Enable self-service reporting
Improving reporting is often the first step in the journey to performance management. Zap Business Intelligence enables you to:
Automate reporting and eliminate delays and backlogs
Is reporting in your organization confined to specialists? Relying on technical experts or analysts every time you need to modify or create a report can be expensive and cause delays. Reporting in Zap Business Intelligence puts the power to create reports in the hands of your business users. Users never touch code or rely on developers to create analytics. The solution goes well beyond the usual list and aggregate reports to include management reporting, which is usually done by multiple teams using multiple offline tools. Zap Business Intelligence provides a single, online platform for management reporting where you can create a report structure and have it automatically refreshed on open. Then all you need to do each reporting period is update the explanation and create a PDF. Teams can collaborate easily, even when they’re geographically distributed.
Free up staff to spend more time analyzing results and providing strategic advice
Creating manual reports is a routine job that adds little value. Sometimes it’s easy to get stuck in a reporting rut where the same reports are churned out every week or every month, but add little new insight. Zap Business Intelligence removes the chore of time-consuming, manual reporting, and frees your staff to undertake analysis that will actually impact business performance. You want to know your most profitable products, customers, and sales regions, so you know where to focus? You want to know the worst performing inventory items so you can trim your product lines? Ask the right questions and you can continually fine tune your business and get ahead of the competition.
Ensure accuracy and consistency in enterprise-wide reporting
If a report contains mistakes or is late, it can be dangerous for your business. If reporting is inconsistent across departments, geographies and companies, it’s often ineffective. Zap Business Intelligence lets you take full control of reporting to ensure it’s reliable, on time, and consistent. Reliability comes from ensuring that all reporting is done in a central location, always pulling the latest data from your business systems. Reliability can also be achieved by providing a foundation of your own company-specific calculations that can be used across any report, meaning that staff don’t have to try and create them from scratch. Consistency comes from the ability to easily standardize reporting and analytics across your entire enterprise – even when different business systems are used. Zap Business Intelligence contains unique business template capabilities that provide a unique approach to this common problem.