ICI provides a number of out-of-the-box reports that have been strategically articulated to cater specific business needs. They provide an insight to different entities, states and progress of your Agreements, Clauses and Templates so that you can take necessary actions. They enable you make informed decisions by analyzing processes, cycle times, deviations, risks (expiry, renewal, actions pending, and so on.) and SLA’s at each level of an Agreement. Using the right filters to generate vital Reports provides clarity, allows you to correlate functionalities, and improve response time. Such information is valuable to the organization and has a positive impact on your business. It helps you identify future direction, improve performance, mitigate risk and increase revenue.
In ICI, Reports have been grouped based on their usage into Admin, Legal and Compliance, and Workflow for ease-of-use. You can view only those Reports that you are authorized to. You can either view all Reports together or you have the option to filter the reports based on the grouping, using the drop-down or the tabs. You can access individual Reports by clicking them and providing filters for each of them based on your specific requirement.
Reports are now enhanced to be displayed as per the language selected in the Locale Settings in the User Preferences. These reports are driven on the basis of user profile Language settings.
You also have the option to export the Reports to Excel, CSV or PDF formats.
ICI offers the functionality to classify Business Type/ Contracting agreement type at contract type level. With this release, core reports will be limited to Contracting business application type. Users with access to standard and insights reports will only be able to see data related to agreements with Contracting business application type. Thus, the reporting data would not contain any sourcing agreements.
In this section, let us understand ICI Reports in detail.
Reports are mainly divided into 2 groups:
1. Default Reports: ICI provides a number of out-of-the-box Reports that have been strategically designed to cater to specific business needs. Although these Reports are default, the user will only be able to view the Reports that they are authorized to. Based on their usage, these Reports are displayed on the Agreement Details page or the Report tile.
2. Custom Reports: Customized Reports may be deployed in ICI based on the requirements of the customer by editing default reports or by creating entirely new custom reports or by deploying reports provided by the customer. These reports are customized for a customer based on their requirement.
Here is the list and a brief description of Reports in ICI.
ICI provides the ability to define sub-roles for the Approver role. With this, all the capabilities of the Approver are were enabled for users at the sub-role level. This capability has now been extended to reports so that users can have relevant information and make informed decisions.
With this release, the Detailed Report, User Profiling Report and Agreements Pending Approval Report have now been modified to display the Approver sub-roles such as Contract Admin, Legal Approver and others.
Reports that are available on different tabs of the Reports tile are further categorized into the following groups:
Reports that are Agreement specific are available on the Agreement Details page.
To change the localization settings of a report:
1. Select Preferences to view your preferences. The My Preferences window opens.
2. Click Locale Settings to view the options.
3. Select Language to choose a language that you would like to view the report in.
4. Select the Time Zone, Date Format and Time Format options for the drop-down list for the selected language.
5. Click Save to save your options.
6. Click the Reports tab.
7. Select the report that you want to view.
8. Click the chart to view the details of the selected report.
The report columns will be displayed based on the selected filters.
Previously, all Date related columns and parameters in all ICI reports were displayed in the UTC Time Zone in the mm/dd/yyyy format. ICI allowed users to set the Date and Time format as per their preferred locale settings.
With this release, all reports will display the Date and Time as per the Time Zone set by the user in the user preferences.
However, the following points need to be noted:
1. Click the Reports tile on the Dashboard. The Reports page opens.
2. Click a report Dashboard tile, for example User Login Report. The report opens in a new tab.
3. Enter a User Name for which you want to view the report.
4. Click View Report. The default time zone of the report is (UTC) Coordinated Universal Time, based on which the Login Date & Time column is displayed.
5. Click the Time Zone drop-down. The available time zones will be displayed.
6. Select the time zone in which you want to view the report, for example (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada).
7. Click View Report. The Login Date & Time column values will be displayed according to the newly selected time zone.
The tool-tip for the Report Generated On time-stamp also displays the selected time zone.
8. Click the Export drop down menu to download the report in Excel, PDF or CSV format.
In addition to the reports that are already available on the Dashboard as KPIs (Agreement Deviation Report, Agreements Pending Approval Report, Agreements Pending Execution Reports, Average Agreement Turn Around Time Report, Clauses Pending Approval Report, Expiring Agreement Report, and Templates Pending Report), users can now also add the following reports:
For example, the Signature Type Report KPI depicts the percentage of electronic signatures in ICI. If the number of electronic signatures is 6 and the number of manual signatures is 83, then the KPI is calculated as 6/83+6 = 6/89 (total number of agreements). Therefore, the percentage of electronic signatures displayed on the KPI tile on the Dashboard is 6 (rounded off to nearest digit).
Other reports that are available KPIs on the Dashboard include:
To enable access to platform analytics reports through the Reports tile:
1. Click "Admin" > Security Groups > Security Groups. The Security Groups page opens.
2. Click the view record icon next to the Security Group for which you want to enable the report access. The Security Group Details page opens.
3. Click Edit. The edit view is displayed.
4. Click on the Report tab.
On the Reports page, click the tile of the report which you want to view, for example Agreement Deviation.
In edit mode, users can select or change Visualizations and add or remove Fields and customize the report as required.
To save these customizations, click File > Save as. The Save your report popup is displayed.
Enter a name for your report.
Click Save. The report gets saved and is displayed in the My Reports section on the reports page.
Once the report is saved, reopening it displays two options in the File menu:
On the Reports page, users can also edit the report name or delete a report.
Customized reports created and saved in the My Reports section can further be shared with other users through Security Groups. These reports are indicated with a shared report icon and will be available to other users under Custom Reports on the Reports page.
This release introduces multiple core reports as part of platform analytics in direct query and import mode such as:
To view Platform Analytics Reports follow steps as shown in following example.
Example: Tagged Attribute Report
For ICI user with “View” access:
On “Tagged Attribute Report” page
On report page
A new window is popped where user can write the name of the file he wants to save. Click on “Save” button.
Agreement Clause Content Report
In this report, a visualization depicting top clauses which caused most agreement deviations is displayed. Clause description, original clause text and deviated agreement clause text is available on drilldown too.
For ICI user with “View” access:
For ICI user with “Manage” access:
Agreement Deviation Report
This report provides details related to Agreements that have registered deviations from the standard Clause language definitions in the library.
Agreements Pending Approval Report: This report contains the following parameters:
You can view the agreement details by scrolling down on the Agreements Pending Approval page.
You can view more details about the agreements by clicking the specific agreement and then clicking Drill Through. This opens the list of agreements associated with the specific contract type. Follow the same process to know more about the agreements by ageing days.
Follow the same process to filter agreements per organization unit, contract type, ageing days.
You can follow the same process to view the other reports.
Agreements Pending Execution
Approved Requests Waiting for Contract Creation Report
This report provides a consolidated list of Requests for which the contract creation has not begun. It enables the user to view all the actions that need to be taken and reduce chances of missing pending Requests to create Contracts.
Average Agreement Turn Around Time Report
This report provides information on the average number of days required for executing an Agreement or Amendment, from the date of its creation till the date of its execution.
Clause Profiling Report
This report helps in the mapping of Clauses to the corresponding Templates, with respect to the selected Contract Types. It helps application administrators to view the impact of a particular Clause on all the Templates that have the Clause added in the system.
Clauses Pending Approval Report
This report provides information on the number of clauses that are pending approval for an Agreement or Amendment along with the duration and the version.
Clause Summary Report
This report provides summerized information based on “Clause Name” and “Clause Version”.
CLM Activity Report
This report provides a quick view for the business leaders on the current high level status of the Agreements, Contract Requests and user activity to gauge the adoption of the ICI platform in their organization and take corrective action to increase adoption of the platform.
Cycle Time Report
This report shows the cycles for an Agreement and the change of states from the date of creation to the date of execution as well as the elapsed time.
Expired Agreements Report
Expiring Agreements Report
Signature Type Report
Template Clause Report
This report helps in the mapping templates to the corresponding Clauses, with respect to the Contract Types. It helps administrators to view the impact when a particular Clause or Template is changed in the system.
Templates Pending Approval Report
This report provides details related to Templates pending approvals, along with the duration and version.
User Login Report
To help administrators to monitor the DiscoverAI’s self-learning progress, a new AI model training performance report has been introduced for each AI model defined in ICI. The report provides a check over the discovery performance for attributes and the need to train AI model with more examples.
To access the report:
1. Click "Configure" > Masterdata on the Home page. The Masterdata index page opens.
2. Click "View Details" icon corresponding to the AI Model you want to view report for. For example, Payment Terms data. The masterdata aka AI Model Details page opens.
The report’s table includes below mentioned details as columns with the total for each column:
You can filter the report to view results for specific Attributes either from the Attribute filter provided at the top or by clicking the specific attribute name in the Attributes column in the report table.
In Icertis Contract Intelligence, you can view preconfigured reports by navigating to the Reports tile. ICI currently offers two types of dynamic reports: Power BI reports and SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) reports.
Starting from version 8.2, Icertis provided the tools to create agreement-based SSRS reports and customize dynamic views. These views, in turn, can be used in Power BI datasets and SSRS reports.
Dynamic views contain data from one or more objects, giving you an integrated view across the environment. For example, you can create a view showing all the agreements pending approval. This saves you the hassle of opening each agreement to look up its approval status.
Dynamic views are also automatically updated when related objects or extended objects are created or changed.
With dynamic views, you can create new views or update existing views for generating Power BI and SSRS reports. You can download and view the dynamic view definition in JSON format. This topic covers the SSRS-based report management. For information about Power BI reports, see <Power BI Reports>.
SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) is a server-based report generating software system made by Microsoft and is used as a solution to build custom reports from a variety of data sources such as SQL databases and other external sources. Administrators can share reports with users based on access permissions and user groups.
In ICI, you can create custom SSRS reports by uploading a new report definition in a JSON file. SSRS reports can use data from dynamic views.
This section helps you understand the structure of dynamic reports when they are generated from dynamic views. Each dynamic view is defined in a JSON file. Thus, if we identify and modify the JSON file for a dynamic view, we can modify the report created using that particular dynamic view.
These quick steps show you how to access the report configuration settings and summarize the purpose of the tabs on the Report Configuration page.
The Report Configurations page is displayed, containing subtabs where you can view and configure reports:
As a Report Admin, you can modify dynamic views in ICI. These changes are made in the JSON file for the dynamic view. You can make changes such as add or remove columns and change the data that is fetched from different source agreements.
Changes to the views reflect in the dynamic reports that use data from these views. You can view the available dynamic views by navigating to Configure tile > System Configuration > Report Configurations > Dynamic Views.
To modify a dynamic view:
1. Go to Configure tile > System Configuration > Report Configurations > Dynamic Views.
2. Download the JSON file for the dynamic view: click the three-dot menu to the far right in the report name row and select Download.
The view JSON file is downloaded to your local system.
3. Open the JSON file in a text editor, make the required configuration changes, and save the file.
For example, to add a column, you can copy one of the existing JSON objects for a column and change the attribute values such as column display name.
The ability to create your own custom SSRS reports and update them as required gives you more control over reporting.
You can download any of the existing templates or report definitions and use them to build your own report definition file in JSON format. You can also upload a new JSON file to create a custom SSRS report.
The template JSON file is downloaded on your local system.
3. Change the JSON objects as required and save the file.
4. Navigate back to the Reports Configurations > Dynamic Reports, click Upload and attach the modified JSON file.
On successful upload of the JSON file, a new custom SSRS report is created.
(Optional) To verify whether the changes have been successfully implemented, click History in the left pane and view the generated logs.
If you want to make changes in an SSRS report that is fetched from a dynamic view, you must first update the dynamic view JSON file and then update the report JSON file.
To know which dynamic view is used in your SSRS report, download the report JSON file and look for the SourceEntityName attribute value.
After identifying the dynamic view that’s linked to the dynamic report, the next step is to update the dynamic view. The configuration properties of a dynamic view are stored in a JSON file. To update a dynamic view, you must download the JSON file, make changes, and upload it back.
3. On Report Configurations > Dynamic Views, click the Upload button and attach the modified JSON file.
After the JSON file is uploaded, a success notification is displayed in the lower-right corner of the window.
Just modifying the dynamic view is not sufficient. To display the changes, you must update the changes in the dynamic report JSON file.
Go to Configure tile > System Configuration > Report Configurations > Dynamic Reports, and download the JSON file for the dynamic report.
Tip: To add a column, you can copy one of the existing JSON objects for a column and change the attribute values such as column name and column position.
You can download any of the existing templates or report definitions, and use it to build your own report definition file in JSON format. You can also upload a new JSON file to create a custom SSRS report.
Go to Configure tile > System Configuration > Report Configurations > Dynamic views, and download a template or an existing view.
The template JSON file is downloaded on your local system.
On successful upload of the JSON file, a new custom SSRS report will be created.
Related Topics: Agreement Management | Agreement Details Page Reports | Legal and Compliance Reports | Admin Reports | Workflow Reports | Power BI Integration with ICI | Clause and Deviation Insight Reports | Obligation Management Reports | Sourcing Reports | Release_Notes |