docHarbor Online Report Mining
Compiling and retrieving reports for management, sales and back-office personnel should not have to be slow and tedious, inefficient and costly. Yet, this has been a challenge for every enterprise, business, government and educational venue since documents were first produced.
First, where are the documents you need and what do they contain? Next, how can you get specific information from them to meet your present and future needs? For some, mountains of paper burden the process. For others, it is the nightmare of multimedia not being leveraged by the company network, let alone the web.
Report Mining from the docHarbor Online repository delivers the ability to take data within reports and apply a template or model against them to turn the information into a live database that users can access, sort, filter, summarize, and graph.
In other words, report mining turns your repository or archived data into up-to-the-minute information, the kind of management gold you need to make decisions ahead of the competition. It puts an end to the old, slow and tedious process of having to compile reports and retired information, and then assess it. Gone are the inefficiencies, added costs, and mountains of paper � not to mention the potential for omission and inaccuracy.
Think about the kind of information you can mine from existing, day-to-day documents such as invoices, sales data, statements, contracts, account activity, receipts, ledger balances and general customer information. Anyone in management will tell you that spells strategic advantage.
Benefits
- Reduce costs
- Increase productivity
- Total outsource solution
- Web-enabled 24x7
- No technical staff requirement
- Controlled, secure access
- Send e-mail advisories when reports are available
- Reduce search times
- Enable fast document turnaround
- Reduce or eliminate print and associated costs
- Establish a central repository
Report Mining Features
The docHarbor Report Mining capability takes structured text data within reports � commonly referred to as greenbar or line data reports � and applies a template or model against them to turn the information into a live, immediately usable database.
For example, by modeling a particular report type, the data in the columns and header can then be analyzed with functionality similar to a spreadsheet, where rows represent individual detailed transactions.
The detail data can then be analyzed in various ways including; sorting, filtering and totaling data; adding new calculated fields of data; using formulas and functions; producing summaries of data with subtotals, grand totals, and automatic graphs; opening multiple copies of the same report in one report mining session for trends and other analysis such as analyzing three monthly reports at the same time to perform a quarterly analysis; or exporting desired data to MS Excel, Access, and other applications.
Other functions key to report mining include the ability to search across multiple reports for specific information on the same or different host computers, and then create a statistical report and/or consolidated view of the data.
docHarbor Online requires no capital investment or proprietary software on the end user's desktop. All the user needs is a web browser and free Adobe viewing software. docHarbor's experienced experts will capture a company's report needs and quickly have an inquiry/retrieval website up and running, typically in less than ninety days.
By outsourcing and web enabling the report retrieval system, a company's production and infrastructure costs will be reduced. With docHarbor providing the technical expertise, report applications are more quickly implemented � saving time and money in end-user training and program development.