Patent ID: 7870016

Claim:
A report management system for managing reports to be used by a business intelligence tool that generates instances of reports including information retrieved from one or more underlying data sources, the report management system comprising: a computer; an interactive modeling user interface executable by the computer to receive user input and to present options for management of reports; a content group manager executable by the computer to manipulate definition of content groups in response to the user input through the interactive modeling user interface, wherein the content group manager handles grouping of content into the content groups and allows at least one of addition of new content groups, modification of existing content groups, and deletion of existing content groups in response to the user input through the interactive modeling user interface; a measure assignment manager executable by the computer to manage assignment of measures to the content groups in response to user input through the modeling user interface; and a report assembler executable by the computer to assemble reports for the content groups based on information of the measures assigned to the content groups.