Printing, distributing, and storing reports—the very thought can be enough to bring tears to your eyes. Paper and labor costs spiral out of control and mountains of paper threaten to swamp your files. A comprehensive report management solution can save your money and your sanity.
There’s no question that System i report management can painful. Do these problems sound familiar?
- One of your staff members comes in early every day just to attend to the printers.
- Your operators must burst and distribute reports manually.
- People complain because they don't have their reports first thing in the morning.
- People lose their copies of reports and ask you to rerun them.
- You spend too much money on overnight delivery to speed reports to distant offices.
- You want to cut the cost of printing reports but don't know where to begin.
- You need to create a retention system for critical financial, security, and change management reports.
Help/Systems' report management solution addresses all these problems and more. With Robot/REPORTS part of Help/Systems suite of automated operations software , you can:
- "Slice and dice" your spooled files to create report "segments" for specific audiences.
- Convert spooled files to common electronic formats, such as .pdf, .xls, and .html for easy, speedy, and cheap electronic distribution.
- Make reports available for online viewing through green screen, graphical, or Web-based interfaces. (Your users can see reports as soon as they've finished processing. There's no delay for printing, bursting, and distributing reports as there is for printed copies.)
- Provide custom archiving (retention) for each report.
- Retrieve reports from electronic archive, avoiding the need for report reruns.
- Analyze reports and make decisions. (For example, if month-end doesn't balance, tell it to page an expert.)
- Save lots of money by reducing the number of reports you print. (Many customers report cutting paper purchases in half!)
Discover the solution to your System i report management blues.
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