Technology and Data
Reporting people use to make decisions
Dashboards, reports and analytics built around the decisions your teams actually make, in the tools they already use.
More reports, fewer answers
Plenty of organizations have dashboards nobody opens and reports that take a week to assemble. The reporting tool is rarely the problem. The problem is reporting built around whatever data happened to be available instead of the decisions people need to make, delivered somewhere outside their normal work, and refreshed too late to matter.
We start with the decision. Who needs to know what, and when, and what will they do differently once they know it? From there we design reporting for each role, keep it current, and put it where the work already happens. For one client, interactive reports embedded in their own production application turned reporting that once took weeks of spreadsheet work into something that runs at the touch of a button.
Analytics on a foundation you can trust
A dashboard is only as good as the data under it. We build analytics on validated, well-modeled data, so a number in a meeting ends the discussion rather than starting one. When a question goes beyond reporting into forecasting or prediction, the same foundation takes you there.
How the work runs
1Start with decisions
We interview the people who will use the reporting and list the decisions it needs to support.
2Check the foundation
We confirm the data behind each measure is complete, validated and defined the same way everywhere.
3Design by role
Each group gets reporting shaped to its own work, not one dashboard meant to serve everyone.
4Build and embed
We build in your reporting platform and put results where people already work, including inside your own applications.
5Adopt and refine
We watch how the reporting gets used and adjust it until it is part of how decisions get made.
What you leave with
A decision inventory and agreed definitions for each key measure
Role-based dashboards and reports
Analytics embedded in the applications your teams already use
Automated refresh from validated data
Training and documentation for the people who own the reports
Honest answers
Which BI tools do you work with?
We work with the platform you have, including Tableau and Power BI, and we will tell you honestly if the tool itself is the bottleneck.
Our reports do not match each other. Is that a BI problem?
Usually it is a data problem that shows up in BI. Different reports use different definitions or different sources. We fix the definitions and the data first, and the reports start agreeing.
How soon will we see something?
Early. We build in small increments and put working reports in front of the people who will use them as we go, so their feedback shapes the rest.
Turn your data into decisions
Show us the reports that take too long or that nobody trusts, and we will show you what better looks like.