Data analysis - Format
Flat reporting
A mostly fixed report, usually rows and columns, with little interaction for the person viewing it
What's it for?
Produces a fixed report that is easy to print, email or archive and looks the same each time.
For example…
Finance receives the same fixed purchase-order report every morning
Finance receives the same fixed monthly report of invoices by supplier as rows and columns, with no filters or drill-down controls
Think of it like…
Printed table in a PDF — what you see is what was run; there is no drill-down menu