Written reports are documents which present focused, salient content to a specific audience. Reports are often used to display the result of an experiment, investigation, or inquiry. The audience may be public or private, an individual or the public in general. Reports are used in government, business, education, science, and other fields.
Reports often use persuasive elements, such as graphics, images, voice, or specialized vocabulary in order to persuade that specific audience to undertake an action. One of the most common formats for presenting reports is IMRAD IMRAD is an acronym for Introduction, Methods, Results And Discussion. It relates to the standard main structure of a scientific paper, which typically includes these four sections in this order:: Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion. This structure is standard for the genre because it mirrors the traditional publication of scientific research and summons the ethos and credibility of that discipline. Reports are not required to follow this pattern, and may use alternative patterns like the problem-solution format.
Additional elements often used to persuade readers include: headings to indicate topics, to more complex formats including charts, tables, figures, pictures, tables of contents, abstracts, summaries, appendices, footnotes, hyperlinks, and references.
Some examples of reports are: scientific reports, recommendation reports, white papers A white paper is an authoritative report or guide that often addresses issues and how to solve them. White papers are used to educate readers and help people make decisions. They are often used in politics, business, and technical fields. In commercial use, the term "white paper" has also come to refer to documents used by businesses as, annual reports An Annual report is a comprehensive report on a company's activities throughout the preceding year. Annual reports are intended to give shareholders and other interested people information about the company's activities and financial performance. Most jurisdictions require companies to prepare and disclose annual reports, and many require the, auditor's reports, workplace reports, census A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses include agriculture, business, and traffic. In reports, trip reports, progress reports, investigative reports, budget reports, policy reports, demographic reports, credit reports Credit history or credit report is, in many countries, a record of an individual's or company's past borrowing and repaying, including information about late payments and bankruptcy. The term "credit reputation" can either be used synonymous to credit history or to credit score, appraisal reports, inspection reports, military reports, bound reports, etc.
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Enterprise reporting
With the dramatic expansion of information technology, and the desire for increased competitiveness in corporations, there has been an increase in the use of computing power to produce unified reports which join different views of the enterprise in one place.[1] Termed Enterprise Reporting, this process involves querying data sources with different logical models A logical data model in systems engineering is a representation of an organization's data, organized in terms entities and relationships and is independent of any particular data management technology to produce a human readable report—for example, a computer user has to query the Human Resources Human resources is a term used to describe the individuals who comprise the workforce of an organization, although it is also applied in labor economics to, for example, business sectors or even whole nations. Human resources is also the name of the function within an organization charged with the overall responsibility for implementing strategies databases and the Capital Improvements databases to show how efficiently space is being used across an entire corporation.
Enterprise Reporting is a fundamental part of the larger movement towards improved business intelligence Business Intelligence refers to computer-based techniques used in spotting, digging-out, and analyzing business data, such as sales revenue by products and/or departments or associated costs and incomes and knowledge management Knowledge management comprises a range of strategies and practices used in an organization to identify, create, represent, distribute, and enable adoption of insights and experiences. Such insights and experiences comprise knowledge, either embodied in individuals or embedded in organizational processes or practice. Often implementation involves extract, transform, and load The first part of an ETL process involves extracting the data from the source systems. Most data warehousing projects consolidate data from different source systems. Each separate system may also use a different data organization / format. Common data source formats are relational databases and flat files, but may include non-relational database (ETL) procedures in coordination with a data warehouse A data warehouse is a repository of an organization's electronically stored data, designed to facilitate reporting and analysis and then using one or more reporting tools The following is a list of notable reporting software. Reporting software is used to generate human-readable reports from various data sources. While reports can be distributed in print form or via email Electronic mail, commonly called email or e-mail, is a method of exchanging digital messages across the Internet or other computer networks. Email systems are based on a store-and-forward model in which email server computer systems accept, forward, deliver and store messages on behalf of users, who only need to connect to the email infrastructure,, they are typically accessed via a corporate intranet An intranet is a private computer network that uses Internet Protocol technologies to securely share any part of an organization's information or network operating system within that organization. The term is used in contrast to internet, a network between organizations, and instead refers to a network within an organization. Sometimes the term.
See also
- Customer Relationship Management Customer relationship management is a broadly recognized, widely-implemented strategy for managing and nurturing a company’s interactions with clients and sales prospects. It involves using technology to organize, automate, and synchronize business processes—principally sales activities, but also those for marketing, customer service, and
- Data quality Data are of high quality "if they are fit for their intended uses in operations, decision making and planning" . Alternatively, the data are deemed of high quality if they correctly represent the real-world construct to which they refer. Furthermore, apart from these definitions, as data volume increases, the question of internal
- Enterprise Application Integration Enterprise Application Integration is an integration framework composed of a collection of technologies and services which form a middleware to enable integration of systems and applications across the enterprise
- Enterprise Resource Planning Enterprise resource planning is an integrated computer-based system used to manage internal and external resources including tangible assets, financial resources, materials, and human resources. It is a software architecture whose purpose is to facilitate the flow of information between all business functions inside the boundaries of the
- Decision Support System Decision support systems constitute a class of computer-based information systems including knowledge-based systems that support decision-making activities
- Global Reporting Initiative The Global Reporting Initiative produces one of the world's most prevalent standards for sustainability reporting - also known as ecological footprint - guidelines. Sustainability reporting is a form of value reporting where an organization publicly communicates their economic, environmental, and social performance. GRI seeks to make
- Management Information Systems A management information system is a subset of the overall internal controls of a business covering the application of people, documents, technologies, and procedures by management accountants to solve business problems such as costing a product, service or a business-wide strategy. Management information systems are distinct from regular
- Grey Literature International Steering Committee During this conference, the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (Rome, Italy) presented guidelines for the production of scientific and technical reports documents included in the wider category of grey literature (GL) defined at the International Conferences on Grey Literature held in Luxembourg (1997) and in New York (2004) – as “information International guidelines for the production of scientific and technical reports
References
Reports or an explanation about them:
- ^ Moeller, Robert (2007). COSO Enterprise Risk Management: Understanding the New Integrated ERM Framework. Wiley. ISBN 0471741159.
- Link, Morton and Hill, Winfrey (1970). Hill-Link Minority Report of the Presidential Commission on Obscenity and Pornography. Random House.
- United States Immigration Commission (1911). Abstracts Of Reports Of The Immigration Commission, With Conclusions And Recommendations And Views Of The Minority. Kessinger Publishing. ISBN 1436616131.
The process of writing reports:
- Blicq, Ronald (2003). "Technically-Write!". Prentice Hall. ISBN 0131148788.
- Gerson, Sharon and Gerson, Steven (2005). Technical Writing: Process and Product. Prentice Hall. ISBN 0131196642.
- Lannon, John (2007). Technical Communication. Longman. ISBN 0205559573.
External links
- A Guide to Enterprise Reporting
- GLISC - Guidelines for the production of scientific and technical reports
- DynamicReports, an open source Java API reporting library
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