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Bachelor of Science

In Computer Science

Dynamic Reporting System (DRS)

A Reporting Module for PeopleSofts CMS of Sukkur IBA

By

Abdul Haleem Solangi

Sadam Hussain Panhwar

Thesis Supervisor

Sir Ghulam Mujtaba Shaikh

Co-Supervisor

Sir Zafar Ali Mahar

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE SUKKUR INSTITUTE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

2013

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Dynamic Reporting System (A Reporting module for PeopleSofts CMS of Sukkur IBA)

By

Abdul Haleem Solangi

Sadam Hussain Panhwar

SUBMITTED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE

DEGREE OF

BACHLOR OF SCIENCE IN COMPUTERR SCIENCE

AT

SUKKUR INSTITUTE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

September 2013

Copyrights2013 [AbdulHaleem and Sadam]. All rights reserved.

The authors hereby grants to Sukkur IBA permission to reproduce

and distribute publically paper and electronic copies of this

Thesis and grant others the right to do so.

Signature of Authors Abdul Haleem & Sadam Hussain Department of Computer Science

Certified by:

Internal Examiner Signature

Ghulam Mujtaba Shaikh & Zafar Ali Mahar Assistant Professor CMS Project Manager & Web manager

External Examiner Signature

Dr. Tariq Mahmood

Associate Professor (PAF - KIET)

Accepted by:

Dr. Abdul Rehman Soomrani Head, Department of Computer Science

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Dedicated to

Our Parents

And

Teachers

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:

All praise is to Allah, the Almighty, the most Merciful and Compassionate,

who granted us persistent determination to undertake and accomplish this

project and thesis. Also thanks to our parents who kept on encouraging us

from the start and prayed for us.

We would like to express our special and profound gratitude to our

supervisors Sir Zafar Ali Mahar (Web Manager & CMS Project Manager) and

Sir Ghulam Mujtaba Shaikh (Assistant Professor Computer Science

Department), for their guidance, support throughout this project and who were

always available for consultations and without them the completion of project

was not possible.

We would also like to thank to our colleagues Atta Muhammad Panhyar and

Salman Memon who supported us whenever we were stuck into any problem.

We would like to extend our thanks to all the faculty of Computer Science

who kept on furnishing our project idea and work through their critics in the

presentations, specially Sir Javed Siddiqui,Sir Javed Shahani, Dr.Zulfiqar

Memon, Dr. Abdul Rehman Soomrani and Dr.Qamar-ud-DinKhand who also

provided lots of initial advice and encouragement.

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Table of contents

Acknowledgment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Abstract . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

List of Figures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Contents at a glance:

Chapter 1: Introduction12

Chapter 2: Technologies used in Dynamic reporting system..17

Chapter 3: Design and Analysis.25

Chapter 4: Dynamic reporting System implementation methodology...30

Chapter 5: Demonstration of DRS with Snapshots .35

Chapter 6: Conclusion and scope of the future work ..46

Chapter 1

Introduction

1.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 1.2 Current methodology to generate reports in Sukkur IBA. . . . . . . . . . . . . .12 1.3 Purpose of Dynamic Reporting System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 1.4 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 1.5 Users of the Dynamic reporting system . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 1.6 Literature review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

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Chapter No.2

Technologies used in Dynamic reporting system

2.1 List of technologies used in dynamic reporting system. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

2.2 Oracle Database 10g . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

2.3 Microsoft visual studio 2010 and its component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

2.3.1 Report viewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

2.3.2 Report Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

2.3.3 Data connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

2.3.4 Report parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

2.4 Microsoft SQL Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

2.4.1 Microsoft SQL Server Management studio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

2.5 SQL Server Data tools (SSDT) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

2.5.1 Installation of SQL Server data tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

2.6 Business Intelligence Development studios. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

2.6.1 Difference between SQL Server data tools and Business Intelligence

development studio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . 22

2.7 Introduction to SQL Server Reporting Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

2.8 Relationship among SQL Server data tools, Business Intelligence development

Studio and SQL Server reporting services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

2.9 SQL Server reporting services configuration manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Chapter No.3

Design and Analysis

3.1 Use case diagram of dynamic reporting system. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

3.1.1 Relationship between actors of use case and their goal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

3.2 Data flow diagram of Dynamic reporting system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

3.3 Architecture of SQL Server reporting Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

3.4 Introduction to report server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Chapter No.4

Dynamic reporting System implementation methodology

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4.1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

4.2 Getting started. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

4.3 Dynamic reporting system implementation steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. ..30

4.4 Extracting required data from CMS database. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

4.5 Moving data from CMS database to a database in SQL Server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

4.6 Designing reports using SQL Server reporting services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

4.6.1 Steps to design a simple report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

4.7 Configuring report server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

4.7.1 Report server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

4.7.2 SQL Server reporting services configuration manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

4.7.3 Steps to configure report server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

4.8 Deploying/Publishing reports at report server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 33

4.9 Accessing reports on web interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 34

4.9.1 Report viewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 34

Chapter No.5

Demonstration of DRS with Snapshots

5.1 C# .Net process interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

5.2 SQL Server management studio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

5.3 Connecting data sources for reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

5.4 Creating a report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

5.5 Data set creation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

5.6 SQL Server reporting services configuration manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

5.7 Deploying reports on report server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

5.7.1 Steps to deploy reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

5.7.2 Report server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

5.8 Accessing reports at web interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

5.9 Interfaces for end users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Chapter No.6

Conclusion and scope of the future work

6.1 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

6.2 Benefits of using DRS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

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6.3 Implemented Reports in DRS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

6.3.1 Report 1 Instructor Course History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

6.3.2 Report 2 Distribution of grades Term wise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

6.3.3 Report 3 Student Course Summary Term wise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

6.3.4 Report 4 Grades_Instructorwise. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

6.3.5 Report 5 Faculty_RankReport_Termwise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

6.3.6 Report 6 Internal External marks ratio instructor wise. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

6.3.7 Report 7 Student cumulative. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

6.4 Scope of the future work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

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ABSTRACT

Dynamic Reporting System

(A Reporting module for PeopleSofts CMS of Sukkur IBA)

With the increase of data in PeopleSofts Campus Management Solution of Sukkur IBA it

is needed to convert that data into meaningful and useful information, so that the institute

can take decisions based on that information extracted, In Sukkur IBA every department

needed to generate reports, and they had to consult with ICT department to generate those

reports, in this project, report generation has been shifted to the user level, i.e. higher

authorities, so that if anyone among them needs to generate reports they can generate at

run time, using interface. This system provides reporting as per requirements of different

level of universitys management as Controller Examination, heads of different faculties,

Director QEC.

The data of CMS is used which includes the data of all stockholders of Sukkur IBA. This

project covers the report generation about Grading and Enrollments of students and

Evaluation of teachers.

Following are the benefits of using DRS

Improve analysis of universities data for various purposes.

Help in the Identification of areas for improvement of the institute.

Improve processes and operations at universities.

Help and assistance of management to take important decisions based on

information extracted, towards improvement of university operations.

This project will help the organization to easily and quickly extract the required

information to make decisions.

This system will let the user to generate reports at run time without waiting for the

response from ICT department.

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List of Figures

2.4 SQL Server management studio (Log in). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 19

2.5 Installation of SQL Server data tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . 20

2.6 Business Intelligence template for Reporting, Analysis and Integration services. . . . 21

3.1 Use case diagram of Dynamic Reporting system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

3.2 Data flow diagram of Dynamic reporting system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

3.3 Architecture diagram of SSRS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

5.1 C# .Net process interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 35

5.2 SQL Server management Studio (Navigation through database tables). . . . . . . . . . . 36

5.3 Connecting data source for report(For database connection) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37

5.4 Designing a new report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

5.5 Data set creation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . 39

5.6 SQL Server reporting services configuration manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

5.7 Deploying reports at report server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

5.7.1 Deploying report project on report server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

5.7.2 Report Server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

5.8 Report Viewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

5.8.1 Generated Report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

5.9 Interface for End users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

6.1 Instructor Course History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

6.2 Grades distribution term wise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

6.3 Student Course Summary Term wise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

6.2 Grades_Instructorwise. . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

6.2 Faculty_RankReport_Termwise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

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Chapter No.1

Introduction

This chapter is about the introduction and purpose of developing Dynamic reporting

system. In this chapter we will discuss about the current report generating process at

Sukkur IBA, a brief introduction of the new solution for report generation, purpose and

overview of developing Dynamic reporting system. In the end of this chapter some brief

introduction of Reporting and types of reporting along with some more frequently used

terminologies are discussed.

1.1 Introduction:

The continuing explosion of data of PeopleSofts Campus Management solution (CMS) has

made the higher authorities of Sukkur IBA to utilize that data to take important decisions

about the students and the faculty of Sukkur IBA. Basically in order to develop dynamic

reporting tool for CMS of Sukkur IBA following primary goals must be achieved:

User friendliness

Improved access to the data of CMS by higher authorities.

Fast response time.

Report generation at run time.

Utilize the information retrieved by reports to achieve the vision

1.2 Current methodology to generate reports in Sukkur IBA:

Currently if any department like Examination, Admissions, Career development Centre,

Quality enhancement cell, Registrar office or the Director of Sukkur IBA requires reports

they consult with the ICT department for that and for that ICT department has to apply

complex and long SQL queries to generate a particular report or they analyze the data and

make the report.

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1.3 Purpose of developing Dynamic reporting system (DRS):

With the increase of data in PeopleSofts CMS of Sukkur IBA it is needed to convert that

data into meaningful and useful information, so that the institute can take decisions based

on that information extracted. In Sukkur IBA every department needed to generate reports,

and they had to consult with ICT department to generate required reports. For that many off

the shelf software modules were available in the market, but these were too much

expensive to purchase and with extra features which were even not required, so it was

decided to develop the customized Reporting system with specific features. In this project

we have shifted the report generation to the user level, i.e. higher authorities, so that if

anyone among them needs to generate reports they can dynamically generate, using user

friendly interface. Provide reporting as per requirement of different level of universitys

management as Director, Registrar, Controller Examination, Treasurer, Director QEC,

HODs.

1.4 Overview:

The dynamic reporting system is used to help higher authorities, especially Examination

department and QEC department of Sukkur IBA to generate reports their selves at run time,

an interface is provided to them they can generate the reports by just selecting the required

parameters which they want to see in the reports. This project will cover only the reporting

about the Grading and Enrolments of the students and Teachers evaluation. The source of

data for this reporting tool is from database of PeopleSofts CMS which contains the data

of all the three categories mentioned earlier, Different trends (Analyzing the data from

different angles) in the data are identified which are converted into queries and are stored at

the backend of the interface, users specified parameters or type of report that user want to

generate are matched with any one of the trend and then information is fetched from the

database in the form of reports.

1.5 Users of the Dynamic reporting system:

Head of departments:

Dynamic Reporting system will provide interactive reporting about the performance of

teachers and students to Head of departments, the suggested reports types by HODs, reports

will be designed, those reports will cover the performance of students and teachers in

details. HODs will be allowed to view reports related to their own departments.

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Director QEC:

Dynamic reporting system is one of the performance indicators which QEC department is

using. Suggested reports by QEC department will designed and implemented. This will

allow QEC department to view the report of all teachers in detail like evaluation reports,

and teachers class performance in class, difference between the percentage of internal and

external marks of students. QEC department will be allowed to view the reports related to

all departments.

1.6 Literature review

Reporting

Reporting is used to analyze the data and then extract some useful information which has a

meaning and can be helpful in identifying some facts. Reports are often used to display the

result of some experiment and investigation that is done on some data with some method.

Reports are often used to represent some patterns from the huge data. Reports can be

published, scheduled or accessed on-demand.

These are some ways through which result of reports can be viewed.

Reports can be from specific to more complex and can include small amount of data and

can have large amount of data depends upon the type and nature of report we want to

generate.

Examples of reports:

Educational reports

Investigation reports

Budget reports

Scientific reports

Demographic reports

Reporting Types:

Some of the types of reports are given below [1]

:

Parameterized reports:

A parameterized report uses input values to complete report or data processing. You

can vary the output of a report based on values that are set when the report runs.

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Parameterized reports are frequently used for drill through reports, linked reports, and

sub reports, connecting and filtering reports with related data.

Linked reports:

A linked report is derived from an existing report and retains the original's report

definition. A linked report always inherits report layout and data source properties of

the original report

Sub reports:

A sub report is a report that displays another report inside the body of a main report.

Conceptually, a sub report is similar to a frame in a Web page. It is used to embed a

report within a report. Any report can be used as a sub report. The sub report can use

different data sources than the main report.

The result of reports can be represented in different forms like:

- Text based

- Charts

- Graphs

- Numbers

Difference between Dynamic Reports and Static Reports:

A Dynamic report that reads the most current data at the time of report creation. Every time

a dynamic report is run, the data warehouse gathers the most recent data. Only the report

definition which remains the same overtime is stored. The system updates the data in a

dynamic report when the report is displayed in a Web browser. You use dynamic reports to

show information to your users that change over time.

Static reports are run immediately upon request and then stored with the data in the

completed reports module. Static reports are used to present information to your users that

are not likely to change over time. The system retrieves the data for the static report at the

time of its creation and does not refresh it again.

ERP

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is business management software that allows an

organization to use a system of integrated applications to manage the business. ERP

software integrates all facets of a department, including product planning, development,

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manufacturing processes, sales and marketing. ERP facilitates information flow between all

departments inside the organization and manages connections to outside stack holders.

SAP

SAP stands for System Application Products, Its a company that provides ERP software,

thousands of mid to large size companies, worldwide use SAP software to run the majority

of their day-to-day business transactions and processes, called an enterprise system, or ERP

(Enterprise Resource Planning) solution, it can literally run an entire enterprise. SAP is

generally well known for its enterprise resource planning and data management system

programs.

PeopleSoft

PeopleSoft Inc. was a company that provided ERP software solution to different companies

or organizations, later on PeopleSoft was acquired by Oracle Corporation. Oracles

PeopleSoft provided the Human resource management system, financial management

system and Campus management solution (CMS) as well.

CMS

CMS stands for Campus Management System. Campus Management System is software

module to manage educational institutions. And intra department communication is made

through this, all academic related tasks like grading, enrollments and evaluation of

employees is performed through this system.

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Chapter No.2

Technologies used in Dynamic Reporting System

This chapter discusses about the technologies used in development of Dynamic reporting

system. Including RDBS, its components like SQL Server reporting services (SSRS) to

generate reports and .Net platform. Below is the list of technologies.

2.1 List of technologies used in the Dynamic Reporting system:

Oracle Database 10g

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

Microsoft SQL Server database 2012

SQL Server Data tools(SSDT)

Business Intelligence Development Studio(BIDS)

SQL Server Reporting Services(SSRS)

SQL Server Reporting services configuration manager

2.2 Oracle Database 10g:

Oracle Database commonly referred as Oracle RDBMs is Object-Relational database

management system. It is the first database designed for enterprise grid computing, the

most flexible and cost effective way to manage information and application.

2.3 Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 and its components:

Visual studio is developed by Microsoft to support developers to develop application. It is

an integrated development environment also called IDE. Developers can develop many

applications like website, web applications and web services, console and graphical user

interface application and also windows form applications.

Microsoft visual Studio also supports CSS, HTML, and JavaScript. Microsoft provides

express additions of visual studio like visual studio 2005, visual studio 2008, visual studio

2010, and visual studio 2012. Microsoft VS 2012 is the latest version by Microsoft.

Visual studio has a beauty that it supports many languages and one can easily develop any

application using any of the language supported by Microsoft visual studio. Following are

some Languages that visual studio supports: [d]

Visual Basic

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Visual C#

Visual C++

Visual F#

2.3.1 Report Viewer:

Report viewer is a major control for Reporting in tool box of Microsoft visual studio and it

is used by dragging it to the main page as shown in figure No.5.10 of chapter No.5. We can

design as many reports as we want but if end users cannot view the reports then it will be

useless. Report viewer provides this facility to view the reports in different formats. We

can select predefined reports by selecting them or we can design our new report by

choosing the option of design new report. Report viewer will make a request to the report

server to retrieve all data from report and view that in report viewer

2.3.2 Report Designer:

The Visual Studio Report Designer provides a user-friendly interface for creating reports

that include data from multiple types of data sources. Report Designer in Business

Intelligence Development Studio is a report authoring environment that is hosted in

Microsoft Visual Studio. With report designer we can manually add a table, matrix, or list

to a report from the toolbox.

2.3.3 Data connection:

It is also known as a data source. A data connection includes a name and connection

properties that are dependent on the connection type. By design, a data connection does not

include credentials. A data connection does not specify which data to retrieve from the

external data source. To do that, you specify a query when you create a dataset.

2.3.4 Report Parameters:

We can also create dynamic reports in which we allow user to select particular parameter

from the interface and then on the basis of that selection the particular report will be shown

to user. We can use Report Parameters in report designing and at the time of applying

query we can specify Parameters that can be used to filter out the records according to

need. Report parameters enable you to control report data, connect related reports together,

and vary report presentation. To design a report that uses parameters effectively, you must

understand how parameters and dataset queries are related, how to include parameters in

expressions, and how to manage parameters independently from a report definition on the

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report server or SharePoint site. After you publish a report, you can manage parameters

independently from the report definition. By creating linked reports, you can even create

multiple sets of parameters for the same report. There is a Parameter pane available in SQL

server data set which contains all parameters included in the report.

2.4 Microsoft SQL Server

Microsoft SQL Server is the Relational Database Management System (RDBMS).

2.4.1 Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio:

It is used to administrating, managing and configuring all SQL server components. We can

manage all the database tables which we use in the project from SQL server Management

studio, also we can set the permissions on the databases. Below figure shows the user

connecting with the database engine.

Figure No. 2.4- SQL Server management studio (Log in)

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2.5 SQL Server data tool (SSDT):

SQL server data tool is supported in visual studio environment and this helps developers to

carry out their work of database for the SQL server platform. It helps to design and develop

business intelligence projects with SQL server more easily. It is used to create and modify

Analysis Services, Reporting Services and Integration Services.

Microsoft SQL Server Data tools is the final name for the product formerly known as SQL

Server Developer tools, SSDT provides a modern database development experience for the

SQL Server. SSDT is compatible with SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server

2008 R2, SQL Server 2012 and SQL Azure.

SQL Server Data tools is for SQL Server Database developers, who often develop database

schemas, stored procedures, and other database objects while developing their application

logic[2]

.

2.5.1 Installation of the SQL Server 2012 Data Tools:

When SQL Server is installed, SQL Server Data tools feature is also installed. As shown in

the figure below.

Figure No.2.5- Installation of SQL Server data tools

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After installation, SSDT can be launched from the SQL Server program group in the start

menu, after we create the project, the following option appears [3]

,

Figure No. 2.6- Business Intelligence template for Reporting, Analysis and Integration

services

2.6 Business Intelligence Development Studio

Business Intelligence Development Studio is Microsoft Visual Studio with additional

project types that are specific to SQL Server business intelligence. Business Intelligence

Development Studio is the primary environment that you will use to develop business

solutions that include Analysis Services, Integration Services, and Reporting Services

projects. Each project type supplies templates for creating the objects required for business

intelligence solutions, and provides a variety of designers, tools, and wizards to work with

the objects [5]

.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and 2012 provides Business intelligence (BI) component for

Reporting Services. It is used to develop business solutions. In our project we also use

Business Intelligence component of Microsoft Visual studio.

Microsoft visual studio helps us in our project to design any report based on our

requirement and then connect that report with the interface.

We will use following controls/components from visual studio.

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Report viewer: it helps to view the report.

Script Manager: Manage the script. With Business intelligence reporting component we can design a report and then we can

call the report in report viewer.

2.6.1 Difference between SQL Server Data tools and Business

Intelligence development Studio:

So far as my understanding, in the SQL Server 2012 installer, developers can install the

BIDS tools for Visual Studio 2010 by selecting SSDT during installation. The BIDS tools

will run on Visual Studio 2010 SP1, as SSDT does. The SQL Server 2012 installer will

also install SSDTs prerequisites and a stub project that allows SQL Server 2012 users to

acquire the latest SSDT version from the web. In the web acquisition experience, however,

the SSDT shell only includes the database projects component. Installing SSDT from the

web will not install BIDS tools [4]

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2.7 Introduction to SQL Server Reporting Service (SSRS)

SQL server reporting server is introduced by Microsoft with Microsoft SQL server. It helps

to introduce reporting services to generate large and important reports from the database.

SSRS helps to develop the customized reports with ease as compared to other reporting

services, which can be useful for any organization to take some important decisions and

take benefits. It also provides programming feature in reports to enable us to customize our

report according to the need. With SSRS thousands of reports can be designed and those

reports are stored on the centralized server, the reason why reports are stored on centralized

server is that because users can run reports from one centralized server. Reporting server

has a set of tools to create and manage the customized reports for the application. Reports

are created like interactive, tabular, graphical, or free-form reports from any data in

reporting service.SSRS also include rich data visualization, including charts, and maps.

Report manager acts as a manager to maintain the reports and how they are deployed at the

centralized server. Once we done with developing the reports, now there is report viewer

control available at Visual studio to view the reports from the report server [6]

.

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2.8 Relationship among SQL Services data tools (SSDT), Business

Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS) and SQL Server reporting

services (SSRS):

Installing Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools component of SQL Server, installs the

Business Intelligence project templates which includes Analysis Services, Integration

Services, and Reporting Services that support Visual Studio 2012, as shown in figure No.

2.3, In this project Reporting Services is used.

2.9 SQL Server reporting services configuration manager:

Reporting Services Configuration Manager is used to configure a Reporting Services

Native Mode installation. If a report server is installed by using the files-only installation

option, this tool must be used to configure the server before it can be used. If a report

server is installed by using the default configuration installation option, this tool can be

used to verify or modify the settings that were specified during setup. Reporting Services

Configuration Manager can be used to configure a local or remote report server instance[7].

Reporting Services Configuration Manager can be used to perform the following tasks:

Configure the Report Server service account. The account is initially configured during setup, but can be modified by using the Reporting Services Configuration

Manager if the password is updated a different account is to be used.

Create and configure URLs. The report server and Report Manager are ASP.NET applications accessed through URLs. The report server URL provides access to the

SOAP endpoints of the report server. The Report Manager URL is used to open

Report Manager. A single URL or multiple URLs can be configured for each

application.

Create and configure the report server database. The report server is a stateless server that requires a SQL Server database for internal storage. The Reporting

Services Configuration Manager can be used to create and configure a connection

to the report server database. An existing report server database can also be selected

that already contains the content you want to use.

Configure a Native mode scale-out deployment. Reporting Services supports a deployment topology that allows multiple report server instances use a single,

shared report server database. To deploy a report server scale-out deployment,

Reporting Services Configuration Manager is used to connect each report server to

the shared report server database.

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Backup, restore, or replace the symmetric key that is used to encrypt stored connection strings and credentials. You must have a backup of the symmetric key if

you change the service account, or move a report server database to another

computer.

The Reporting Services Configuration Manager does not help to manage report server content, enable additional features, or grant access to the server. Full

deployment requires that SQL Server Management Studio should be used to enable

additional features or modify default values, and Report Manager to grant user

access to the server.

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Chapter No.3

Design and Analysis

In this chapter Design and Analysis of Dynamic reporting system is discussed, including

Use case diagram, data flow diagram which shows the complete flow of the data from the

source to user interface and in the end architecture diagram is discussed.

3.1 Use case diagram of Dynamic reporting system

Figure No. 3.1- Use case diagram of Dynamic Reporting system

Figure No.3.1 shows the use case diagram of DRS, in which there are three actors that are

User, Administrator and System, having different goals or tasks to perform. Actor and their

goals are described in next section.

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3.1.1 Relationship between actors of use case diagram and their Goals

User(Actor), uses dynamic Reporting System at first he logs into(Use case) the

system, then the user selects the report type(Use case)which he wants to generate,

for that he first enters Parameters(Use case), after that he views the reports(Use

case).

Admin User (Actor), Logs into the system and then Executes process

System maintains the log of process execution.

System (Actor) authenticates user/Admin user log in by verifying his username and

password from database.

System (Actor) also fetches data of report from database on the request of user.

System (Actor) reads data from CMS database (Production Server) and transfers it

to the SQL Server database at other Server.

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3.2 Data flow diagram of Dynamic Reporting System

Figure No. 3.2- Data flow diagram of Dynamic reporting system

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Figure No. 3.2, In PeopleSofts CMS database, which is at Production server there are

different modules like campus community, grades book, academics, by using Procedural

language SQL (PL/SQL) required data is extracted from these modules and stored in

separate RPT tables like RPT_COMULTV_INFO and PS_SIBA_STGRDS_RPT, data

from these RPT tables, is moved from CMS database at Production server to SQL Server

database at other Development server by using a C#.Net process. Using SQL Server

compatible Reporting services, reports has been designed and embedded with the Report

Server from where these are accessed on the interface using Report viewer of Microsoft

visual studio.

3.3 Architecture of Dynamic Reporting System:

Figure No. 3.3- Architecture diagram of DRS [8]

.

Figure 3.3, shows the architecture and communication diagram of different components of

Dynamic reporting system, communication of these components is discussed below.

1. A C# .Net process has been written which moves the CMS data from Oracle database at

one server to SQL Server 2012 at other server.

2. After installing SQL Servers Reporting Services and Report Server reports are two

default databases are created named ReportServer and ReportServerTempDB using SSRS

reports are created.

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3. These created reports are then stored in the databases named ReportServer and

ReportServerTempDB.

These reports are then displayed to the user in html, pdf or excel format.

3.4 Introduction to Report Server: Reports are designed after that a Report

server is installed and configured where reports can be stored or published and can be

viewed from there, Report can be deployed at the server by providing the report server

URL and then report is deployed to view on the report server. Every report that is made

separately is deployed at the server.

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Chapter 4

Dynamic reporting system Implementation

Methodology:

This chapter tells about the implementation. All the methods and components used in

implementation are discussed in this chapter.

The overall purpose of Dynamic reporting system is to generate customized reports, this

chapter gives details about how data is moved from one server to other and how reports are

designed and deployed at Report Server and how these reports are accessed at user

interface.

4.1 Getting started:

This chapter covers the implementation steps and methodology of the system, Dynamic

reporting system is using the data of CMS in which the focus is on grading, enrollments

and evaluation of teachers and students data, this data is gathered at one place using stored

procedures and is transferred to the Development server from where using SQL Server

reporting services is reports are designed after that Report Server is configured using SQL

Server configuration manager where designed reports are deployed and thus these reports

are accessed from Web Interface using report viewer of Microsoft visual studio.

4.2 Dynamic reporting System implementation steps:

Extracting required data from CMS database.

Moving data from CMS database to database at SQL Server.

Designing reports using SSRS.

Configuring reporting server.

Deploy reports at reporting server.

Access reports at Web interface.

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4.3 Extracting required data from CMS database:

Stored procedures are created that get data from CMS database, tables like

SQL_CLASS_VIEW_ORG, PS_SIBA_STGRDS_RPT, and PS_GRADE_ROSTER have

data regarding grading, enrollments and academics, that data is inserted in a separate

Report table named RPT_COMULTV_INFO.

Below is the list of developed stored procedures, refer to Appendix: C to Appendix: F for

complete code

PROC_AUTO_TERM_EXECUTE

PROC_MSTR_CUMGRADES

PROC_RPT_GRADES

PROC_CAL_GRADESCOUNT

PROC_AUTO_TERM_EXECUTE, this stored procedure calls all the other stored

procedures automatically and processes all academic terms at a single execution, at first it

calls PROC_MSTR_CUMGRADES stored procedure, PROC_MSTR_CUMGRADES

gathers the information regarding term code, class number, academic program, course ID,

class section, course title, total enrollment, of class and academic career of the class. Later

on PROC_MSTR_CUMGRADES calls proc_rpt_grades procedure, it collects data

regarding faculty name his/her CMS ID and subject name which he/she is teaching.

PROC_MSTR_CUMGRADES also calls procedure named proc_cal_GradesCount which

counts the number of students in grade A, grade B, C, D students who have failed and

students who have withdrawn the subject.

After extracting that data it is inserted in report tables such as RPT_COMULTV_INFO.

4.4 Moving data from CMS database to a database in SQL

Server:

A C# .Net process has been developed which moves data from report tables such as

RPT_COMULTV_INFO table of CMS database at production server to Northwind

database of SQL Server at Development Server. Northwind database contains the

information regarding grades, enrollments, academics, that information is read from the

CMS database of Oracle and is inserted into Northwind database of SQL Server using C#

process, Northwind database also contains the information regarding process execution i.e.

it maintains the process execution log. It also contains the information regarding users who

use the Dynamic reporting system, user authentication is made from the user table of

Northwind database, To view the snapshot, refer to the chapter No. 5 Figure No. 5.1 and

for complete code of C# process refer to Appendix: A

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4.5 Designing reports using SQL Server reporting Server

(SSRS):

Using SQL Server reporting services reports are designed and customized in different

format, in general with the help of SSRS following report types can be created,

Parameterized reports

Linked reports

Sub reports

4.5.1 Steps to design a Simple Report:

Open new project in Microsoft Visual studio or SQL server Data tools:

Click on Business intelligence and click on Report server Project.

After providing credentials for data source the project is created and adds new dataset.

It is optional to make that dataset as a shared dataset for other reports.

Now add new report by right clicking on Reports folder.

Select dataset and then click on query builder.

Now we can select database and apply query that will be used in report.

Click ok to finish the process.

Now a report is ready and with this process many reports can be made that can be deployed

on report server. Figure No.5.3, Figure 5.4 and Figure 5.5 shows the steps to create a new

report using SSRS.

4.6 Configuring Report server:

4.6.1 Report Server:

Many reports can be designed for these reports report server is required where these

designed reports can be combined, placed and viewed from where at web interface, every

report is made separately and deployed at the server.

All reports are deployed on the report server that can be used after in project. If any report

is not deployed here then report viewer will not accept the URL and path for that report to

view on the interface, because it was not included at server.

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4.6.2 SQL Server Reporting Services Configuration manger:

SQL Server reporting services configuration manager is a tools which is used to configure

the report server in which reports can be deployed, hundreds of reports can be designed and

be viewed in the report viewer, if the reports are deployed together, then that is better

facility to view the reports at the same place and that is report server, SQL Server

configuration manger helps to manage the reports at the report server and it can also gather,

organize and present information about the user.

4.6.3 Steps to configure report server:

Click start and then All programs

Point to Microsoft SQL server and point to Configuration Tools.

Now click on Reporting Services Configuration Manager

A dialogue will appear to select the report server instance.

Now in n Server Name, specify the name of the computer on which the report server instance is installed, by default there will be the local computer name but it

can be changed if report server is installed on other computer.

In Report Server Instance select the SQL server instance that we want to configure.

Click on connect

4.7 Deploying/publishing reports at Report server

Reports are deployed at reporting server to be viewed on web interface. following are the

steps to deploy any report at reporting server.

Right click on Project solution in visual studio and click on the properties

The Server where reports are to be deployed (report server), its complete path will be provided at report path and report server URL option.

Now at last to deploy the reports at server, right click on the Project and then to click on Deploy option.

This is the process through multiple reports can be deployed on the report

server. The Report server URL and path must be correct in order to deploy

the reports at the right place.

All of the reports can be viewed by providing the Server URL and path:

Report server URL can be written as:

http://Servername/ReportserverName

Report server Path can be written as:

/ReportFolderName/ReportName

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4.8 Accessing reports on Web interface:

Reports can be called on web interface by using either of the two components of the

Microsoft visual studio

Report Viewer: helps to view the report

Script Manager: Manage the script

4.8.1 Report Viewer:

Microsoft Visual studio has a report viewer which provides facility to add full featured

report with the customized application. Predefined reports can be selected or design new

report by choosing the option of design new report. Report viewer will make a request to

the report server to retrieve all data from report and view that in report viewer.

Report viewer can display local as well as server reports. It takes two values or

parameters to view the reports.

Report server URL

Report Path

To access the Server report from Report viewer the report server URL and report

path must be provided.

The report viewer will process the request on the basis of report server URL and

report path given and according to that it will show the particular report.

Script manager helps report viewer to display the server reports directly by only

providing the Report Server URL and Report Path.

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Chapter 5

Demonstration of DRS with Snapshots

This chapter contains the snapshots and descriptionof the tools used in the implementaiton

process of Dynamic reporting sytem, snapshots and details of the reports generated.

5.1 C# .Net process interface:

Figure No. 5.1- C# .Net process Interface

Figure 5.1 shows the interface for C# .Net process which moves the data term wise from

CMS database to SQL Servers Northwind database. Moving data from one database to

other database at different server has multiple advantages, As CMS Oracle database server

is the live server to which data is stored directly, that is why the data is shifted to the

development server. So that actual data can be kept safe in condition of any change in the

data. Other advantage of moving data from Oracle database to SQL Server database is that

the Reporting services of SQL Server are more easy to use.

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5.2 SQL server Management studio:

Figure No. 5.2- SQL Server management Studio (Navigation through database tables)

Figure 5.2 shows the SQL server Management studio. It is used to administer, manage and

configure all SQL server components. All database tables can be managed which are used

in the project from SQL server Management studio and also permissions can be set on the

database using this tool. The data which is shifted from the live server that is CMS database

server to the development server is stored in SQL Servers Northwind database, in RPT_CL_COMULTV_INFO table and RPT_SIBA_STGRDS_RPT table of Northwind

database, this database also stores the data regarding new users who are using dynamic

reporting system and the log table about the process execution which is used to move the

data from one server to the other.

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5.3 Connecting data source for report

Figure No. 5.3-Connecting data source for report(For database connection)

In figure 5.3 data source is created and authentication is provided to make connection with

the database. When a new reporting services project is created by clicking on the reporting

services option of business intelligence template, then it asks for the data source

connection, as shown in the figure after providing the required credentials the connection is

build and set up is ready for the report to be created and designed.

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5.4 Creating a report:

Figure 5.4- Designing a new report

After creating a new project of reporting services, and connecting a data source, a report

can be created by right clicking on the report folder in the solution explorer and selecting

Add then new item and then clicking on Report, this will create a report file with .rdl

extension, multiple reports can be created and designed in one project. As one of the report

is created in this system with the name InternalExternal_Ratio_Instructorwise which

reports about the percentage of marks obtained internally and percentage of marks obtained

externally of each student instructor wise. As is shown in the figure No. 5.11 of chapter 5.

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5.5 Data set creation:

Figure No. 5.5 Data set creation

Figure 5.5 shows the creation of dataset, Data set is created to define the data which is to be

displayed in the report, and Data set is created by right clicking on the dataset folder in the

report data pane. In the query section, a query is written for the data which is to be

retrieved for the report as shown in the above figure.

5.6 SQL Server reporting services configuration manager:

Figure No. 5.6-SQL Server reporting services configuration manager

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Hundreds of Reports can be designed and can be viewed in the report viewer, but of reports

are deployed at the same place, it will be a greater facility to view the reports at the same

place and that is at the report server. After the installation of report server, SQL Server

reporting services configuration manager helps to manage the reports at the reporting

server. It can gather, organize and present information about the user as well.

5.7 Deploying report at report server:

Figure No. 5.7- Deploying reports at report server

After designing the report and set the data set for the report now report is deployed on

report server. This can be done by providing the report server URL and report server path.

5.7.1 Steps to deploy reports:

Following are the Steps to deploy report on report server:

Right click on Project folder in the solution explorer.

then Click Properties to set the report properties and deploy the report

Property Window will appear

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Figure 5.1.1 Deploying report project at report server

Now click on Configuration properties and then click on general to set some properties of the report and report server.

Click on TargetReportfolder and type the folder name of the report project where

reports are deployed. Current report project folder name is displayed there

Now click on TargetSerevrURL and type with URL of the report server where we want to deploy the report.

The Report server URL looks like the one given below:

http://localhost/ReportServer

Localhost is the name of the server machine where report server is configured. ReportServer is the name of the server where reports are deployed.

Now Click ok, it will deployed on the server after right clicking on the project folder and then clicking on deploy option as shown in the figure 5.8.

After this step the reports will be deployed on the report server and they can be viewed by

the URL of the report server.

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5.7.2 Report Server

Figure No. 5.7.2 Report Server

Figure No.5.7.2 All reports are deployed on the report server that can be used after in

project. If any report is not deployed here then report viewer will not accept the URL and

path for that report because it was not included at server. The above figure gives the view

of report server and displayed the list of deployed reports at the report server.

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5.8 Accessing reports at web interface:

Figure No. 5.8-Report Viewer

Figure No.5.8 show the report viewer interface which is placed by dragging it from the tool box of

visual studio, The deployed reports on the report server are accessed on the web interface by using

report viewer and providing the report URL in the report viewer as one of the report is shown in

below figure.

Figure No. 5.8.1-Generated Report

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5.9 Interface for end users:

Figure No. 5.9- Interface for End users

Figure No. 5.12 shows the interface for the end users, who will navigate through different

types of reports which they want to generate, above interface is designed by dividing

reports in different types of categories, after selecting particular type from the menu and

providing parameters the report will be displayed to the right side of the report menu.

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Chapter No.6

Conclusion and Scope of the future work:

This chapter gives the overall conclusion and benefits of using Dynamic Reporting system

and what more can be added in this system to make it more useful in future, in the end of

the chapter sample implemented or generated reports are discussed with snapshots.

6.1 Conclusion:

The Dynamic Reporting System provides user friendly interface so that users can easily

create reports, by simply providing certain parameters. These reports will help organization

to have a clear picture of the performance of the stakeholders of the institute from different

perspectives. Scope of DRS is to design reports related to Faculty grading, Grades and

ranks, Student grading, Internal and External ratio of marks. These categories are further

divided into more specific type of reports.

6.2 Benefits of using Dynamic reporting system:

Dynamic reporting system (CMS Warehouse) will facilitate Sukkur IBA by:

Help and assistance of management to take important decisions based on information extracted, towards improvement of university operations.

Provide reporting as per requirement of different level of universitys management as Head of departments, QEC department and Examination department.

Improve processes and operations at universities.

Improve analysis of universities data for various purposes.

Help in the Identification of areas for improvement.

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Some of the designed and implemented reports are described in the next section

6.3 Implemented Reports in DRS:

6.3.1 Report 1: Instructor Course History

This report is in format of Drill down, in which when the user views the report he first has

the broader view of the data, after clicking on any particular field he has more specific data.

Parameter:

Instructor ID

When the user enters Instructor ID, complete list of courses is displayed which that

particular instructor have taught in his career in Sukkur IBA, after clicking on plus sign(+)

of any course more details about that course are displayed, including the details of all

enrolled students. As shown in the Figure No.6.1

Figure 6.1-Instructor Course History

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6.3.2 Report 2: Distribution of grades Term wise

In this report when the user views the report, the chart is displayed in which the distribution

of all grades is displayed term wise, like how many F grades have been taken in Spring

2011 and what was the enrollment in that semester, these type of questions are addressed in

this type of report. As shown in the Figure No. 6.2

Figure 6.2 Grades distribution term wise

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6.3.3 Report 3: Student Course Summary Term wise

In this report when the user views the report after entering parameters like Student CMS ID

and Term code, the system displays the complete list of courses in which the particular

student was enrolled, along with that other details are also shown as shown in the below

figure.

Figure 6.3 Student Course Summary Term wise

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6.3.4 Report 4: Grades_Instructorwise: This report shows the Term wise Performance of all instructors teaching in that term.

Parameters:

Term code

This report is very useful as it shows the term wise performance of all instructors including

total enrolment, grading of students that how many have got A grades and how many

students have withdrawn and how many have got F, as shown in the figure No. 6.1.

This static is very important because it will help the higher authorities to analyze the

performance of the instructor who have many students with F grades or having withdrawn

that.

Figure No. 6.4 Report- Grades_Instructorwise

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6.3.5 Report 5: Faculty_RankReport_Termwise:

This report shows the performance of the Instructor with respect to the term. In each term

how many subjects are taught by the instructor and performance in all Subjects,

performance is based on the value of remarks field and remarks field is calculated which is described below.

This report is also able to give remarks about the teachers in certain reports, remarks are

specified in such a way that if in a class number of students getting A or B grade is greater

than the number of students getting C, D, W and F grade then that teachers performance is

Very satisfactory, if the number of students getting A, B or C grade is greater than D, F

or W then that teachers performance is Average and if in a class the number of students

getting F, W or D grade is greater than the number of students getting A, B or C grade then

that teachers performance is Not satisfactory, as shown in the figure below.

This report takes term code and Instructor CMS ID as input and retrieves the results based

on the input parameters.

Figure 6.5 Report- Faculty_RankReport_TermWise

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6.3.6 Report 6: Internal External marks ratio instructor wise:

This report shows the ratio of the internal with the external marks taken by students with

respect to the instructor.

Parameters:

Instructor CMS ID

Term Code

Subject

Selecting the CMS Id of the instructor and then term code and then the subject taught by

that instructor in that term will display the overall ratio of Internal and external marks

obtained by the students in that term with respect to the instructor.

With this report we can make the difference of the ratios and can evaluate that how

students perform internally and externally.

6.3.7 Report 7: Student cumulative:

This report will show the overall performance of the student in all terms.

Parameters:

Student CMS ID

This report that helps to analyze student performance in all of the subjects of his degree

program cumulatively. This cumulative report displays the performance of student with all

terms and all their subjects and marks obtained internally and externally, the percentage of

internal and external marks.

Report like this will be very important to briefly analyze the student performance by internal

and external. Also with this report students performance can be analyzed cumulatively.

6.4 Scope of the future work:

In future this system will be populated with many other trends (Types of reports generated),

Users will be able to generate many other customized reports with interactive graphs and

charts that will fulfill their needs of reports and will help more to Sukkur IBA to identify

improvement areas. In future this system has also room to be intelligent enough to tell the

future trends itself based on the past trends in the performance of students and teachers.

Apart from that this system will also be capable of suggesting that what decision should be

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taken based on the information extracted in the reports. Also the scope of the project will

be increased from grading and evaluation and the system will be able to generate reports

regarding the performance stockholders of different departments of Sukkur IBA.

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http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa256327%28v=sql.80%29.aspx SSRS

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http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms156305.aspx

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http://bimentalist.com/2011/07/31/msbi-9-bi-3-architectural-overview-of-ssisssrs-and-

ssas/

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