Report

A report is typically a short summary of the data that is evolved from a business operation. They are mostly in the form of a narrative, graph/chart form, or tabular form. Reports are mostly used to analyze a business operation to improve business or to keep track of transactions for auditing purposes.

Reporting tools are programs that help users and developers to visually design reports by using the Reporting Tools library. Reporting tools provide all the most important functions required to create nice reports in very less time through a rich and simple-to-use GUI. This can help people who do not know Reporting tools library to create simple reports and understand the XML syntax by taking a look at the generated code. This also helps skilled report designers to compose complex reports and thereby, saving a lot of time.