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This week we discuss the current state of management reporting and how it has moved on over the past decade or so.

The world has moved on from flat, static reports in SQL Reporting Services and self-service reporting is becoming easier, but what about the perception of self service?  We often see that senior executives see self service as difficult and time-consuming, which with modern tools such as Power BI or Tableau, it needn't be.

The breadth of what is required has grown too - from financials to sales and inventory and broader information from social media and other external data sources.

Finally the questions being asked of the data have become more mature - moving from simply what happened to why it happened and what will happen.

As a result, management reporting is turning into more of an application that a traditional report - from a read only report, we are writing back narratives and context.  This comes with its own data management challenges and businesses need to start asking how long that keeps having business value.

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