Patent ID: 8145635

Claim:
A method for reporting, comprising: generating a report from an object instance set, comprising generating a table of data entries, wherein the data entries comprise an attribute or a data entry generated from the object instance set, wherein each data entry generated from the object instance set is displayed with a data exploration button next to the data entry; wherein the data entry generated from the object instance set comprises a measure or an aggregated data entry, wherein the aggregated data entry comprises a set of measures that have been aggregated for each object in the object instance set; receiving a user selection of the data exploration button on the report to display a submenu, causing a list of dimensions to display in the submenu by which the measure or the aggregated data entry in the report can be disaggregated and reaggregated, receiving a selection by a user of one dimension in the list of dimensions; providing the measure or the aggregated data entry disaggregated and reaggregated using a dimension from the list of dimensions based at least in part on the selection of the one dimension by the user; and presenting a new report of the measure or the aggregated data entry disaggregated and reaggregated; receiving another request to explore the measure or the aggregate data entry in the new report, wherein the request is made by a user selecting another data exploration button next to the measure or the aggregated data entry in the new report.