CIS105: Computer Applications & Information Systems Lect. 15 ​

Chapter 15: Business System Reporting ​

Final months schedule

• Today 4/9: Chapter 15/16
• Thursday 4/11: Final SQL Assessment
• Tuesday 4/16; Final Lecture and Final Exam Review
• Thursday 4/18: MKT
• 4/23 & 4/26: Zoom Office Hours
• Final Exam: 4/25 - 4/26
• Final day to complete all missing assignments: 4/28

15.1: Business System Reporting ​

• Defined as informaitonal output from an information system to facilitate decision-making.
• Report are periodic in nature
  • Daily, weekly, monthly, etc
  • Demand / Ad Hoc Reports
• Strategic vs. Tactical decisions
• Three main aspects of reporting:
  • Reporting summarization levels
  • Analysis and predictive reporting
  • Management Level Reporting
• Reporting Summarization Levels: The level of detail or summarization in the report
• Transaction Processing System (TPS)
  • Uses databases to store data
  • Groundwork for all other reports
  • Highest level of detail
• Analysis and Predictive Reporting
  • Use TPS as a foundation
  • Trend reporting
  • Graphical repors
  • Budget, forecast, and variance reports
• Management Level reporting
  • Top-level executive reporting
  • Management reporting
  • Supervisory reporting

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