How many reports does it take to make a decision?
With your current reporting system.....does the aggregation process take hours, if not days to complete with the ongoing challenge of generating the reports your business needs in order to make accurate and efficient decisions?
If the answer is yes, make leveraging analytics to gain a competitive advantage and improve business decision-making a top priority for your business in 2010.
How do you rank your current business performance reporting capability?
- Are you able to easily get the reports that you need for your business?
- Do you find getting bespoke reports created easy?
- Do you have internal capability to write bespoke reports?
- Do you have consultants readily available with short lead in times?
- Are reporting consultants an inexpensive resource to bring in?
- Are your reports showing real-time up-to-date data?
- Do your reports give you all the analysis you need thus minimising the need to export the data to excel for further analysis or editing?
- Do your reports always come out in the correct format that your users want them in
- Do your reports always have the right data fields included?
- Do your reports run efficiently and thus don’t need to schedule them to run overnight
- Do your reports give you all the meaningful business information you need in a single report?
- Can you easily distribute (automatically) your reports around the business on a regular basis?
- Can you easily consolidate your reports from all your business systems easily?
- Can you easily provide the reports in different formats for different people – tables or graphs or charts?
- Do you use your reports for monitoring your business KPIs?
Does your current solution provide you with all your reporting requirements?
If you can answer "No" to any of the above questions, and you are becoming increasingly frustrated with the number of reports you need to create to make a decision, take a look at the menu bar on the right-hand side to see a compelling reason for change...