Reporting
Once a company is doing business online, it will need to know how much business its online store is generating. You should supply your company’s executives with some type of reporting functionality that shows purchase trends over time, which products are profitable, and so on. To build such reports, you could use Crystal Reports with the <cfreport> tag or build your own reporting templates, perhaps illustrating the data visually using ColdFusion’s dynamic graphing and charting capabilities (see Chapter 16, “Graphing, Printing, and Reporting”).
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