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Report Building Software

Feb 26, 2015 7:46AM PST

Hi guys,

I am looking for a piece of software for my business whereby a series of questions formulates an appropriate report to send out to customers. My business specialises in system audits for customers' IT software. So we go round, inspect all their equipment and depending on how much work needs doing, we send a report varying from High Risk, Medium Risk to Low Risk. These are three separate documents we have prepared already but I am just looking for a simple means to create them.

What I am thinking is a list of, say 50 questions that just require a tick, yes or no and depending on those answers, it will work out and display one of the three reports.

Hope this makes sense, if anybody has any suggestions it would be greatly appreciated!

Rosie

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OK, you're in IT.
Feb 26, 2015 8:12AM PST

Wouldn't you be able to write such an app? It's in your domain.
Bob

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Not looking into writing one
Feb 26, 2015 9:24AM PST

I'm assuming there's already something out there that will sastisfy our needs, just need to find it

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It's straight forward.
Feb 26, 2015 9:27AM PST

You have 3 reports.

Based on YOUR formula of the 50 questions it pops out one of the 3.

Sounds like less than a day to me and a great way to show your IT skills.
Bob

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Thanks
Feb 26, 2015 9:38AM PST

Thanks for all your help Bob.

I was on this forum more looking for tips rather than unhelpful sarcastic comments. I am not a technician anyway, and my purpose of this post was to see what was already out there.

Cheers anyway

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Didn't mean it like that.
Feb 26, 2015 2:59PM PST

Your IT background should make this a snap. That is, your everyday IT folk should be able to gen up a spreadsheet or such as part of their services. I know a few IT companies that want to clean fans but that's not IT is it?
Bob

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excel?
Feb 26, 2015 1:40PM PST

Or something using a database?

If this...then that....

If > then =

If < then =

If not = then.....

number weighted choices

If you blah blah blah, would you choose A, B, C?

A=100
B= -100
C = D

Add A & B, result is report E if less than ??? send report AA, if greater than ????? send report BB,
Compare number of A answers to B answers, if less than number of C answers, send report CC

Probably can find the formulas easily, it's been done since the days of punch cards.

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programming multiple choice tests
Feb 26, 2015 1:42PM PST
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Survey Software
Feb 26, 2015 1:49PM PST
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Thanks!
Feb 26, 2015 1:55PM PST

Sweet, thanks James I shall give that a go!

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check out
Feb 26, 2015 9:42AM PST
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My advice
Mar 20, 2015 8:00PM PDT

Report Builder is available as a stand-alone and ClickOnce versions.