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Gain Actionable Insights with Sharperlight Enterprise Reporting

Sharperlight Enterprise reporting enables your data to be securely shared between all your enterprise locations and updated and validated in real-time via the intuitive data entry and reporting interface, supporting decision-making and strategic planning.  

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Powerful Reporting & Analysis for Your Data

Sharperlight Enterprise Reporting delivers advanced reporting and analysis capabilities for organisations, empowering you to connect, visualise, and leverage your data like never before. It involves generating reports that provide insights into key performance indicators (KPIs), financial metrics, and operational data, helping businesses evaluate their performance, identify trends, and make data-driven decisions.  

Sharperlight Enterprise Reporting allows you to design and present dynamic tables, charts, pivot tables, and presentations in a format and layout that aligns with your organisational requirements. By addressing the common limitations of web browser rendering, its web-based report designer ensures a seamless user experience. 

 

Sharperlight Enterprise Reporting Software Benefits

For data-driven businesses, efficient reporting processes are essential for unlocking insights, improving decision-making, and driving long-term success. Here are several key advantages of implementing a powerful solution like Enterprise Reporting:

Live, Dynamic & Refreshable Reports

Through Sharperlight’s Bidirectional Writeback system, your data is securely shared between all your enterprise locations and updated and validated in real-time via the intuitive data entry and reporting interface.

  • Excel® Add-in with secure and direct access to data sources and refreshed with current data 
  • Web channel displays tabular html and rendered charts using Kendo UI for beautiful graphical presentation with drilldown 
  • Refresh chart data in real-time 
  • Enterprise-wide access to sources 

Web Reporting

Sharperlight can present dynamic tables, charts, pivot tables, and presentation reports using its own web service.  

  • The web content delivered through Publisher can be graduated with basic HTML4 tables, more complex HTML4 with Javascript automation, all the way to sophisticated HTML5 visualisations
  • The core charting engine renders the graphics in HTML5 
  • Every published query has a unique web address referencing the query and the output style. This means each query can be uniquely referenced in a webpage, or in an email, or bookmarked in a web browser
  • For pixel perfect report layouts, Publisher has a WYSIWYG report designer that can output reports to PDF, HTML and Microsoft Word

Dashboarding

Dashboards are created and maintained using an HTML5 interface in a web browser.  

  • Tiles have a default content view and an expanded view that can be displayed by double clicking on the tile title bar
  • A single dashboard can mashup content from multiple data sources
  • Every dashboard has a unique URL address, and they can be embedded into any browser interface that supports a URL
  • Tiles can auto align to each other or overlap, each can have different colour scheme, and tooltips can be added to the tile title bar

Excel Reporting

The Sharperlight Excel® Add-in gives end-users easy access to the Query Builder and a drilldown data explorer. 

  • The Microsoft Excel Add-in is compatible with Excel versions from Office 2007 to 2021 and also local install of Office 365
  • Cell, Table and Sheet formulas
  • Filter with cell referencing and automatic lookup windows appear when double clicking referenced cells 
  • Query Manager for managing and re-using seed queries in the same workbook 
  • The Sharperlight formulas are drilldown points which can loaded into Explorer for slice and dice analysis

Data Capture

Sharperlight has multiple methods of data capture. From within Microsoft Excel, the Sharperlight Add-in can validate and bulk load records using its template driven Writeback interface. 

  • All data updates are managed through the secure datamodel layer where rules and constraints are enforced 
  • Extensive control on lookup and validation lists to ensure that incomplete or erroneous information is caught in the data entry and not during the data load 
  • Data capture uses the Sharperlight Web Service to interface with the target data store and therefore the data entry does not need a direct connection to the target system

Query Builder

The Query Builder is a user interface with separate panes for filters, field selection and output.  

  • The datamodel acts as a presentation layer between the complexity of the data source and presents to the users a unified view of query tables, with available fields and relationships
  • The Query Builder uses drag and drop to select filters and outputs, most fields can be a filter and/or an output. The query engine will construct the query on the fly and optimise the syntax
  • The filters can inherit, and display, lookup lists from the datamodel and there are standard lookup wizards for dates and periods
  • Query results can be previewed in the Query Builder to assist in query design and Preview grid supports drill for further analysis

Scheduler

The Scheduler is an automation interface for the execution of tasks on a recurring and ad-hoc basis.  

  • Optionally and conditionally execute reports that can store, save, and email content
  • Include expression-based logic to drive multiple scenarios. 
  • Send notification and exception reporting
  • Create, collate, and deliver Board Report packs

Report Designer

The report designer provides more control on the positioning and layout of report pages, and it addresses many of the printing limitations inherit in web browser rendering.  

  • Uses the Query Builder to construct the data sets and it automatically integrates the query as a report data source
  • Allows pixel perfect control of field and object placement for reports and business documents
  • Reports can be accessed through the Sharperlight Web Service and run locally on computers that have the Sharperlight rich client 
  • In the web the reports use the common filter bar to feed parameters back to the underlying reporting engine

Find Out More About Sharperlight Enterprise Reporting

Discover how Enterprise Reporting can transform the way your organisation accesses, analyses, and utilises data. By centralising information, delivering real-time insights, and enabling customisable reporting, this powerful solution empowers businesses to make informed decisions, improve compliance, and drive growth—all while adapting to the evolving demands of today’s data-driven world.

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Training

Whether it is refresher training, teaching new member of staff or learning new software, TouchstoneEnergy clients can take advantage of our training services, delivered in bitesize chunks.

Whether your training needs are delivered on site at your office or in our training centre, you can be assured that training and tuition will be delivered by industry experts, experienced in dealing with new and existing users of our systems.

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Support

Our UK-based support Helpdesk team are technical and application experts in all our solutions. They provide our clients with peace of mind that if you experience any issues with your software, when you partner with TouchstoneEnergy there's no need to worry - help is there when you need it. With the choice between an Essential or Premium Support Plan, we give our clients a comprehensive service - whether you want to report a fault or have a question regarding the use of your software.

We work to a published SLA giving our clients the benefit and peace of mind that we do what we say.

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Cloud Hosting & Managed Services   

With over 250 years combined experience of deploying business systems to the Energy sector, our team has the necessary skills and industry knowledge to configure and align your solution with your business processes. With high quality data management solutions and post-deployment support, it's never been easier to manage your business' reporting requirements and strategic management capabilities while reducing spending in the long term.

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System Optimisation

At TouchstoneEnergy, we understand that even the best ERP and EAM systems need regular review and refinement to stay aligned with evolving business goals. That’s where our System Optimisation service comes in.

We work closely with you to analyse how your current system is performing and identify areas for improvement — whether it’s simplifying processes, improving data flow, enhancing reporting, or unlocking underused functionality.

Our proven optimisation frameworks help energy and natural resources companies maximise return on investment, reduce operational friction, and support better decision-making.

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Business System Integrations

We provide Energy companies with an integrated Infor Enterprise solution which comprises of Financial Accounting, Budgets & Forecasts and EAM technology. We provide technical support which helps your business to achieve its goals, and/or with regulatory compliance where necessary.
We have a hands-on approach, working with your team to configure and develop the solution to suit your business needs as well as providing end user training – helping you to streamline your business processes and improve operational efficiency.

Following our initial audit, our specialists will select the right platform to meet your organisation's goals, adopting the best tech solution for your needs.

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System Review

If your finance or business system is no longer meeting your organisation’s requirements, chances are that the system itself is not the issue, but instead it requires updates to ensure it aligns with the changes being made within your business.
Drawing on our extensive experience in the Energy sector, we can review your system and revive it, with optimised and integrated processes, to provide a firm foundation for expansion and ensure that it meets your business needs.

Regulation of all of the systems within your organisation - governance and business processes, time management, money management (including accounting and tax obligations) - is key to a successful project, and to a professional environment generally. Our team can identify where potential issues lie, and use the data we collect to implement new, more effective strategies.

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Implementation and Upgrades

Whether you are considering an ERP project or have already purchased an Infor Solution, implementing a new system will significantly impact the way your organisation operates, so it's important that you select the right implementation partner.

We take the time to listen, learn and understand the requirements of your business, completing a full audit of your business' needs in the first instance. We pride ourselves on being a focused team that truly values what our clients require from their investment, and ensure we achieve success.

Our ERP solutions enable you to leverage industry best practices, run mission-critical operations effectively, and gain insight into each role within your organisation, so that you can adapt to changes.

Our cloud ERP tool is designed for every business, and uses analytics to help with decision making in your organisation.

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