Oracle CRM On Demand Combined Analyses

CHAPTER 6Filtering Combined Analyses

If you were unable to filter data, your reports would not be much more useful than simply exporting data from the database into your favorite spreadsheet program. Filtering is a critical component of all reporting, but is also an essential part of the design of some combined analyses. We saw this in our negative reports where in order to effectively eliminate some data from the report results, we relied on filters to isolate the correct records for each criteria report. Reports also usually require that we focus on specific segments of data. That could be data related to a particular group of users, a specific territory, a certain time frame, or any of the nearly limitless views and classifications of data. ...