Executive Focus: Modern Reporting

• Organizational decision making relies on accurate reporting, which is a core IT mission.
• Modern reporting systems improve insight with interactive visualizations across multiple sources and data types with advanced analytics and machine learning.
• The bulk of Microsoft’s investment is in Power BI, while SQL Server Reporting Services has largely stagnated.

 

Timely, accurate reports covering all aspects of business and IT performance are critical for decision making; producing such reports is a core mission of IT.

 

Reporting has evolved significantly from the traditional tabular reports and Excel spreadsheets that many organizations use to guide decision making. Modern reporting takes advantage of many new technologies and trends, such as:

 

• Aggregating data from multiple data sources including line-of-business applications, data warehouses, and logging systems
• Combining new and different data types, such as social media posts, IoT sensor status, and external