Sawmill is a highly sophisticated and flexible analysis and reporting tool. It can read text log files from over 800 different sources and analyze their content. Once analyzed it can produce detailed and informative reports (graphs, pie charts, tables, alerts etc.) based on the data. Sawmill can also provide deductive reporting by the addition of computed columns which can be sorted/compared to look-up tables of external or independently provided data to produce realizable and actionable data. In this way Sawmill can extend its application and usefulness in the areas of true high value analytics and ‘business time’ applications.