When comparing the totals available in SAFEQ6 and Intuitive, you may notice some slight differences with how the totals have been calculated, filtered and displayed.
If we take a look at the SAFEQ6 Web Reports, you’ll notice that not all job types are shown on this page, as they exclude purge jobs from being shown. We also mimic this same behaviour, but other reports inside of SAFEQ6 may include purged jobs.
In the event that the Intuitive totals are much lower than SAFEQ6’s, there can be some caveats to that display. For example, when a job is logged inside of the SAFEQ6 database, it may duplicate itself behind the scenes after a period of time and not be excluded from the SAFEQ6 reports.
Whereas in Intuitive, we do exclude any duplicates from being shown onscreen. One way to prove this is to locate a user who has only performed one job outside of the last 90 days, and build a Web Report around them whilst also recording the job-level activity.
You should notice that the totals in some cases may double. Whereas if you find that job inside of Intuitive, we should show the original number of pages being printed.
Another area to consider is how you compare the report timeframes. When Intuitive refreshes, we view data on a rolling 12-24 month basis. Typically most of the dashboards look at data from the last 12 months unless stated otherwise. Meaning, when we view a rolling 12 month timeframe, it’s a rolling 12 months from the point of the last data refresh.
However, if you are comparing the SAFEQ reports, typically when you select a timeframe of one day to the next, the logic behind that selection is from the start of the day from your first date, to the end of the day on your end date. This means that a selection of the 1st to the 2nd of a single month is actually a selection of the 1st from 12am, to 11:59 pm on the 2nd.
With all that in mind, the key point to take away is that to effectively compare the Intuitive and SAFEQ6 statistics, you must present the two with the exact same conditions, akin to any other scientific analysis. If you present the two solutions with different starting environments you will end up with different results.
Additionally, in an Intuitive for SAFEQ6 installation, customers have the flexibility to also double A3 volumes. Reason being, is that if a single A3 page document is printed, it has a volume of ‘1’, for 1 A3 page. In some cases, some customers wish to double these volumes so that single A3 document if effectively understood as 2 A4 pages.
This would also have a knock-on effect with comparing the report totals, as the Intuitive totals would effectively double for A3 volumes vs what is currently displayed in SAFEQ6.