Developing custom advanced reports

BMC TrueSight Capacity Optimization offers the following methods for creating custom advanced reports:

  • By integrating with TrueSight Smart Reporting
  • Using Business Intelligence and Reporting Tool (BIRT) 

Integrating with TrueSight Smart Reporting

Use TrueSight Smart Reporting - Platform to create, administer, and publish custom advanced reports for your entities seamlessly. The integration of TrueSight Capacity Optimization with TrueSight Smart Reporting - Platform enables you to use simple drag-and-drop actions to create complex reports. BMC recommends that you use TrueSight Smart Reporting - Platform to create advanced reports as it provides live editing of a report template via web browser, live preview, and easy customization of all aspects of a report. To enable the integration, you must install TrueSight Smart Reporting - Platform. For details, see Integrating-with-TrueSight-Smart-Reporting.

License requirements

TrueSight Smart Reporting - Platform is available as a separately licensed product. To use the reporting capabilities in TrueSight Smart Reporting - Platform, you must purchase a license for it.

Embedded custom advanced reports created using BIRT

TrueSight Capacity Optimization offers the possibility to create custom Report Templates in addition to those available from the product as out-of-the-box Advanced Report Templates and to Basic Report Templates that can be directly created by users from the BMC TrueSight Capacity Optimization Console.

These custom Advanced Report Templates are based on Eclipse Business Intelligence and Reporting Tool (BIRT) and can created using the BIRT Report Designer, a graphical user interface that is incorporated in the BMC TrueSight Capacity Optimization Integration Studio. The BMC TrueSight Capacity Optimization Integration Studio provides additional features to support the design and the publication custom Advanced Report Templates.

In general, the process of creating Advanced Report Template involves the following activities:

  • definition of one or more SQL queries definition, to extract and summarizes data from Public Views or optionally from Data Marts.
  • design of the graphical layout of the report.

To learn more about how to create Advanced Report Templates using BIRT, see:

 

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