In general, enterprises may encounter the following problems
during data processing:
● Business data shot up yet few of them are used for
operation analysis and business control.
During informatization, enterprises witness an increasing amount
of applications and data. Although most companies hold the opinion that data is
a huge wealth, they don’t know how to use it. Most data is merely
accumulated together without effective data analysis and display, and very
little of it is used for making operation decisions, operation analysis and
business control.
● Business data is dispersed and difficult to
utilize.
In general, an enterprise has several business systems
(e.g., CRM, ERP, OA) which operate independently from each other. In this way,
business data is dispersed in different systems that are inquired separately
(if necessary), making it extremely hard to utilize. What’s worse,
such problems as multi-port collection, repeated entry, out-sync updating and
different structures greatly impact the consistency and accuracy of the data.
● Manual data processing results in a heavy workload,
low accuracy and poor security.
When management needs to inquire into comprehensive
cross-department and cross-system data, the business department has to manually
summarize and adjust it via excel, leading to a heavy workload, low
time-effectiveness and the increased probability of data error. In addition,
monthly and daily reports are made by month and by day separately, making it
inconvenient to prepare, maintain and view the data. Excel has a simple
authorization function and cannot guarantee data security, which may greatly
damage enterprise interests.
● Original reports fail to serve new businesses from
fast business adjustment.
When an enterprise adopts custom reports for business
analysis, the original reports may not meet the requirements of fast-growing
businesses. In this case, secondary development is generally required to adjust
the reporting system, causing large burdens on the final users and software
companies. Furthermore, the lack of linkage and comparisons among the reports
makes it difficult to conduct further comprehensive analysis.
● There is no uniform reporting management portal.
Although each business system has its own directory, there is
no a uniform portal in which the leadership can inquire or manage all reports
and allocate authorities.
● The report display is too simple and specific,
failing to give management a holistic view of all the information.
Generally, the built-in reports in the business system only
have basic data summary and display functions, but lack the rich visual display
and analysis of data, not to mention business forecasting and pre-warning in
support of multi-business applications. Therefore, it is difficult for the
management to grasp global information and make overall decisions.
● People on business trips cannot view reports
conveniently.
Today, the mobile office has became a trend. With mobile
terminals, management can make better use of their fragmented time and take
real-time control of the enterprise wherever they are. However, due to all
sorts of reasons, at least 80% of enterprise reports still depend on PC
terminals to be inquired and filled, greatly hindering management in grasping
the enterprise information and making timely business adjustments. Restricted
by the above problems, the decision making of management is still dependent on
experience due to the absence of accurate and effective information, bringing
adverse impacts to the management and operation of the enterprise.
FineReport reporting software provides solutions to tackle
all the aforementioned difficulties.
