Manufacturing software systems typically collect incredible volumes of data across the enterprise. Although data alone can’t improve your analysis or business decisions, getting an accurate view of your business is impossible without it. You need data that is accurate, readily accessible, and secure. Instead, information is often stored across multiple, disparate systems, and manually based data management processes are time consuming and error prone. From the executive level to the front lines, effective decisions are compromised without reliable, timely data. Many manufacturing companies must deploy a team of data and business analysts or IT resources to build and maintain reports, analytics, or dashboards for the company’s business users and executives.