Manual reporting is expensive, not to mention frustrating. It can cost a typical company $79K per year and that’s conservative, IMHO. For other companies, it can cost much much more. Check our infographic on the cost of manual reporting and see if you can relate.

By Josh James, Founder & CEO

Thursday, April 5, 2012

Are You Still Using Spreadsheets? (Unfortunately, You’re Not Alone.)

I loved this recent post on The Data Doghouse, which underscores why “spreadsheets from hell” are still the most pervasive BI tool for business users. Last year’s TDWI study on Visual Reporting agrees. That survey found that nearly two-thirds of BI users are

By Shawn Dickerson, Director of Marketing

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Data Sausage: Do you really want to know how it’s made?

I dig summer. To me, summer means grilling and baseball, and believe it or not, I am going to tie those together about how we talk data in business. One summer day in the early 1980’s, with Africa’s “Toto” emanating from the Audiovox stereo in the family room, I made the mistake of

By Dan Roden, Director of Marketing Experience

Thursday, September 15, 2011

The First 90 Days

The first 90 days. We all focus on this chunk of time in different ways, but the end is always the same. We judge ourselves against this measure of time – how we are doing in a new job, how the semester went, how did the diet go, how did the fiscal quarter end

By Marianne Meagher, Federal Sales Manager

Friday, September 9, 2011

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