Look for a sample of these reports.

Analyze the purpose and differences of these

technical reports:
Routine Report:
● Purpose: To provide reports regularly on ongoing activities, operations, or
processes in an organization
● Differences: Routine reports tend to be issued daily or weekly and are less
thorough than other reports.

Annual Report:
● Purpose: It serves a purpose that provides the summary of data and analysis of a
company’s financial and achievements over the past year.
● Differences: Often comprehensive, which includes financial statements,
management discussions, and analyses of the organization's performance.

Preliminary Report:
● Purpose: This is initially prepared by the title company before a more
comprehensive report is developed that presents initial findings, data, or ideas.
● Differences: It is not as polished as final reports and may contain provisional data
or recommendations

Feasibility Report:
● Purpose: To assess the practicality and viability of a proposed project or business
endeavor. This is composed of an assessment of a proposed project or business
endeavor in terms of practicality and viability.
● Differences: It provides broad data based on technical, financial, and operator
factors as to whether to pursue a project.

Progress Report:
● Purpose: This provides stakeholders with updated information on the status of
current projects.
● Differences: Technically it concentrates on monitoring the progress of particular
projects, highlighting achievements, challenges, and upcoming milestones.

Final Report:
● Purpose: To summarize a project's outcomes, findings, and recommendations in
a thorough manner.
● Differences: It is more extensive and detailed compared to progress reports, and
it often marks the conclusion of a project.
Operation Report:
● Purpose: To document and evaluate the performance of operational processes or
systems. It presents documents and evaluations regarding the performance of
operational processes or systems.
● Differences: deals with ongoing processes and may contain information on
efficiency, productivity, and prospective areas for development.

Proposals:
● Purpose: To present a plan or idea and request approval or funding for a project
or initiative.
● Differences: Basically, proposals focus on coming up with an idea that would
support the goal of favoring innovation.

Memorandum Report:
● Purpose: Often to inform within an organization related to a call of action or
persuasion.
● Differences: These are usually shorter in reports and include internal documents
used for communication within a company.

Letter Report:
● Purpose: To convey information, analysis, or recommendations in a letter format.
● Differences: It is considered to be very concise and similar to formal letters while
still containing technical content.

Incident Report:
● Purpose: Used to report an incident with an analysis and documents.
● Differences: It details the occurrence of the incident and then provides a report in
order to prevent or improve that action.

Field Report:
● Purpose: To gather information or data during fieldwork, research, or site visits.
● Differences: It is typically particular when it comes to collecting data in an
external environment and often includes observations, measurements, and
analysis.

Project Completion Report:

● Purpose: To provide a summary of the outcomes and achievements, specifically
a project upon its completion.
 ● Differences: Project completion reports highlight the project's goals, results, and
any lessons learned. It primarily intends to report the outcome of the project,
whether it turns out as expected or not.

Inspection Report:
● Purpose: From the word “inspect” to inspect the condition, quality, or compliance
of products, services, or facilities.
● Differences: It describes the inspection procedure in detail as well as the findings
and any non-compliance issues or recommendations for improvement or
accuracy.

IT Report:
● Purpose: To document and analyze information technology-related matters, such
as system performance, security, or software updates.
● Differences: What sets this report apart is that it often provides technical reports
on IT infrastructure, including problems, solutions, and recommendations for
improvement.