Overview of Application Studio

An application is a collection of Infor EPM content that addresses a particular business requirement and which users deploy, configure, and use in Infor EPM services.

Reports are spreadsheets that contain lists of elements and associated values which are retrieved from data sources through data connections. But a report can also be, for example, a list of menu items, or a group of command buttons. By combining and linking such reports you can create interactive reporting applications that support a particular business function, such as financial planning.

Creating and defining a report are separate processes. You create and manage reports before you define them. That is, you can create, save, name, rename, copy, and move blank reports.

Defining a report is the process of populating it with data and specifying how that data is presented. You define reports by inserting list objects and other objects, slices, lists, actions, formulas, variables, charts etc,.

You download the Application Studio client and its associated connection profile from the Client Access dashboard in EPM Administration.

Many of the examples in this document are based on the database of the Samples application, which can be enabled in on-premises environments. The Samples application is not available in the Infor cloud but, for reference, a summary of the structure of the database is given.

This document is written from the perspective of an administrator with access to all the options and functions of Application Studio.