Operational reporting is intended to support the day-to-day activities of the organization.
Examples of operational reporting include bank teller end-of-day window balancing reports, daily account audits and adjustments, daily production records, flight-by-flight traveler logs and transaction logs.
[2] Operational reporting is intended to provide a granular, real-time, view of the immediate situation.
This is distinct from analytical reporting, which is used for longer-term, predictive use-cases.
Operational reporting is repetitive, done frequently, and typically involves numerous simple manual steps.