In addition to the comprehensive Business Intelligence tools available via COINS Open Architecture reporting, COINS have recently introduced Report Scheduling and Automatic Alerts. The Scheduling feature enables pre-defined reports to be run at set times and/or at regular intervals and to be combined with rules, (for example run-time options) and then optionally to be automatically e-mailed to a recipient.

The new Automatic Alert feature is particularly beneficial when used with a scheduled report, but it can be applied to any report designed using OA functionality. Effectively, it enables COINS to run a report at a preset time, interrogate the report itself and send an e-mail to selected people (if certain conditions within the report are met).  For example, if a value on the report meets certain conditions, an alert will be brought to someone’s attention.