The New Era of Business Software and Reporting

When you hear the word Business software and Reporting You may be thinking of binders packed with spreadsheets, charts and footnotes. Perhaps conference rooms filled with executives slogging through slides. However, that’s changing thanks to the collaboration of many digital technologies. Cognitive and machine learning technologies will take care of the gruntwork of gathering data, making reports, and then dispersing them. This will free up human workers to do more exciting tasks.

The winners of the coming years will redefine what it means to be an enterprise driven by product in the true sense of the word. They will use their products to increase expansion, retention, and acquisition of their customers. They’ll also incorporate PLG into their product design development, delivery and development processes.

Metso for instance, utilised Quickbase’s centralized reporting to gather all the vital data for ERP inventory data, ERP etc. – and to track progress on orders with high priority. They were able to save more than $1 million annually using the software. With the right reporting and analytics platform, you can streamline your processes, increase productivity and make better decisions based on current and accurate information. The most important thing is to make sure that the analytics and reporting platform is a value-add for the end users not an added burden. This like this case study, data room usage led to increased efficiency is what PLG is all about.