Succeed with A Properly Architected Microsoft Excel Reporting System
You are awash in data. You have ad hoc reporting tools on every desk top. You have a list of canned reports a mile long to tap into. But you still have to put data into spreadsheets and analyze it to get to what we call the "actionable digest" -- the really important information that supports hard decisions at the departmental level. It's all a moving target, so Excel reports constructed locally are still essential.
When are you going to finally get a Business Intelligence process that produces the actionable digest quickly and easily? No budget for a huge development project? There's a way to make up for this.
Most firms tragically underutilize Microsoft Excel and as a result, tragically underutilize their analysts. There is a lost opportunity to increase the quantity and quality of reporting while lowering costs and building the right business intelligence model for departments, or even the enterprise.
The Dahlberg Business Logic, Inc. Business Intelligence Consulting Service focuses on helping analysts program a properly architected business intelligence reporting SYSTEM using Excel.
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Business Intelligence Consulting * Dahlberg Business Logic, Inc. * 952-237-3096 * tomdahlberg5000@aol.com
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Most Excel based reporting processes and systems are so poorly architected that they require substantial time and resources. The reporting becomes progressively disintegrated, or integrated in such a complicated manner that it incurs a very substantial cost to discover, validate, and document all of the threads. The meaning and validity of the source data, and how it is being transformed in the analysis models, may become increasingly obscure. A plethora of cross referenced reports starts losing track of what is upstream and downstream, and may even become circular. It seems like you are always starting over.
This mess is caused by not imposing an overall architecture on the way that Excel is used. Data categories, data points, chart objects, analysis proper, business rules, are all mixed up together in a witch's brew of redundancy, inconsistency, confusion, constant reconstruction, inflexibility, and complete dependence upon the analysts who created the reports.
We will help your analysts build the first working model of a more powerfully architected and automated process, transferring the knowledge of the architecture and the programming to the analysts. We can help with information (report) design as well.
Once the Excel databases are in place we can help you automate the flow of data from the original data sources to the Excel databases. And if you decide to rebuild the whole model in another environment, or build data warehouses based on the model, we can support those objectives as analysts and project managers, describing the step by step migration plan.
Who should be interested in this service? Analytics Managers, Reporting Managers, Business Analysts, BA Managers, Operations Analysts, Marketing Analysts, and Financial Analysts.
Call today to discuss your goals and request a statement of work.
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