Report writers turn out to be an initial low cost option but bring higher ongoing cost. They are basically developer / programmer oriented tools, not meant for end users. So, expensive consultants and IT / technical resources are needed regularly with new requirements popping up everyday, thus overburdening the IT department. The output reports produced are traditional, inflexible, non-interactive and tightly coupled with existing enterprise applications and data structures. Also, there are no immediate results, as Management reports and Ad Hoc Analysis are obtainable after days and weeks of development, testing and deployment cycles, thus adversely affecting the whole decision-making process by slowing it down.

Report writers lag far behind Business Intelligence (BI) solutions; they can only produce simple reports which are mere presentation of your data, not the intelligence, and lack interactivity. They are not capable of deriving intelligence out of your data and cannot contribute to strategic initiative of Corporate Performance Management (CPM).

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