Abstract: A price analyzing system (200) for monitoring price changes of materials purchased by an enterprise. The system is employed in a three-tier structure of client computers (101), an application server (102) and a database server (103). The system includes: an information receiving module (201) for receiving information provided by users, the information including a specified time period; a data retrieving module (202) for retrieving price data corresponding to the time period, the retrieved price data including invoice prices, the invoice prices defining a highest price and a lowest price; a Cartesian graph generating module (203) for generating a time-price Cartesian graph by setting an X-axis based on the time period and setting a Y-axis based on the highest price and the lowest price; and a price displaying module (204) for plotting the retrieved price data in the time-price Cartesian graph. A related price analyzing method is also disclosed.

Abstract: A system and method for generating reports from a website program residing in a web server (30). The system comprises: a data collection module (41) that periodically gathers data to update a database (51); a user interface module (42) that manages users' requests, said user requests including requests for logon and requests for reports; a data service module (43) that retrieves from the database data requested for generation of reports; and a report generation module (44) that encapsulates instances of requests for reports and instantiates said instances to generate reports based on data supplied by the data service module in accordance with requests for reports. Users can access the system through web browsers to request required reports. One example of such reports is reports containing financial data.