Reporting and Exporting

Reporting provides a method for departments to access and interrogate the Bill of Material within iCenter. The reporting feature is a flexible tool that gives organizations the ability to dissect, filter, sort and group data to improve decision making and provide better communication of the bill of material.

Reports

iCenter is equipped with a robust reporting editor to help create customized reports. Through the utilization of VB Script the reporting engine allows programmers to create and customize the reports needed to communicate Bill of Materials. With the iCenter reporting engine organizations have the ability to incorporate mathematical / textual functions in the creation of their reports. Some examples of the type of reports that can be created within iCenter include: Parts-Only Report, Indented Bill of Material Report, Quotation Report, Cut-list Report and much more. The reports generated can then be printed and shared with other departments.

Exporting

Reports can be exported to many different file formats such as Microsoft Excel®, Adobe Acrobat PDF®, HTML and Text. The exports can be formatted to integrate with other downstream applications such as document management and ERP systems.

iCenter also comes equiped with a full-featured export engine. Exports can be configured and stored to output various types of data. Both Document iProperties and Bill of Materials information can be written to Microsoft Access®, Microsoft Excel® and XML. There are many options to choose from to design the proper export format and layout that is required.