Intelligence reporting tools
Bednář, Jan ; Slánský, David (advisor) ; Pour, Jan (referee)
Diploma thesis deals with comparison of commercial and Open Source Business Intelligence (BI) reporting tools. The main aim of the thesis is to provide a list of BI reporting tools and their further comparison. Evaluation is based on a set of criteria. Every criterium has its assigned value that represents the importance of the criterium in a given group. The same procedure is applied on the groups. The final evaluation is based on defined values of these groups. The output of the thesis is a table structured into five parts according to defined groups of criteria. The second part of the thesis walks the reader through the practical showcase of implementation one of the selected tools that is SAP Business Objects Enterprise 4.0. At the beginning, there is a description of report proposal that contains graphical design and functionality requirements. Next part shows the whole process in detail.
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Data visualizations in BI reporting tools
Brož, Ondřej ; Pour, Jan (advisor) ; Štoček, Milan (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with the Business Intelligence reporting tools and more especially with their data visualization capabilities. There are a lot of different reporting and analytic tools focusing for example on ad-hoc query, tool for creating dashboards or scorecards, visual discovery tools and advanced analytical tools for data mining etc. This work, however, is focused especially on selected enterprise reporting tools and data visualization tools as well as their possibilities of data isualizations, i.e. using different types of graphs and other possible advanced data visualizations. The Business Intelligence fundamentals together with the possible the reporting and analysis visual outputs are described at the beginning of this diploma work. The reporting itself is also putted into the context of the Business Intelligence solution. The next section is focus on the visual possibilities of data visualization in BI reporting tools. It means that I created the list of possible BI data visualizations with the detail specifications and showing examples on each of them. After this part, there are shown proper data visualizations for each of the selected BI domains, like finance, sales, marketing and human resources. This output belong to one of the main contributions of this work and also could be practically useful in the process of report creation and selection for Clever Decision's BI reporting needs. In the next chapter I compare the visual possibilities for each of the selected BI reporting tools according to Gartner. To this purpose the official documentations will be used as well as my personal experience gained from using some of selected reporting tools. In the last section there are detail views for each of two selected advanced data visualizations including a detail specification on each of them as well as his possible usage in practice and possibilities for further extension as well. The source of information in this section will be professional electronic resources focused on data visualization, design and so on.
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