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Reporting - Have we lost the plot?
•“the industry has applied querying tools to mainframes, report generators to departmental processing in the finance department, and functionally rich spreadsheets… As a result, it is no wonder that reporting in many organisations is fractured, slow and unreliable. Somewhere in this transition from primitive end user reporting through to sophisticated ‘slicing and dicing’ we have lost the plot! For example, we can produce any number of complicated colour graphics from our spreadsheet with the click of a couple of buttons but we cannot produce that vital profit and loss account for a week without an army of spreadsheet jockeys.”             Gary Simon
•                                                                                   Deloitte & Touche
• Financial Systems News
Quite usefeul to hand out the Gary Simon report while doing this presentation.
It’s often quite effective to quote some other good points from it.