A comprehensive list of standard reports, both configuration and activity-based reports, will provide operators with the means to quickly re-visit the system’s activity.

Activity reports include, among others:

• Card activity
• Cardholder and cardholder group activity
• Door and area activity
• Elevator activity
• Zone activity
• Visitor activity
• Alarm activity

Configuration reports include, among others:

• List of hardware units and selected configuration options
• List of credentials
• List of cardholders
• List of visitors
• List of cardholders with access to an area, or elevator, or door
• Troubleshooting reports

Special reports include, among others:

• Area presence (list of cardholders present in an area)
• Audit trails
• Time and attendance
• Incidents
• System health

Synergis makes report generation simple and easy to use. An operator has several options for creating a report, including manually through the surveillance interface (single-click or right-click) or via scheduled tasks. Reports can also be generated through Synergis WebTools thin client, thereby avoiding any software installation for reporting activities. Additionally, all report columns are user-selectable. You have the freedom to create a virtually unlimited number of the same type of report and display or hide columns depending on who your target audience will be.

The reporting interface within the client application is actually live. It can be used to review activity in the system and playback events. Simply drag-and-drop an event from the events list into one or more display tiles to view the event and playback any video attached to it. Synergis’ report preview functionality also ensures that you export and print in exactly the format that you require.

The Synergis reporting engine is fully integrated in the video surveillance client application and the WebTools thin clients. Operators are not dependent on any external reporting tool, thus avoiding the need to export and re-import when developing new custom reports with third-party reporting tools. An operator’s efficiency is improved as the configuration and viewing of reports are found within the same interface.

Report filtering in Synergis is highly flexible and granular which enables security personnel to retrieve the right data at the right time; this greatly improves the security department’s productivity. Operators also have the flexibility to run reports on groups of entities, such as areas or cardholder groups, or individual components such as a card or a specific door. Furthermore, each type of report has its own filtering options based on the context. For example, in a cardholder activity report, you can filter based on specific doors, areas, elevators, credentials, cardholders, custom fields, events, and event timestamps.

Flexible filtering options enable operators to run a report by selecting:

• A specific door, area, elevator, zone, cardholder, or card
• A specific time or time interval
• One or more custom fields
• One or more events (access granted, access denied, door forced) on which to run a reportA specific door, area, elevator, zone, cardholder, or card

All standard reports can be easily customized and saved as report templates. Report templates essentially give you the potential to create company-specific reports that are customized to your exact needs. These templates can then be re-used for scheduling automated tasks.

Scheduled tasks further facilitate reporting; security departments have the freedom to automate reporting to ensure data is consolidated and ready for viewing in a timely manner without necessitating operator intervention. This essentially eliminates the possibility that a report does not get sent out on time.

Synergis reports can be either sent to a printer or saved (exported) as PDF or Microsoft Excel files. The latter allows security departments to export Synergis activity and configuration reports to third-party systems such as a time and attendance or payroll system. Simply put, the reporting function can be used to share information between the access control system and other customer applications.

Discover more advanced Synergis features by reading Synergis’ feature highlights.