In the application system, in the form of documents and other forms of information stored is the basis of a variety of reports (data analysis) is the need for results.
For example, in the enterprise supply chain, will be a period of time all the procurement documents to analyze and summarize, you can get the cost of raw materials analysis, the proportion of supplier supply analysis and other reports.
Reports are generally provided by a variety of documents to provide raw data, by the stored procedures (or query statement) through the analysis and integration of data results, and then set up by the program will be converted into a variety of data by the results of the form presented (tables \ text \ charts ...)