Chapter 13: Reporting and Monitoring with Appian
With Appian, we try to implement the process itself in software. But this is only half the story. We also need to consider process management in our application. After all, there's a reason it's called business process management.
Management is about making decisions. You will learn how to enable managers to make these decisions using reports that give insight into process performance and display Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Interactive and actionable reports enable managers on an operative or strategic level to improve Tarence Limited's process performance.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Data sources and preparation: Designing data for reporting requirements
- Aggregating data: Preparing data in the database and query-time aggregation
- Visualizing data: Turning raw data into appealing visual representations
- Adding interaction: Using interactive charts to filter and drill...
