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It's Time for Smarter Reporting.
Spend less time hunting and gathering data, and more time analyzing it.

With IT backlogs creating unacceptable delays and extensive BI systems overhauls out of reach for most departments, business people - especially analysts - turn to Microsoft® Excel and other desktop software solutions in which they are proficient. While more flexible, spreadsheets have a way of growing, evolving into a collection of customized and often inconsistent views of the business. Over time, these "spreadmarts" represent a significant productivity drain, requiring constant upkeep to gather and import data from disparate sources. Rather than analyzing data, analysts are spending too much time simply collecting and messaging the data. More significantly, these spreadmarts or "data shadow systems" often contain inconsistent or inaccurate data, resulting in faulty decisions and errors.

This webcast will examine affordable ways for turning spreadmarts into actionable information that is consistent, accurate, and up-to-date.

Join Richard Sherman, Founder of Athena IT Solutions, Sybase, and MicroStrategy to learn how you can:

• End the productivity drain caused by manually importing operational data into spreadsheets
• Reduce the risk of inconsistent reporting and analysis across multiple spreadsheets
• Turn Microsoft Excel into a live repository of scorecards, reports, charts, PivotTables and PivotCharts-all linked automatically to current data
• Reduce the time it takes to consolidate data from multiple sources without excessive support from IT
• See how easy it is to build a trusted data store with Sybase IQ, and eliminate the complexity of indexes, cubes, and summary tables

  Isn't it time to evolve from hunter-gatherer? Get business intelligence data directly to your Microsoft Office applications and other reporting tools. It's time for smarter reporting.