Community-Based Strategies for Generating Reports

摘要

A strategy is described for maintaining a plurality report logic units in a network-accessible community report system. An agnostic reporting module in a local environment can peruse the reports offered by the community report system and download a report logic unit corresponding to a selected report. The reporting module generates the report using a mapping module. The mapping module maps data fields identified in the downloaded report logic unit to one or more data sources. The mapping module uses a data connector to establish a link between the data fields and data sources. This strategy provides a mechanism by which an entity can be conveniently informed of relevant issues that may affect it.