Introduction

Reports are the key to any business process. A successful ERP implementation is gauged by the efficient reports that can be generated through the data present in the system. Reports are introspective tools that help top-level business users to asses the condition of their business and help them make critical decisions.

This chapter will help you understand the development artifacts related to reports development, by designing a simple report which is broken down into smaller recipes. We will design a report that is applied with simple formatting capabilities and then deployed to the server to make it available for the end users, after which it is made accessible inside the rich client.