What KoolReport can be?

KoolReport is a poweful PHP Framework for reporting. It can be a sale report for printing. It can be a dashboard to centralize information. And it can be a business intelligent tool to support management decision. It is you who decide what KoolReport will be.

There are three terms that people used to confuse: reporting, dashboard, business intelligence. Reporting normally is related to summarize the past information, analyze data to come up with good information of what happened ex. last year sale report. When we talk about dashboard, we talk about what is going on right now , the data is gathered from many sources and presented to you in an interactive format of charts and tables. Different from others two, business intelligence is working toward future. Data from the past are also gathered and analyzed but not only for purpose of reporting but predicting the incoming future. Business intelligence tool uses past data to discover pattern and use them to guess what may happen. In sum, reporting is for the past, dashboard is present and business intelligence is the for future.

KoolReport can be your reporting tools, dashboard or a business intelligence tool.

KoolReport can be your reporting tool. By getting sale data in the past and perform aggregation, it will form a nice printing report with beautiful charts and graphs.

KoolReport can act like a dashboard tool because it allow you to gather data from various sources: MySQL, CSV, Excel and from Google Adwords, Analytics, Salesforce etc.. and let you know what is going on with your business.

KoolReport also can be business intelligence tool. In near future, we want to have packages to perform regression and prediction. Your past data will be used to train model and KoolReport will give you predicted data visualized in tables or charts. That will be amazing.

Thanks for reading. It is just a thought of us about what KoolReport is, what future it can be and will be.

Please try KoolReport and if you like it please share with others.

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