Comments on: Very often, it's the nickels and dimes that matter https://effectivedatabase.com/very-often-its-the-nickels-and-dimes-that-matter/ Making data management a revenue generator Tue, 28 Apr 2020 19:42:28 +0000 hourly 1 By: Wes Trochlil https://effectivedatabase.com/very-often-its-the-nickels-and-dimes-that-matter/#comment-1353 Mon, 30 Jun 2014 17:50:17 +0000 http://effectivedatabase.com/?p=4710#comment-1353 Hi Jeff,

Re: reporting, you’re right, it’s nigh impossible to create all reports for all clients. What’s most important is that the product has a tool that allows the end-user (at the desktop) create, at the least, queries that can be exported into Excel. Short of that, yes, giving them everything is better than restricting access.

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By: Jeff Burns https://effectivedatabase.com/very-often-its-the-nickels-and-dimes-that-matter/#comment-1352 Thu, 26 Jun 2014 15:04:08 +0000 http://effectivedatabase.com/?p=4710#comment-1352 Hey Wes – totally agree with you and users about making their job easier to do rather than finding a fancy way to solve a technology problem but making the actual workflow more difficult in the end.

I’m interested in your thoughts on reporting – one of the hardest things to do is to anticipate how users may want to visualize data in things like reports – so it’s difficult to create a one-size-fits-all set of reports. In your experience, is the preference to “just give me everything” and I’ll use some tool (Excel, Crystal, PowerPivot, etc) to come up with the report that I want? It’s definitely an easier approach if you have the technical experience…

Jef

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