But it gets even more amazing. There are several forms of data that unlike business tools, Dream Report offers purpose built handling for. These include Real-time, Alarm and Historical data structures. A Real-time Data Source provides access to instantaneous data or data that is a response to a current value query. This is important for real-time dashboards and statistics, and for triggering analytics based on process parameters. An example can be the automatic generation of an End of Batch Report or the generation of a Run Report for a piece of equipment. Alarm History data typically comes from connection to an Alarm or Event Log, that can be queried for a range of information. These logs offer many fields for querying and it is common to generate reports of the most common alarms, alarms sorted by priority, equipment, site or by operator. There are even best practices for alarm reporting (ISA 18.2), that define how alarms should be managed over time for continuous improvement. Finally, Historical Data is typically provided by a database of some sort and can be queried for arrays of data. In many cases, History data from specialized Historian products can be pre-filtered or pre-analyzed by the Historian. Historian data is also often stored with compression to improve performance and reduce archive sizes. This compression can be a challenge for traditional Business Intelligence products. Dream Report understands these challenges and will make use of ALL your data sources, in the most powerful ways possible.