Working with Business Intelligence
Loftware Spectrum® Business Intelligence (BI) provides you with interactive, analytics capabilities and real-time reporting for your labeling activities. Default dashboards and reports are delivered as a starting point, but BI also offers the ability to create configurable dashboards and ad-hoc reports with the capability to access and incorporate data sources from outside of Spectrum.
Spectrum BI allows you to:
- Instantly view default dashboards and run predefined reports included with the BI solution
- Quickly modify and customize default dashboards and predefined reports
- Easily configure new dashboards and create ad-hoc reports using drag and drop
- Access reporting data via business rules
- View and print reports
- Save and export reports for use in other applications
- Schedule reports for distribution through email and storage in the repository
The following are descriptions of the included predefined dashboards and reports.
| Dashboard | Description |
|---|---|
|
Operational Dashboard |
Top 10 Printed Label Templates bar chart, Top 10 Active Devices bar chart, Top 10 Logged in Users pie chart, and Total Devices by Family and Model tree char |
|
Printing Activity Dashboard |
Graphical views of Labels Printed by Day and Labels Printed By Hour |
| Report | Description | Data |
|---|---|---|
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Active Users |
Table displaying all users who signed in during a specified period of time |
Username, First Name, Last Name, Last Login |
|
Configured Device Settings |
Table displaying device settings for a selected device |
Property, Value |
|
Configured Devices |
Table displaying all configured devices |
FQN (fully-qualified name), Device Family Name, Device Model Display Name, Connection Type |
|
Device Modification Details |
Table displaying details of modifications for a selected device |
Audit Action Date, Audit Action, Change Type, Property Name, Previous Value, New Value, Property Location, Username |
|
Device Modifications By Day |
Bar chart displaying the number of device modifications per day |
Date, Total Device Modifications |
|
Devices With Attributes |
Table displaying devices with a specified attribute |
FQN, Property, Value, Device Model Name, Device Family Name |
|
Documents By Folder and Type |
Crosstab report displaying the number of documents in each folder |
Folder FQN, Document Type, Count |
|
Inactive Users |
Table listing all users who did not sign in during a specified period of time |
Username, First Name, Last Name, Last Login |
|
Label Modification Details |
Table displaying the details of modifications made to labels |
Audit Action Date, Audit Action, Change Type, Property Name, Previous Value, New Value, Object Location |
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Labels By Folder |
Crosstab report listing the number of labels in each folder |
Parent Folder Name, Label and Version, Count |
|
Labels Printed |
Crosstab report listing the number of each label that was printed to each device |
Document FQN, Device FQN, Total Printed |
|
Labels Printed By Day |
Bar chart displaying the number of labels that were printed per day |
Date, Total Labels Printed |
|
Labels Printed By Hour |
Bar chart displaying the number of labels that were printed per hour |
Date, Total Labels Printed |
|
Labels Printed Detail |
Table displaying the details of labels that were printed |
Document FQN, Document Version, Modified By, Device FQN, Create Date |
|
Top 10 Active Devices |
Bar chart displaying the top 10 devices with the most print jobs |
Total Print Jobs, Device FQN |
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Top 10 Logged In Users |
Pie chart displaying the top 10 users that signed in over a specified period of time |
Number of Logins |
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Top 10 Printed Label Templates |
Bar chart displaying the top 10 labels that were printed over a specified time |
Printed Count, Device FQN |
|
Top 50 Longest Jobs |
Table displaying the 50 jobs that took the longest time to complete during a specified time period |
Device FQN, Document FQN, Start Time, End Time, Quantity, Duration (minutes) |
|
Total Device Modifications |
Bar chart displaying the top 10 devices that were modified the most over a specified period of time |
Total Modifications, Device FQN |
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Total Devices By Family |
Bar chart showing the total number of devices per family |
Device Family, Total Devices |
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Total Devices By Family and Model |
Tree map chart showing the total number of devices per family and model |
Total Devices |
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Total Labels Printed By Device |
Tree map displaying the total number of labels printed for top 20 devices with the most print jobs |
Total Printed |
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Total Logins By Hour |
Bar chart showing the number of sign ins that occurred during each hour of the day over a specified period of time |
Hour, Number of Logins |
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Total Print Job Errors By Device |
Bar chart showing the top 20 devices with the most print job errors |
Total Print Jobs, Device FQN |
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User Logins By Day |
Bar chart showing the number of user sign ins and sign outs per day over a specified time |
Date, Logins, Logouts |
Licensing
Spectrum Business Intelligence is available only if your Spectrum license has the Business Intelligence component enabled. To see if your license has this component enabled, go to 
Help > About > License. For more information, see the Loftware Spectrum Business Intelligence Installation Guide or contact Loftware Customer Account Management.
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