The New Era of Business Software and Reporting

When you hear the words Business software and Reporting Images of binders packed with charts, spreadsheets and footnotes may come to the mind. Or maybe conference rooms are filled with executives who are slogging through slide presentations. But that’s changing due to the interplay of many digital technologies. Machine learning new era of business software and reporting and cognitive tools will take care of a lot of the grunt task of collecting data, making reports and disseminating them freeing humans to focus on more interesting tasks.

The winners in the new era will redefine what is an organization that is driven by products in the true sense of the word. They will use their products to drive growth, retention and acquisition of their customers. They’ll also incorporate PLG into the process of designing, developing and the delivery of their products.

Metso for instance, made use of the centralized reporting feature of Quickbase to capture all the important data they needed such as ERP and Inventory Data etc. – and to track the progress of high-priority orders. The solution helped them save more than $1 million each year. You can streamline your company operations, improve productivity, and make better decisions using up-to-date and accurate data with the right reporting platform. The most important thing is to make sure that the analytics and reporting platform will be of value to end users, not an added burden. That’s what PLG is all about.