Look at what you can do with these 4 excel reporting tools

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Published June 5, 2017   |   

Excel is a little like a bicycle: it’s useful enough, for short jaunts, but it’s flawed start becoming obvious when tackling any large endeavors or when trying to bring anyone along for the journey. It’s a great program, but it simply wasn’t designed for the kind of large-scale, collaborative efforts that business requires these days. To enable projects like those, you need a more robust platform, with features and capabilities that Excel lacks.
So, if you’ve found recently that the bicycle just isn’t taking you where you want to go, here are a few vehicles that should help you reach your destination more swiftly.

InetSoft

Started in 1996, InetSoft offers award-winning web-based business intelligence. It features an open architecture, making it incredibly versatile and easy to adapt to your needs. While not as flashy as some other solutions, it offers a great degree of sophistication in its features, including advanced visuals and interactive dashboards.

Domo

Domo is a cloud-based solution that helps you put all your data in one place. The first things you’re bound to notice about Domo are the visual appeal, and the smoothness of the user interface, but they won’t be the last features you’ll notice. Domo’s APIs make it easy to pull your data from wherever it is and put it together on their cloud-based structure, making it accessible to everyone in your organization. It has a robust computing engine at its core, and with an extensive suite of features, it’s a good option for anyone looking for an all-in-one solution.

Sisense

Sisense does what many other BI solutions don’t: it offers both on-premise and cloud-based solutions for data. The on-premise solution is still web-based, opening up the option of hosting a private cloud, which makes data both secure and accessible. It’s designed to work well with very large datasets and performs well even when pulling large queries. And it’s Elasticube feature makes it possible to take data snapshots. Combine that with well-designed dashboards, and you have a well-rounded BI solution.

Grow

Grow is a cloud-based enterprise solution that boasts lower costs than most. Perhaps more important than that, though, is their implementation speed. They promise to get you up and running in record time. What’s more, Grow offers a white label option, for those who need to share functionality with their clients. With one of the easiest systems to use, Grow is a solution that is not to be ignored.
Whether you’re looking for a cloud-based solution, or you’re in need of something on-site, there are several tools that will outperform even the best features of Excel. With more adaptable and easier to use solutions available, there’s almost no excuse to be settling for a static, non-collaborative program anymore. So, do some research; you’ll find that the answer to your data and reporting problems are just a few clicks away.