Why Excel Prep Still Breaks Reports Excel is the world’s most-used business tool—over 1 billion people rely on it. But here’s the problem: most of that work is still manual. And when humans touch data too much, mistakes creep in. According to one audit, 94% of business-critical spreadsheets contain errors. Read more…
Manual Reporting: The Tax Nobody Talks About Most companies budget for salaries, tools, and infrastructure. But few account for the silent cost of manual reporting. Every time your team exports data, pastes it into Excel, cleans it, and emails a “final” version, you’re paying for work that adds no strategic Read more…
Manual Exports Are a 2005 Problem If you’re still running SQL queries, exporting CSVs, pasting into Excel, and emailing reports — you’re stuck in a 2005 workflow. Manual exports waste time, spread errors, and bury your analysts in busywork. Excel automation fixes this by connecting SQL Server directly to Excel, Read more…
Introduction: Pretty Dashboards, Ugly Truth Power BI looks amazing—slick dashboards, polished charts, “data-driven” insights. But here’s the ugly truth: if your data comes from messy spreadsheets fixed by hand, your dashboard might be lying. That’s why automation is essential when preprocessing your data, whether it is cleaning, transforming, and/or consolidating data. Without Read more…