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Any chance you could expand on some of those pains? Is the problem with simply sharing the data itself or with being able to slice/dice/query/do smth with the s

• kfk 11y ago
  Well, what do you want to know? I have many horror stories, actually, I just had 1 today - it took me half day to upload 6 Income Statements (6 spreadsheets) to our Company official tool (HFM). This should take no more than a couple of minutes. Other story? Try to run an Opex (Operating Expenses) budget when you need engineering, cus service, mantainance, etc., departments to all give you costs estimates and then try to track those costs (BPC is one other terrible tool that is supposed to help you with this kind of need). I am talking +500 cost centers each one split in cost types, each cost type split in natural accounts. Getting data and dealing with data in those cases can be a nightmare. But you are right, there is a reporting part too to it. It's just that I think the sharing and data handling piece is the real key. There are many decent reporting solutions out there, none that integrates a serious data sharing/integration solution (I am also referring to data feeds from other systems, other painful topic). One other big topic is integration, companies do not know what an API is, so getting data out of systems usually requires jumping through different hoops of terrible UIs and button clicking. But hey, if the topic sounds interesting for you and/or others, feel free to send me an email.