The New Era of Business Software and Reporting
When you hear the word business software and reporting You might think of binders filled with spreadsheets, charts and footnotes. Or perhaps conference rooms stuffed with executives slogging through slide presentations. However, that’s changing thanks to the co-operation of multiple digital technologies. Machine learning and cognitive technologies will handle the mundane task of gathering information, generating reports, and then dispersing them. This will free human workers to take on more exciting tasks.
The winners of the coming years will redefine what it means to be an enterprise that is product-driven in its truest sense of the word. They’ll utilize their products to drive customer acquisition, retention and expansion. They’ll integrate PLG into the process of designing, developing and providing their products.
At Metso for instance, centralizing reporting on Quickbase new era of business software and reporting allowed them to access all of their critical information such as ERP and inventory data, etc. Monitoring the progress of a high-priority order and tracking the progression of orders. They saved more than $1 million annually using the solution. With the right business analytics platform, you can streamline your processes, increase efficiency and make better business decisions with current and accurate data. The most important thing is to make sure that the reporting and analytics platform will be of value to customers not a burden. PLG is about this.