{"id":8944,"date":"2015-03-09T15:04:39","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T20:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/?p=8944"},"modified":"2015-03-09T16:26:31","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T21:26:31","slug":"how-to-automate-reporting-and-say-goodbye-to-excel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/how-to-automate-reporting-and-say-goodbye-to-excel\/","title":{"rendered":"How to automate reporting (and say goodbye to Excel)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-725\" alt=\"Education\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Education.jpg\" width=\"76\" height=\"100\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>Summary: The process of taking data out of an enterprise system and turning it into meaningful management information is a challenge for many businesses. It usually requires Excel, and hours of manual work. Would you like to automate that process, and eliminate the clunky Excel reporting once and for all? Learn how one company fixed this very problem. <\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<a name=\"20150306\"><\/a><!--more--><br \/>\nLet me ask you a question: How quickly can you pull data out of your system? How quickly can you turn data into meaningful management information?<\/p>\n<p>Minutes? Hours? Days?<\/p>\n<p>For many businesses, it\u2019s a complicated process that involves Excel. Their enterprise systems don\u2019t offer adequate reporting. To turn their data into meaningful management information, they must:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"arrow-list colored\">\n<li>Export data to Excel,<\/li>\n<li>manipulate the data in Excel,<\/li>\n<li>create reports and graphs using the data, and<\/li>\n<li>email their spreadsheet to those who need the reports.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This process takes hours or days depending on the data. The worst part: You must repeat it every time you need a report. I\u2019ve seen companies where an employee spends half of their time on this process.<\/p>\n<p>Then, what happens when someone shares that spreadsheet? What if that person then alters the spreadsheet and shares it with someone else? Now you have multiple spreadsheet versions floating around. How do you know which one is accurate?<\/p>\n<p>Wouldn\u2019t you rather automate that process? Wouldn\u2019t you rather have the reports you need at the push of a button? <\/p>\n<p>Just imagine how that would help your company. No more waiting around for reports. No more clunky, time-consuming reporting processes. No more spreadsheets!<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s the answer?  Here\u2019s a great story about a company that was facing this very question. What did they do? They found a way to deliver real-time reports directly to their users, all without spreadsheets! To learn more, you can <a onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Blog', 'Inside Link', 'Philip Dennis']); \" href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/customers\/philipdennis.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: red;font-weight: bold\">read the whole story here<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: The process of taking data out of an enterprise system and turning it into meaningful management information is a challenge for many businesses. It usually requires Excel, and hours of manual work. Would you like to automate that process, and eliminate the clunky Excel reporting once and for all? Learn how one company fixed &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/how-to-automate-reporting-and-say-goodbye-to-excel\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to automate reporting (and say goodbye to Excel)<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","slim_seo":{"title":"How to automate reporting (and say goodbye to Excel) - mrc&#039;s Cup of Joe Blog","description":"Summary: The process of taking data out of an enterprise system and turning it into meaningful management information is a challenge for many businesses. 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