What is Bold Reports® Cloud Reporting?
Bold Reports® Cloud is an online solution for analyzing web data with interactive reports, tracking key metrics, and monitoring your business.
It is an end-to-end solution for creating, managing, and sharing interactive business reports that includes a report designer for easy composing.
You can create a report with no software installation and no IT support. All you need is a computer with a modern browser and an internet connection.
Key features
Cloud Reporting includes report management, a drag-and-drop report designer, versioning, user management, scheduling, flexible permissions, a Report Viewer, export, custom branding, many data sources, and data visualizations.
Report management: Reports can be efficiently organized under categories. Permission to view the reports can be given to specific users or groups.
Business user friendly: The user-friendly drag-and-drop report designer enables business users to create and publish reports without any assistance from IT.
Versioning: All items stored in the Bold Reports® Report Server are versioned, so it is possible to revert to an older version.
User management: Users can be easily organized into groups to accurately map the structure of small and large organizations.
Scheduling: Reports can be generated and emailed according to a schedule. Schedules can run hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly, and can deliver reports by email, to FTP or SFTP locations, or to Amazon S3 buckets.
Flexible permissions: A flexible permission scheme controls access to read, write, and delete reports.
View reports: The built-in HTML 5 RDL Report Viewer control allows the user to view reports through the browser.
Export: You can export RDL reports to the 7 core formats: PDF, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, CSV, XML, and HTML. TXT is also supported.
Custom branding: The Report Server has built-in customization capabilities that allow you to add your organization’s name, logo, welcome note, etc.
Wide variety of data sources: All commonly used data sources, such as Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and all RESTful web services, are supported.
Rich selection of data visualizations: You get charts, grids, and several filtering options using data pickers and combo boxes.
How to get started
To get started, register and create your site, create a report, organize reports in categories, set permissions, and schedule report delivery.
- Get started to register and create your site.
- Create a report in the browser designer.
- Manage categories to organize reports.
- Manage permissions to control who can view and edit reports.
- Schedule a report for email or file delivery.
Frequently asked questions
Do I need to install anything?
No. It runs in the browser and needs no installation. You need a computer with a modern browser and an internet connection.
Can I connect to a database on my own network?
Yes. Allow inbound connections from the Bold Reports® IP addresses in your firewall. See IP addresses to whitelist for remote database access.
Where is my site hosted, and how is my data protected?
Your site runs on Google Cloud Platform. See Overview of Bold Reports® Security for authentication, authorization, data security and monitoring details.
How to create a support incident
If you cannot find the information you need in the self-help resources above, contact us to create a support ticket.