Service
Data, Reporting & Business Intelligence
One set of numbers everyone can agree on.
Typical timeline
A first dashboard against clean sources is usually 3 to 6 weeks.
Overview
Where this service fits
Reporting systems that bring business information together and present it in a form that management and operational teams can actually use.
Scope
What we build
Concrete examples of what this service produces, drawn from the kinds of projects we actually take on.
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Management and operational dashboards
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Scheduled and on-demand reports
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Data consolidation from multiple business systems
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KPI and performance-tracking tools
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Custom analytics and reporting interfaces
Signals
Common reasons companies call us
- Management reporting depends on manually combining spreadsheets
- Different departments are working from different versions of the same information
- Existing software stores useful data but does not present it clearly
- The business needs repeatable reporting instead of one-off analysis
How the work is approached
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Identify the decisions the report is intended to support
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Confirm source systems, definitions, and data quality
- 3
Build a dependable data model and reporting layer
- 4
Validate the numbers with the people who use the information operationally
Deliverables
What you actually receive
A project should end with things you can point at, not just a login and a hope that it keeps working.
- An agreed written definition for every metric on the dashboard
- Live dashboards plus scheduled exports for the people who prefer a file
- A data model documented well enough for another developer to extend
- Validation notes showing the numbers were checked against source systems
Typical timeline
A first dashboard against clean sources is usually 3 to 6 weeks.
Every quote states its own schedule. This is a planning range, not a promise made before we have seen your requirements.
Questions about this service
Our data is messy. Is that a problem?
It is common and it is workable. Part of the early phase is finding where records conflict and agreeing which system is authoritative for each field.
Can it pull from more than one system?
Yes. Consolidating several sources into one consistent view is the most common reason companies ask for this work.
Related technologies
Tools we may use for this type of project
Discuss a data & reporting project
Tell us about the existing process, system, users, and the change you are considering. We will tell you what it would take.