Reporting 2.0: The next evolutionary step in business reporting

Decision making is the critical wedge of any business. Accurate reports accelerate decisions and reporting is the primary tool used by over 80% of information consumers to support decision making. One perfectly generated report can reduce top decision making effort to nearly half of what is required.

Reports are predefined at the time of design and cannot be modified by users to suit business situations. The most common approach used to address this limitation, is to export the data associated with the user's information requests to a spreadsheet. While this provides users with the flexibility to get to the data they need, the workload shifts from the report designer to the end-user.

On-going updates of the data and its structure requires users to invest a significant portion of their time manipulating spreadsheet data to suit their information needs. This is where "Reporting 2.0" introduced by Synaptris comes in. The goal of Reporting 2.0 is to address the limitations of traditional reporting by providing end-users with the flexibility to not just manipulate and analyze reports but also create them with ease.

Providing the "reporting user" an Analysis/Business Intelligence (BI) solution is like providing users with airplane controls to drive a car! It is an over-engineered (and expensive!) solution that is and will be rejected by users who just need operational reporting.

Synaptris is the only focused information management solution provider to acknowledge that neither BI nor BI 2.0 is the logical upgrade path from reporting. An evolutionary upgrade to reporting, Reporting 2.0 has many advantages. Reports are designed at a fraction of the time taken for traditional reports. Users have real time access to information, embedded analysis, with no IT overhead. It is also very simple and easy to use.