When setting your recurrence, is it daily, is it weekly, or is it monthly? Do I execute the report on Monday, on Friday, on Saturday, what have you. So, all of that can be pre-configured. What that means to you is the system will kick off and run the reports. The reports will be output based on the options that you specify. So that these reports can be when there the schedule run occurs.
They can be emailed out. They can be created as PDF files. They could be stored to a central network server, if you would like. Then you can have your users directed to that server. They can be published to Microsoft office or even be used in a collaboration tool such as SharePoint. This report scheduler provides an additional degree of automation.
For instance, let’s say you finished with your monthly close or your period close, and you want to take Friday off, but you know everyone is expecting reports in there inbox at 5 p.m., on Friday. Well, it's set up in the scheduler. You can go ahead and enjoy your vacation, and it will take care of the work for you. So, think of all the possibilities that you have.
So to summarize, with this great analysis tool, you have access to all of your information without memorizing file names and without having to do the complicated technical joins of your tables. You can create reports about your employees, your positions, your benefit data, et cetera. You have full access to HR and payroll information. You saw how easy it was to create a pivot table over your information. You saw pivot tables, graphics, and all the rest of it. And now you have the added ability to schedule your report distribution.