E-Tabs Automated Reporting and Databases

E-Tabs Publishes New Article Highlighting Benefits of Automated Reporting - May 2012

In our fast paced world, there never seems to be enough time to get everything done before the workday ends.  Market Research firms suffer from this time crunch more acutely than most other industries. Your clients, whose business strategies and marketing decisions rely on the data generated by your firm, seem to demand increasingly faster turnaround times on reports and projects.  That is why chart automation and automated reporting software are becoming increasingly more essential to your business success. 

Here are five benefits that report automation can bring to your MR firm:

1. Reduce time-consuming, manual tasks

No matter how skilled your employees, it takes a great deal of time and patience to enter data and run reports. This time can most certainly be used more effectively within your organization while the chart automation software enables you to complete such tasks as updating your reports by wave, region or brand in a matter of seconds. 

2. Improve Accuracy

Report automation eliminates repetitive and error-prone tasks such as manual data entry ensuring pinpoint data accuracy, saving time both in running and checking reports.

3. Add creativity and analysis

MR Firms often have no spare time or staff available for flexibility, creativity or to add insight to projects.  Users of report automation software have utilized the time they saved with chart automation to add extra details, analysis and insights to their projects.

4. Manage heavy workloads and bring more business

Unpredictable workloads make it difficult to manage busy reporting periods efficiently.  Additionally, report turnaround is not always as fast as your clients would like it to be.  With automated charting, the money and time you save can allow you to not just keep your existing clients satisfied, but to also take on more business without adding additional resources.

5. Increase profit margins.

The right market research tools simplify your workload and allow you to expand your services.  Companies that utilize report automation software have proven time and again that technology can be leveraged to increase profit margins and improve efficiencies.  By automating your reporting, you are choosing to provide your clients with fast, accurate, visually arresting reports in a fraction of the time.  And we all know that there is no downside to satisfied customers.

About E-Tabs

Since 1993, E-Tabs’ portfolio of innovative market research tools has helped clients slash production costs and streamline essential MR reporting processes.

• Their award-winning ‘Enterprise’ report automation solution enables the user to populate PowerPoint, Word and Excel reports directly from data tables.
• E-Tabs’ ‘Dashboard’ product was especially designed to deal with the complexities of MR data and displays results in one of the company’s dynamic business dashboards.
• The outsourced ‘Bureau Service’ is endorsed by leading MR companies who want fast and accurate results for their automated reporting needs.
• The company’s revolutionary automated table-checking solution, ‘Verify’, checks frequencies, percentages, hole counts, bases, means, standard deviations and more in mere minutes while also highlighting suspicious results and pinpointing errors.