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Process and Operational Support
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Activity Summaries
The line between operational and analytical reporting is not simply that one is at the detail level and the
other includes groups and summaries. There is a lot of business value in rolling up details into groups
and aggregating measures into summary totals. Even when these summaries are compared across differ-
ent business dimensions, such as time or geography, these comparisons can be performed appropriately
using operational data. The most significant difference between operational and analytical reporting is
the approach taken to get to the result. If these summaries are performed within an operational scope
(such as a single manufacturing plant or within a finite period of time) and the results should be easy
reconciled back to the details, then this is an extension of operational reporting. However, if the results