Reporting & Analysis

Definition: To make or present an often official, formal, or regular account of.

Reporting is a critical aspect of Corporate Performance Management as well as corporate governance. All companies create and distribute reports for a multitude of purposes that generally tie back directly to the underlying business processes described to the right. These Reports take actual results from the source systems and compare them to the targets set during the planning phase.

Issues with Reporting:

Not interactive – generally static reports that are not “drillable” into the detail behind them
Rigid – reports are usually created for consumption across the entire enterprise in a “fixed-format”
Timeliness – Many companies spend so much time manually adjusting data that by the time reports are published, the information is no longer relevant
The book of reports is not integrated with the rest of the process!
Standard reports tell you something is wrong, but do not get into the detail of what exactly went wrong.

An example is a sales report for an individual region. A report might show total units sold or delivered for a certain time frame, as well as average price per item. However, they are not easily integrated into a lower level of detail that would assist the sales manager ie- units by customer vs. units forecasted by customer

leverages years of experience implementing integrated reporting applications that tie together your business and allow users the ability to “interact” with the data for timely business analysis and drive better business decisions.

Reporting & Analysis

Definition: To make or present an often official, formal, or regular account of.

Issues with Reporting:

Not interactive – generally static reports that are not “drillable” into the detail behind them

Rigid – reports are usually created for consumption across the entire enterprise in a “fixed-format”

Timeliness – Many companies spend so much time manually adjusting data that by the time reports are published, the information is no longer relevant

The book of reports is not integrated with the rest of the process!

Standard reports tell you something is wrong, but do not get into the detail of what exactly went wrong.

leverages years of experience implementing integrated reporting applications that tie together your business and allow users the ability to “interact” with the data for timely business analysis and drive better business decisions.