Microsoft Invest - General reporting concepts

This section of the Reporting Guide explains the concepts underlying our reporting system, such as:

• How our system handles dates and times in reporting data
• How to create more efficient report requests
• The types of data (dimensions and metrics) and the operations you can perform on them (filtering and grouping)
• The various delivery mechanisms for your data

In this section

• Dimensions, Metrics, Filtering, and Grouping - Learn how a report is run, so you can design your report requests efficiently.
• Transactional Reporting Options - Learn about the different ways to retrieve data from our systems.
• Dates and Times in Reporting - How our systems handle dates and times.
• Report Throttling - A description of how our system limits the number of report requests per member and per user.
• Impression Counting - A list of media types and look-back windows.