Crystal Clear Reporting in partnership with Businessflow

The Businessflow partnership makes data access, information presentation and information delivery affordable, reliable and fast. Together, Galorath & Business flow help you meet a broad spectrum of reporting needs.

Whether you use SEER-SEM™, SEER-H™ or SEER-DFM™, the job is only half done when the estimate is created.
Communication of the project estimate plus the risks, opportunities and assumptions to your internal and external customers can be a challenging task in itself.

Galorath International is pleased to announce that they are currently working in partnership with Crystal Reports expert Dave Hall of Businessflow Limited to provide SEER-DFM, SEER-H and SEER-SEM users a framework for the creation of complex, multi-dimensional reports using the flexible export functionality of the SEER solutions in tandem with the power of Crystal Reports.

Via a simple interface the user can select one or more project files and one or more reports and generate the output using the Crystal Report writer. These reports can be as simple as the graphical example shown below, or more complex, combining multiple projects into a single report with additional supporting data being merged from third party data sources such as ERP.

Many companies already utilize Crystal Reports as their report generator of choice, enabling them to customize the data extracts from existing enterprise systems. The extension of SEER into the corporate reporting domain will reinforce its position within the IT landscape.
Dave Hall says “Using the Crystal Report Viewer and a command line builder means that you can make information rich reports available across the enterprise using a variety of formats, tailoring the output from the SEER model to the individual needs of the person viewing the report without having to give everyone access to the main report writer.”

Crystal Reports offers major benefits over other methods such as spreadsheets.
These include:

  • Reporting Alerts—exception reporting
  • Control over revised data and liberation of information
  • Simplified customized graphs
  • The ability to summarize / group data
  • The removal of duplicate entry and corrupt data
  • Merging of multiple data sources
  • Intranet available reporting

The reporting solution was demonstrated by Businessflow at the recent Galorath International Users Group Conference in May at Silverstone UK.