Gain exclusive insights from Shawna Orlowski, Vice President at Bovitz, as she shares their transformative journey toward streamlining reporting with E-Tabs automation. Learn how Bovitz revolutionized their reporting workflows to benefit their clients, saving time, boosting accuracy and data insights whilst uncovering valuable lessons that continue to shape their market research approach.
Bovitz Back-story
Bovitz is a custom, full service, method agnostic, research and strategy agency that believes people and brands are on the same team.
Their philosophy is rooted in empathy and impact. They believe that succeeding in business means listening to real people, designing meaningful solutions, and embracing each brand’s unique identity. Whether shaping a brand perspective or exploring new directions.
Vice President Shawna Orlowski, who brings over two decades of market research experience, explained that with E-Tabs, Bovitz has finally found a partner that genuinely streamlines and elevates the reporting process.
“I’ve seen a lot of different iterations of companies who say they can do automation and automated reporting, but I’ve never actually seen it successfully done until now. “
Shawna Orlowski
Vice President, Bovitz
Why They Chose to Automate with E-Tabs
Shawna candidly shared that, based on frustrating past experiences, she was once a strong skeptic of auto charting and report automation. Having spent lots of time trying out various automation providers, she found their was a pattern of the automation either being severely inflexible, taking a long time to set up or that some simply just weren’t user friendly!
At Bovitz, their work is entirely custom and dynamic, so they needed a tool that could flexibly adapt to that approach. E-Tabs stood out as the only automation solution that effortlessly met their needs, addressing all their prior concerns.
“The automation is flexible, adaptable, and it is designed to handle nuances of custom research, it’s been a game changer since we started working with E-Tabs.”
Shawna Orlowski
Vice President, Bovitz
Bovitz Success Stories
Bovitz success stories and the ways that they have benefited from E-Tabs automation:
The Tracking Project:
Bovitz completes a continuous global tracking project for one of their clients, this occurs in seventeen cities in nine countries across four regions. The survey content and brands constantly vary, they are dynamic with many slides, not simple to automate.
Yet, they were able to work with E-Tabs to automate their set of standard slides which accommodated the various changing aspects. “Now we can output the slides right away, which has really sped up our deliverables.”
Not only can they develop their deliverables faster, but with fewer errors, less tedious work which equates to happier researchers!
“We estimate we’ve saved probably twenty five hours per quarter, so more than a hundred hours per year.”
Shawna Orlowski
Vice President, Bovitz
The Category Deck Study Challenge
Bovitz were faced with a study of fifteen separate category decks, each with twenty seven slides. This equaled over four hundred slides that needed to be populated. Bovitz reached out to the E-Tabs Bureau services team to program the report automation functionality.
The E-Tabs Bureau team provides an incredibly fast project turnaround so you can meet, or even improve your client deadlines every time. You will no longer need to spend time laboriously quality checking your reports for manual data entry errors. Report automation ensures 100% accuracy having pulled data straight from your source files to your final report. So, once this was completed, they could populate the fourteen other decks with the click of a button saving over a hundred hours of manual slide population.
With the slides, we were able to write perosnalised headlines and make them story driven, but the general set of slides was standard. this made the process simple and easy to use.
Winning Back Weekends
Another success story is based on a tracking project which requires a near immediate turnaround time from Bovitz . It contained weekly deliverables. Shawna explained how ‘there’s a top flight deliverable needed every morning.” There was a ton of data to input into the reports and it was requiring Bovitz team members to work every Sunday to get it ready in time for Monday morning! E-Tabs automation was a huge lifesaver for Bovitz as they estimated saving a mountain of weekend hours per year.
“Automating with E-Tabs turned hours of Sunday Labour into the push of a button. It’s saving a hundred and seventy plus weekend hours per year.”
Shawna Orlowski
Vice President, Bovitz
Key Benefits Seen From E-tabs Automation
Shawna explained that the for the projects automation works for, it really works! It has sped up and transformed the Bovitz reporting process in for specific areas:
Speed:
In terms of Speed, it has rapidly increased report turnaround times so that they can get to the good stuff, get to the analysis and deliver the data faster to their clients. This coincides with the general client need of data insights given as fast as possible.
So in terms of speed, it’s really sped up our turnaround times so we can kinda, you know, get to the good stuff, get to the analysis, and deliver the data to our to our clients faster.
“We estimate that we saved around a hundred and fifty hours of populating and checking slides.”
Shawna Orlowski
Vice President, Bovitz
Accuracy:
Obviously manual data entry can be prone to errors, so automation minimizes the risk of human errors and ensures the accuracy of the deliverables. This significantly improves the quality of Bovitz’s reports and also helps with their client credibility. For them, it is a win win!
Automation not only boosts internal efficiency but also strengthens trust and satisfaction externally. It allows their team to focus more on strategic insights and storytelling, rather than spending time double-checking data accuracy.
Strategic value:
For Bovitz, by automating the repetitive tasks they free up their researchers’ time to focus on what truly matters- higher value activities such as strategic analysis and consulting.
By streamlining their reporting processes with E-Tabs, Bovitz has unlocked more time for what truly matters, producing richer, more insightful reports that drive real business growth. With deeper analysis and sharper storytelling, they’re now delivering greater value to clients through cost savings and strategic insights that go beyond the surface.
But the impact goes deeper than efficiency alone. Automation has empowered Bovitz to evolve from report producers into strategic consultants. They are trusted partners who help clients uncover trends and patterns they might have otherwise missed. It’s a transformation that’s not just improving reports, but redefining the role Bovitz plays in their clients’ success!
The team now do less ‘doing’ and more ‘thinking.’ Focus at Bovitz is redirected to higher level analysis and digging deeper into the ‘why’ behind the numbers to develop those deeper insights. “Ultimately, we are helping our clients solve their business questions and our researchers are happier too!”
“The clients were thrilled and having the automation freed up our time to work on analysis and other higher level tasks.”
Shawna Orlowski
Vice President, Bovitz
The E-Tabs promise
At E-Tabs, we’re committed to delivering outstanding products and services to our clients. To ensure our partners get the most out of our solutions, we provide ongoing support and in-depth training, streamlining the entire reporting process.
Our automation capabilities now extend far beyond traditional Excel-to-PowerPoint or Google Slides workflows. Thanks to our powerful API, we can pull data directly from online dashboards such as Power BI, Tableau, and other platforms, automatically generating fully editable presentations in PowerPoint or Google Slides. This eliminates the need for manual input, ensuring instant, accurate, and hassle-free results!
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