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# Analysis and reporting tools

This topic organizes the various analysis and reporting tools that ALM Octane provides.

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## Analysis tools

ALM Octane provides the following analysis tools:

Tools | Description
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Dashboards | In the Dashboard module, you can choose from tens of predefined widgets to display on your dashboard. All the widgets are fully configurable. You can also design your own widgets from scratch. ALM Octane provides several dashboard templates that contain a selection of widgets aimed at different personas. You can save the dashboards and share them with your team, or even outside ALM Octane. For details, see Use the Dashboard.
ALM Octane insights | ALM Octane's widgets provide insight cards that help you analyze trends, identify bottlenecks, find correlations, and detect anomalies in your development cycle. For details, see ALM Octane insights.
Quality risk analytics | ALM Octane's quality risk analytics helps you identify areas in your product with high quality risk. You can then reduce the risk in problematic application modules with the help of risk-based testing. For details, see Quality risk analytics.
Grid Timeline view | Available for features, epics, and release processes, ALM Octane's grid timeline view helps you gain increased visibility of a release or a release process by displaying different work item phases in a Gantt chart. For details, see: Analyze release progress and quality Release processes

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## Reporting tools

The following reporting tools are available in ALM Octane:

Tools | Description
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Document reports | With ALM Octane, you can generate document reports for multiple entities. You can customize the details displayed in the reports, and save them in Word and PDF formats. For details, see Document reports.
OData | With OData support, you can generate sophisticated reports that directly access ALM Octane entities to help with your analysis. For details, see OData support for extended reporting.
Export to Excel | You can export the following information: Grid data to Excel. For details, see Export data. Widget data and graphs. For details, see Export widget data and graphs.

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