Ad Hoc Reporting
As the volume of data grows, so does its role in business decision-making. But for organizations to truly harness data’s value at any given moment, it must be easily accessible, accurate and up-to-date. Only then will decision-makers be able to fully trust reports and analyses and intuitively understand the story being told by their data.
Ad hoc, or “as needed,” reporting and analysis tools can empower all employees - from non-technical leaders to professional data analysts. All kinds of ad-hoc reports and ad hoc reporting tools are often needed to build these kinds of customized reports.
That’s where
Database To Dashboard comes in.
Database To Dashboard has the capacity to Balance Enterprise System Actual with Planning System Budget and Forecast as well as instantly output ad hoc data analysis for ideas and planning required in the moment.
This provides all users company-wide, with the ability to access key organizational insights (at their business intelligence-approved level) so they can answer business questions on the spot and make proactive, well-informed decisions.
What Is An Ad-Hoc Report?
Ad hoc reporting is a business intelligence process used to quickly create reports on an as-needed basis. Ad hoc reports are generally created for one-time use to find the answer to a specific business question, such as how many support tickets were resolved last week or how many calls a salesperson made yesterday. But what if you wanted to compare sales performance across a range of data locations?
Can your current system manage and output an
adhoc report
instantly using multiple sources of data? A Database To Dashboard solution can be built for you from the ground up and customized for the structure and operation of your enterprise-level company.
Ad hoc reports usually present information in a visual format that makes it easy to garner insights on the fly. With Database To Dashboard, anyone with the appropriate access is capable of building reports from scratch, regardless of data expertise, circumventing the need to wait for standard analysis from IT or data analyst teams.
What Is Ad-Hoc Analysis?
Ad hoc financial analysis is the process of using ad hoc reporting to identify patterns or trends in data. It is a data-driven approach that allows users to unearth insights quickly in their data.
The problem that Database To Dashboard solves is how to bring all your data into one place.
While other forms of
corporate financial planning help answer an overall question of what’s going on in an organization, ad hoc analysis helps go a step deeper to answer why something is happening. This is because ad hoc analysis let’s users continually dig deeper into their data, answering questions and using those answers to fuel the next question. This helps answer questions such as what factors are driving product sales or why customer satisfaction has declined.
Ad hoc analysis typically begins with a business user needing information to make a decision. With more traditional, legacy analytics solutions, this request then is sent to a data professional, who creates an ad hoc report. Depending on SLAs and the queue of additional requests, these reports can take up to a week or longer to be answered.
By leveraging a self-service analytics solution like Database To Dashboard, however, business users can answer their own questions and explore their data through ad hoc analysis. This frees up data teams and managers to focus on building the right data foundation, ensuring effective data governance, and investing in data modeling to unlock new use cases.
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