Central Reporting Services

YSoft SafeQ supports Usage and Costs Reporting interface integration with MS SQL OLAP Data Warehouse.

Overview

YSoft SafeQ captures information about the print environment, devices and users. The data are accesible for large print environments by integration with Microsoft SQL OLAP Data Warehouse and can be included in company's business intelligence systems.

Pre-requisites

Available Reporting Data in Central Reporting Services (CRS)

Scale - countable data, such as the number of pages, price, etc.:

  • Print Stats = print detail

  • Accounting Cost Center Distinct Count = number of different cost centers

  • Device Distinct Count = number of different devices

  • Device Group Distinct Count = number of different device groups

  • User Distinct Count = number of different users

  • Smartq Cdc Counters = counter value (Counter stats only)

  • Safeq Last Counters Log = dates of the last updated counters (only Last completed data)

  • Safeq Last Stats Log = dates of the last updated statistics (only Last completed data)

Dimension -- descriptive information for Scale data (such as who printed, the device they used, etc.)

  • Accounting Cost Center = name/number of the accounting cost center

  • Accounting Type = paper type and job colour

  • Datetime = period of time – rounded up to the time (only Base Stats)

  • Device Cost Center = name of the device's cost center

  • Device = name of the device

  • Device Group = names of the device's groups

  • File Type = file type used

  • Job Type = job type used

  • Job Title = title of the job

  • Project = projects

  • Server = server name

  • Time = period of time (only Full stats)

  • Counter Date= date/time at which the counter changed

  • User = user name

  • Forced = type of forced print rule used

  • Date= date (only Real Volume)

Detailed description of *Distinct Count* scales:

  • Accounting Cost Center Distinct Count: number of cost centers using a service. For example, the number of cost centers printing to the current device can be displayed.

  • Device Distinct Count: number of devices. For example, you can see how many devices are handling the current job type (print/copy/...)

  • Device Group Distinct Count: number of device groups (see above).

  • User Distinct Count: number of users using a service. For example, the number of users who are printing colour jobs.

Detailed description of Print Stats scales:

Scales used on the MS-SQL ENT and MS-SQL STD platform:

  • Jobs Cnt: number of jobs

  • Pages: number of outputs, without printer type distinguishing

  • Pages Normalized: number of outputs normalized to small pages (1x large page = 2x small page)

  • Papers: quantity of paper used, without printer type distinguishing

  • Papers Normalized: quantity of paper used, normalized to small pages (1x large page = 2x small page)

  • Price: output price (amount)

  • Meters: percent of meters in stats (only Real Volume)

Scales used on the MS-SQL ENT platform:

  • Avg Cvg: average coverage – not used

  • Avg Toner Cmy: average coverage of colour toner – not used

  • Avg Toner K: average coverage of black toner – not used

  • Price Per Page: output price (average per page)

Detailed description of SmartQ CRS counters scales:

  • Value: value counters

Detailed description of SafeQ Last Counters logscales:

  • CRS Counter Last Date: Last date counters from CRS

Detailed description of SafeQ Last Stats Log dimension:

  • CML Last Counters Date: Last date of CML counters

  • CML Last Jobaccs Date: Last date of accounted job from CML

  • CML Last Joblogs Date: Last date of logged job from CML

  • CML Last Jobs Date: Last date of job from CML

  • CRS Stats Last Date: : Last date from CRS statistics

  • CRS Stats Counters Date: : Last date of CRS counters

Detailed description of *Last Completed Data *scales:

  • Data Completeness Date: Last date of CRS counters

Detailed description of the Accounting Cost Center dimension:

Specific cost center of accounted job. Use this value to determine the current cost centers (for example, in the users report):

  • Accounting Cost Center - Number: the number of the accounting cost center

  • Accounting Cost Center - Name: the name of the accounting cost center

Detailed description of Accounting Type dimension:

  • Accounting Type: output type (b/w copy, b/w print, colour copy, colour print large (A3/legal/tabloid), scan, etc...). Can be used to learn the output type of each user or device center.

Detailed description of Counter Description dimension:

  • Counter Description: counter description

Detailed description of Datetime dimension:

  • Datetime: Date-time rounded to the hour

  • Day: Day

  • Day Of Week: day of week

  • Hour: Hour

  • Month: Month

  • Time: Time

  • Week Number: Week number

  • Year: Year

  • Date: Date

  • Date Hour: Hierarchy date-time rounded to a whole hour

Detailed description of Device dimension (copier, device, MFP):

  • Device - Activation Date: activation date of the device (date of the first device use via SafeQ)

  • Device - Backend: print backend (according to SafeQ web interface)

  • Device - Contact Person: contact person (according to SafeQ web interface)

  • Device - Cost Center Name: name of the device's cost center (according to SafeQ web interface). For the current cost center, use the dimension "Accounting Costs Center".

  • Device - Cost Center Number: the device's cost center number (according to SafeQ web interface). For the current cost center, use the dimension "Accounting Costs Center".

  • Device - Deactivation Date: activation date of device (date of the first device use via SafeQ)

  • Device - Description: device description (according to SafeQ web interface)

  • Device - Device Group: device group (according to SafeQ web interface)

  • Device - Name: device name (according to SafeQ web interface)

  • Device - Driver: device's accounting driver (according to SafeQ web interface)

  • Device - Equipment Id: device's equipment ID (according to SafeQ web interface)

  • Device - IP Address: device's IP address or DNS name (according to SafeQ web interface)

  • Device - Location: device's location (according to SafeQ web interface)

  • Device - Service Agreement Id: device's service agreement identification number (according to SafeQ web interface)

  • Device - Accounting Driver: device's accounting drive

  • Device - Device Id: device's ID

  • Device - Printer Type Name: device's printer type name

Detailed description of Device Group dimension:

Device's group. For example: the number of jobs printed for a specific device group.

  • Device Group - Name: device group name (according to SafeQ web interface)

  • Device Group - Type: device group type (RS, ORS, CML)

Detailed descriptions of File Type dimension:

Job file type. For example, which jobs users printed, or how many jobs of a certain job type were printed.

  • Filetype - Name: job filetype name (according to SafeQ web interface)

  • Filetype - Extension: job filetype name extension (according to SafeQ web interface)

  • Filetype - Prefix: job filetype name prefix (according to SafeQ web interface)

Detailed description of Job Type dimension:

  • Job Type: job type (print, copy, scan)

Detailed description of Job Origin dimension:

  • Job Origin: origin of printed job – the name of the station (server), from which the job was printed

Detailed description of Job Title dimension:

  • Job Title: title of each job as it will appear in the list of all printed jobs. For example: relation to the user or device.

Detailed description of Printer Type dimension:

Device model (according to SafeQ web interface):

  • Printer Type - Driver: Windows print driver

  • Printer Type - Name: device model name

Detailed description of Project dimension:

  • Project - Description: project description

  • Project - Code: project code

Detailed description of Server dimension:

  • Server - Cluster name: cluster node name

  • Server - IP: server IP address

  • Server - Name: server name

Detailed description of Counter Date dimension:

  • Modification Date: modification date rounded to days

  • Modification Date And Hour: modification date rounded to a whole hour

  • Retrieval Date: retrieval date rounded to day

  • Retrieval Date And Hour: retrieval date rounded to a whole hour

Detailed description of Time dimension:

Can be used when defining reports or for viewing device usage over a period of time:

  • Day: day of the month when the job was printed – sequential number in month

  • Day Of Week: day of the week when the job was printed – sequential number in week

  • Hour: hour that the job was printed

  • Month: month when the job was printed

  • Time: complete time data, including the printing process jobs

  • Week Number: week when the job was printed – sequential number in year

  • Year: year when the job was printed

  • Date: date when the job was printed

  • Date Hour: date and time when the job was printed (time is rounded to a whole hour )

  • Small Time: date and time when the job was printed (time is rounded to seconds)

Detailed description of User dimension:

  • User - Cost Center Name: name of user's cost center

  • User - Cost Center Number: number of user's cost center

  • User - Email: user's e-mail

  • User - Full Name: user's full name (surname and name)

  • User - Login: user's login (user's primary login)

  • User - Name: user's name

  • User - Surname: user's surname

  • User - Number: user's personal ID (according to SafeQ)

Detailed description of Forced dimension:

  • Forced: Forced type (Not Forced, Forced BW, Forced Duplex, Forced BW&Duplex)