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•What the market wants
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•Prompt Automated Reporting
•Integrated Reporting - Actual, Budget etc
•Precise Variance Analysis
•Flexible Formatting
•Automated Maintenance
•Transaction Detail
•Enterprise-wide distribution, security etc
•Reporting from multiple systems and companies
•Intuitive reporting
•Corporate information - financial & non-financial
• “…. One Solution”
Management Reporting – The Issues
Re-arrange the order of the list.

As intro – take a step back to explain why we do what we do, what our view of the market is. The slides represents some of the extensive research done by us and others, as well as extensive client experience. This is what the market wants in an ‘ideal’ world and we then go on to what they actually get.

Include quotes from clients to bring to life?
Ask client which is most pressing for them and then link to case study relating to that point.

Introduce / Conclude with what Reporting actually is or what all the above amounts to ie: It is the ‘whole process by which a company communicates it’s objectives and assesses performance against those objectives on an enterprise wide basis.’

Conclude with: ‘in essence finance drive the company’
Reactive reporting gives way to flexible, proactive, dynamic etc reporting

Intuitive reporting – makes it clear that finance can easily own the software and will not have to rely on IT.

Analyst vs. Olap
Prompt reporting v
Enterprise wide dist – paper, web, excel, entire workbooks, datamarts (offline reporting).