## Analytic reporting

Page Report Studio provides you with a convenient and powerful tool to analyze your business information. By providing secure web access to business data and making the data interactive, Page Report Studiofacilitates data analysis.

Page Report Studio enhances the utility of production reports by making them interactive - allowing you to define your view of data to make it more useful. Through a user-friendly web GUI, report contents can be easily navigated, drilled, and viewed in detail.

Page Report Studio uses the Resource View panel to provide a business-oriented view of databases. This view shields end users from having to understand database connectivity and SQL syntax while allowing IT professionals to maintain control of business data and to ensure its integrity. Using the Resource View panel, Page Report Studio dynamically builds SQL statements to retrieve data and automatically generate multidimensional data views. These views contain the underlying data structure which makes data analysis possible.

The following topics describe the analytic reporting features:

- An introduction to business views
- Applying filters
- Using view elements
- Using dynamic resources
- Drilling through the report data
- Manipulating data components
- Adding conditional formats to fields
- Converting between components
- Sorting report data
- Searching for text in a report

Note: A component created in JReport Designer is based on a dataset, while that created in Page Report Studio is based on a business view. For the former, if you want to do analytic actions in Page Report Studio, such as adding a view element, converting the component type, drilling it, or changing chart definition, Page Report Studio will need to convert its fields to view elements (for details, see Converting query-based components to business view-based in the JReport Designer User's Guide).