Hi Guys,
This post is taken from http://blogs.adobe.com/digitalmarketing/analytics/reporting-vs-analysis-whats-the-difference/
Thank you Brent Dykes such a nice explanation .
As a BI developer we ought to know the theoretical concepts hence I've made a notes on the same from the Brent's post.
Difference between Reporting and Analysis – Theory
Reporting and analysis are very different in terms of
their purpose, tasks, outputs, delivery, and value
Reporting
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Analysis
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Purpose
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Definition
1. The
process of organizing data into
informational summaries in order to monitor how different areas of
a business are performing.
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Definition
1.The
process of exploring data and reports in order to extract meaningful
insights, which can be used to better understand and improve business
performance.
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2. Reporting translates raw data into information
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2. Analysis transforms data and information into insights.
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3. Good
reporting should raise questions
about the business from its end users
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3.The
goal of analysis is to answer questions
by interpreting the data at a deeper level and providing actionable recommendations
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4. Reporting
shows you what is happening
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4. Analysis
focuses on explaining why it is happening
and what you can do about it.
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Tasks
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5.Reporting:
Building, configuring, consolidating, organizing, formatting, and summarizing.
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5. Analysis: focuses on different tasks such as questioning, examining, interpreting, comparing, and confirming.
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Outputs/Approach
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6. Reporting
follows a push approach
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6.Analysis
follows a pull approach
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7. Reports
are pushed to users who are then expected to extract meaningful insights
and take appropriate actions for themselves (i.e., self-serve).
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7.Particular
data is pulled by an analyst in order to answer specific business questions.
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8. Types
·
Canned reports,
dashboards, and alerts.
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Dashboard:
These custom-made reports combine different KPIs and reports to provide a
comprehensive, high-level view of business performance for specific
audiences. Dashboards may include data from various data sources and are
also usually fairly static.
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8.Types
·
Ad hoc responses
·
Analysis presentations
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Update : 27th April 2015
My personal opinion on CE editions
BI Solutions
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Pentaho CE
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Jasper CE
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Reports
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(Y)
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I recommend it b’z it has pixel perfect report designer which is standalone
(Ă¼)
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(Y)
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I recommend it b’z it has pixel perfect report designer Jasper Studio
or iReport
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Dashboards
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(Y)
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I recommend it b’z there is a powerful dashboard tool available.
(C-Tools)
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(X)
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NO CE tool available for dashboards so won’t recommend it
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Analysis Desktop tool
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(Y)
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I recommend it (schema workbench)
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(Y)
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I recommend it (schema workbench)
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Analysis Server tools
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(Y)
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I recommend it – There are new tech 2 to 3 server tools which are new
visualization tools on server
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(X)
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I recommend it on less priority b’z on the CE server the old
traditional Jpivot server tool only available.
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ETL
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(Y)
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Highly recommend it
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(Y)
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I recommend Talend Open studio over Jasper ETL
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Ad-hoc Reporting
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(X)
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Recommend it if you have only table kind of reports to be generated
ad-hocly
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(X)
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No CE tool is available so won’t recommend it
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