Modern businesses today generate an extraordinary volume of operational data ranging from performance and capacity trends to risks and anomalies. When it comes to data protection, the data is there, and organizations need to use it to reduce risk and improve recovery readiness. This is where Veeam ONE, a component of Veeam Data Platform, comes into play. If you are already familiar, it’s no secret that Veeam ONE collects and stores data about virtual and backup environments. What’s important is Veeam ONE’s ability to transform this data into clear and actionable insights. Through its vast number of reports, you gain structured documentation of what is happening in your backup environment and why. This helps bring to light any risks, issues and trends so you can plan and make decisions accordingly.
Veeam One’s HTML-5 based reporting engine provides maximum flexibility, allowing you to reorder columns and filter data sets based on your organization’s requirements. Different teams care about different metrics. Having this ability to customize reports and utilize the same underlying data, you can ensure you are supporting technical teams, auditors, and executives without duplication or manual manipulation every time. After you design the report to show you all relevant data points, simply save the report, and all configuration changes will be preserved. The saved report can be accessed right in the ‘Saved Reports’ section of the web client. To add to this, reports can be shared easily, allowing teams to get live reports, showing the last 24 hours every time, someone opens the link right through a shared URL.
That’s just one benefit of using the newly designed reporting engine. The real question is, have you tried Report Builder yet?
Veeam ONE captures a vast and detailed view of the backup environment, but its real value lies in turning that data into actionable insights. The Report Builder provides a mechanism to merge data generated by separate custom reports into a single document. Teams can select sections from saved reports and combine them to curate audience-specific, purpose-built reports for executive reviews, compliance validation or operational analysis.
Let’s look at how this can be done.
This is just one example of how you can use Report Builder. Some others would be combining reports such as Protected Cloud Instances, Protected Computers, Protected Files and Object storage, and Protected VMs to create a comprehensive report that shows Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) are being met across the environment. You could combine chargeback reports for financial advisors to help show the cost of running certain application workloads. The possibilities are endless, with all this being accessible through the user interface and automatically scheduled to be delivered to a report folder or sent to your email.
The Report Builder provides a mechanism to provide comprehensive data points into a single document. Through the reporting engine, you can configure reports to highlight the most critical data that matters to you, save and combine reports for easy accessibility. This transforms operational data into reports that matter to the business allowing teams to gain insight to reduce risk and ensure compliance.
Have you tried Report Builder yet? Let me know some of the ways you use it in the comments below. ⬇
