Advanced Analysis: The AUTOLINE Advanced Analysis system provides paperless exception reporting with the ability to Drill Down into summarised figures at any point for further detailed analysis.
Datasets: Actual or Budget figures
Drill Down: The process of Drill Down allows a summarised figure at any level to be dissected by the next level of detail.
Drill down files: The index files that are generated by the option Generate drill down.
Formal files: The files that are generated by the option Process raw data.
Inclusion Field: The fields that contain the different inclusion codes dictating what data can be shown or excluded in an Advanced Analysis view.
Overlay: An executable program. Used to give certain Advanced Analyses greater drill-down capabilities.
Profile: A view inside a Topic. Each TOPIC can have up to 8 different profiles.
Raw data file: A file that is updated from a Report Generator Update report and which is used to feed the Advanced Analysis formal files.
Rawfield: An individual field in the raw data file.
Report Generator: An AUTOLINE product used in this case to write reports that capture data from different files and, on execution of the update command, write to a single raw data file.
Rotation: Rotation allows the view at any stage to display an alternative breakdown.
Timeslice: The period(s) that are to be displayed in the Advanced Analysis.
Topic: A generic term used to describe an Advanced Analysis on a specific area.
A Topic is made up of Profiles. Each profile has a different view of the same data.
Update report: The reports that are run in modules' Report Generators, updating raw data files to feed advanced analysis.
X-axis: One of the two axes that exist in a profile.
Y-axis: The second axis of a profile.
