| Term |
Definition |
Paging |
The ability to organize and present your report result records in smaller, easier-to-manage sections rather than all at once on the same page. Users can then easily navigate through the pages, which is useful as most users do not want to view hundreds or thousands of records at the same time. |
Parameterized Report |
A report that uses input values for processing, for example, allowing users to select from a pick list to show data by a particular product category or region. Parameters are typically used in a query that selects the data for the report. |
Personalization |
Delivering appropriate content that is tailor-made for your end users' needs. Logi Info offers valuable personalization to your end users by allowing them to select and analyze the data that is most important to them. |
Pivot Table |
To 'pivot' is to 'slice-and-dice' your data to get different views of the same data. A pivot table usually refers to a tool that lets you look at your data in different ways to obtain a desired report, specifically it allows you to reorganize and summarize selected columns and rows of data in your database tables without changing the data that is actually contained in the tables. |
Portal |
A Web site that typically provides personalized capabilities to its visitors. A portal brings content from different sources together and can enable collaboration, information consumption, and other applications or functionality for end users. With the LogiXML Reporting Product, Logi Info, you can easily build fully functioning portals to push your business intelligence most effectively to your end users. |
Query |
The specification or statement written in a special programming language, like SQL, that describes how to pull or calculate a result from a database. |
RDBMS |
Short for Relational Database Management System. Database technology that was designed to support high volume transaction processing (OLTP) and is typically the foundation for a data warehouse. |
Relational Database |
A collection of data items that is organized as a set of related tables from which data can be accessed or reassembled in many different ways without the need to reorganize the database tables. |
Report Archive |
As your organization grows and as you build more and more reports, storing and organizing your reports becomes increasingly important. An archive is a collection of reports, which have been created during the course of an organization's history, used for storing and organizing a company's myriad reports—similar to how you' file away' your important business-related paper documents. The term 'archive' usually refers to the location in which these files are kept as well. |
Report Definition |
The XML file that is created when you create reports with LogiXML reporting products. This XML file defines the specifications of your reports. One report definition is equivalent to one dynamic Web page. Every Logi reporting application contains at least one report definition, and developers will create multiple definitions as their reporting applications grow. |
Report Developer |
See developer. |
Report Lifecycle Management |
An important strategy for organizing all of your corporate reports specifically in relation to the historical relevance and importance of that information. Over time, the value of information may increase or decrease. For example, an urgent business chart may become a critical element for legal reasons a year from now, or it may just become more data cluttering your storage. Based on its changing value to your organization, your information requires different levels of accessibility and protection. Logi Reporting Center provides these important lifecycle management features for the reports you create with LogiXML's managed reporting products. |
Report Outputs |
Refers to the formats to which LogiXML reports can be exported, which include PDF, Excel, Word, CSV, and HTML. |
Reporting |
Reporting is the process of accessing data, formatting it, and delivering it inside and outside the organization. It is the foundation of a business intelligence (BI) strategy - it provides users the most-requested pieces of information reliably and securely, via the Web or embedded in enterprise applications. |
Reporting Application |
Another way to refer to the reports you create with Logi Reporting products. When you create a report using Logi Reporting products you actually create a fully operational Web application. One report definition is equivalent to one dynamic Webpage. |
Role-based Security |
In Logi Reporting products, this security feature lets you control who has access to something, for example, a report, a column of data, etc. You can designate a role category for each user in the system and then you can allow or restrict that role's access. |
Scheduling |
The ability to start an automated process at a particular or recurring time in the future. |
Slice-and-dice |
A term used to describe the ability to modify how report data appears or break information down (without modifying the actual data) so users can see the information most meaningful to them or examine it from different viewpoints. For example, it can refer to the ability to select and view different columns, select a subset of data, perform different calculations, and so on |
Sorting |
Ability to arrange and view data by particular criteria For example, in a report you could sort your report results by Customer Last Name and/or Product ID. |
SQL |
Short for Structured Query Language. The programming language used to get information from and update a relational databse system. |
SQL Server |
Microsoft's RDBMS product. |
Table |
The collection of data elements (cells) that are organized, defined and stored in your database as horizontal rows and vertical columns where each item can be uniquely idientified by a label or key or by its position in relation to other items. |