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PTC Windchill Reporting
®
Report on and analyze product and process information in real time
PTC Windchill offers reporting capabilities that
provide real-time access to the information
you need to analyze and optimize your product development processes. Preconfigured for
PTC Windchill, and utilizing familiar query capabilities, ReportBuilder makes the development
and distribution of basic reports faster and easier. Charting tools allows you generate charts
against any report. And PTC Windchill also takes
advantage of the Cognos Business Intelligence
(BI) reporting framework for broader enterprise
reporting needs.
Utilize predefined reports that come with Cognos.
PTC Windchill Reporting lets you rapidly develop and
distribute product and process information across the
enterprise. Decision-makers can easily visualize trends,
patterns and relationships with graphical and drill-down
reports of key performance indicators (KPIs).
Key Benefits
Improve Decision-Making and Process Efficiency
The visual and graphical representation of real-time
information helps you quickly identify product or processrelated problems as well as optimize your product
development processes. Drill-down reports not only help you
immediately focus in on the source of a problem, but also
help you solve it.
Easily generate multiple charts against a single report that was developed
with ReportBuilder.
Realize Superior ROI
Improve Report Development Productivity
Since ReportBuilder is available out-of-the-box, anyone can
quickly get the information they need about products and
related activities. In addition, the pre-defined integration
between Cognos and PTC Windchill along with prebuilt
reports means you can also have this solution up and running
quickly, achieving immediate results.
Since any complex connections between PTC Windchill data
elements are automatically defined behind-the-scenes, the
time and cost to develop reports is drastically reduced.
Reports can also be automatically generated as well as
securely emailed to predefined distribution lists.
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Capabilities
(Included with PTC Windchill PDMLInk, PTC Windchill ProjectLink and PTC Arbortext Content Manager unless otherwise noted)
Basic Reporting
ReportBuilder
Charting
Enterprise Reporting
Data Monitor
Prebuilt reports
PTC Windchill
PTC Windchill
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Business Reporting
Business Report
Business Report
Author
Monitor
(Optional Module)
(Optional Module)
X
Except for
PTC Arbortext
Content Manager
Modify prebuilt
X
reports
Publish reports in
multiple formats
X
X
Schedule and
distribute reports
X
X
automatically
Monitor report
parameters
X
X
Email only
X
Define and execute
actions when a
report parameter
limit is reached
Create Charts
X
X
Embedded
Cognos 8 Business
X
Intelligence Software
Drag-and-drop
report authoring
Create Dashboards
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X
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Features
Basic Reporting
Enterprise Reporting
ReportBuilder
Embedded Cognos 8 Business Intelligence Software
• Define a broad range of queries against PTC Windchill
data using a graphical interface
• Integrated user interface allows you to access, view and
generate Cognos reports directly from within Windchill
• Builds upon familiar QueryBuilder tool
• Scalable to hundreds of thousands of users
• Generate reports in multiple formats including HTML,
XML, and CSV
• Publish reports in all desired formats: email, HTML, PDF,
Microsoft Excel, CSV and XML
• Configure output formats and re-use existing
output formats
• Schedule and distribute reports automatically on set time
frames, such as weekly, monthly or quarterly
Charting
Drag-and-drop Report Authoring (Optional)
• Generate charts against any report
• Point-and-click actions let non-IT users create reports
• Charts can be collapsed and expanded, modified,
or printed
• Adaptive authoring automatically resizes titles, charts and
other report elements to fit the output format and medium
• Create multiple charts against a single table
• Incorporate text, charts, and images within one report
• Chart types available include: Bar, Pie, Pareto, Line,
Histogram, Horizontal Histogram, Stacked Column,
Stacked Bar and Clustered Column
• Use a variety of charts: crosstabs, bar/3D bar, pie/
doughnut, line, gauge, funnel, scatter, dot density,
waterfall and more
Schedule reports with Data Monitor
Report Monitoring (Optional)
• Generate reports defined with ReportBuilder to run
according to a user-defined schedule
• Monitor report parameters against specified thresholds
• View generated reports within Windchill at any time
• Automatically notify users when a threshold has
been crossed
• Optionally define monitors against critical thresholds
• Escalate actions if the deviation continues
• Automatically alert specified users when specified
threshold is surpassed
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Platform Specifications*
• Prerequisite: PTC Windchill PDMLink, PTC Windchill
ProjectLink or PTC Arbortext Content Manager
• Languages:
-- Basic Reporting: English, Chinese (Traditional and
Simplified), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
Spanish, Russian
-- Enterprise Reporting (Cognos): English, Chinese
(Simplified), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish
• Operating system: Microsoft Windows ®, UNIX ®, Linux®
• Browser: Internet Explorer®, Mozilla Firefox®
• Database: Oracle ® 11 and SQL Server 2008
*For up-to-date platform support information, please go to:
PTC support page
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herein is furnished for informational use only, is subject to change without notice, and should
not be construed as a guarantee, commitment, condition or offer by PTC. PTC, the PTC logo,
and all PTC product names and logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of PTC and/
or its subsidiaries in the United States and in other countries. All other product or company
names are property of their respective owners. The timing of any product release, including
any features or functionality, is subject to change at PTC’s discretion.
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