Answer / jasmeet

Canned reports are Pre-defined reports where requirements are
available from the user through a requirement specification
document.

Ad hoc reports are generated at instance. i.e. Reports are
created spontaneously upon the requirements. It is available
to all level of users who need not be familiar with the query
generation process to run a report. They can create a report
based upon their requirement based upon the business elements
available to them.

Answer / rndp99

simply we can say asa
Canned reports are the reports that are developed by the
developer with given specifications
adhoc reports are the reports that can even be created by
end users with basic knowledge

Answer / naveeng

Hi Everybody,
Canned reports are reusable reports.These reports already
developed the reports as per user report requirement
document.
----------adhoc reports creatig spontaneously upon the
requirements.

Answer / jigar patel

Canned reports are the predefined reports, where in which you get the requirement from the Client through a requirement specification document. Canned reports are developed by BI-Developers. Canned reports are meant for END USERS or CLIENTS who are not supposed to have any technical knowledge.

Adhoc reporting is functionality/feature provided by BI tools where users can create reports on their on using the Business Schema..In Microstrategy language it is the ability of the tool where business-users can create reports on the fly using any of the attributes or metrics from the project schema.

In ad-hoc reporting, technical user(BI-Developers) set up the BI solution, connect it to the data-sources, establish security parameters and determine which objects business users can see. From that point on, the actual reports are created by BUSINESS USERS. Its like creating platform from BUSINESS USERS where they can create reports for themselves without requiring any technical knowledge. So that business users can provide live reporting to the END USERS or CLIENTS.

Answer / tamizh

Canned reports are reports which generates frequently whereas adhoc reports are reports generated based on demand .....

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