Stop being an Excel addict - BI can be straightforward

How to break your Excel addiction...

Sometimes in relationships, there comes a time when you need to move on – you’ve grown, you have different needs, you’re not the same analyst you used to be – but you still want to be friends.

Firstly, your needs as a business will change over time and Excel may not always be the best technology

-         You need to extract data from multiple systems

-         You need to consolidate data

-         You need to share information and collaborate

-         You need to have security built around your BI

-         You need to be able to access back-end data to accelerate BI development and stop silos developing within the organisation

Secondly, if you do need to look at other solutions, then do your research

-         Some solutions have issues accessing and consolidating data from older applications – get the vendor to produce some free example reports on your data

-         Some solutions are piece-meal – you end up with different technologies for data extraction, processing and visualisation

-         Some solutions can get very expensive – they have a server cost, per user cost and different versions of each of them

-         Some solutions can take a long time to implement and be very costly

Thirdly, come and talk to us. We’ve helped a lot of businesses when they were ready to move on. We can make it simple and pain-free.

We can also help your business reap the benefits of implementing full Business Intelligence, reporting and analytics solutions. According to Nucleus Research that means a return of over ï¿¡10 for every ï¿¡1 spent.