Reporting

Companies and Organizations often struggle with reporting. 
   

Reports that are delivered out-of-the-box with many operational systems often do not meet the needs of users, prompting them to spend hours each week manually creating more useful reports from data pieced together from various sources.  Conversely, users may create their own independent reporting databases, creating multiple versions of the truth and creating confusion over whose information is correct. 
 

SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) and SQL Report Builder enable IT and business users alike to quickly create and deploy dynamic, interactive reports that can be personalized and run on-demand or scheduled for periodic delivery.  And with SharePoint, reports can be deployed directly to any document library on the SharePoint site, allowing users to access reports in the same place they go for collaboration, document storage, and workflow automation. 

B2B can design an engagement that will best satisfy your needs and requirements and work within your budget constraints.  Our engagement will be defined in part by answers to several questions.

Ø   Does your operational system give you the right reports to perform your job? 

Ø   Are you spending time each day or week manually creating reports in Excel?

Ø   How are reports distributed throughout your organization?

Ø   Should departments or users be allowed to personalize their reports?

Ø   Do your power users have any ad-hoc reporting needs?

The reporting needs of an organization can be astounding.  B2B can help manage reporting needs for you.  In a reporting-focused engagement, B2B consultants can build the foundation and offer customized training sessions to allow your team to take ownership of reports development.  Or B2B can build reports for you, tackling your most complex reporting needs. 

Enterprise Reporting

B2B Consultants can start small, with reports for just a single department.  Or we can take a strategic view of your entire organization’s reporting needs and develop a strategy that starts with a strong foundation.  Because of the scalability of the Microsoft BI platform including SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), reporting projects can start small and grow over time.  B2B brings reporting best practices knowledge to your organization, helping you to standardize reporting to make it more efficient and effective.

Ad-Hoc Reporting

Microsoft’s suite of easy-to-use reporting tools, including Performance Point, Report Builder, and Excel Services, puts data in the hands of analysts and power users and requires minimal oversight by IT.  B2B can help setup those environments by creating secured data views for these users to ensure they see the right information and only the right information.  B2B also offers training that communicates best practices for report-creation and distribution.