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Common challenges

Manual processes
Manual processes slow down reporting cycles, increase the likelihood of errors and make life hard for your staff.
- Lack of automation
  When your financial reporting system lacks sufficient automation, your staff members have to perform tedious manual tasks to get things done. Even with robust workflows in place, you should avoid manual processes wherever possible, especially when they are a routine part of the reporting cycle. They only serve to frustrate and confuse what you’re doing.
- Poor morale
  When your staff’s valuable time is taken up by manual processes that could otherwise be automated, morale is going to take a hit. It’s not what your employees signed up for and it makes for miserable work in most cases. Why not free up your staff so they can do what they do best?
- Nuanced automation
  Cubewise and IBM Planning Analytics / TM1 can help you unlock a range of different automation processes that can run without your staff’s input and achieve more consistent, accurate results. This speeds up your reporting significantly while also improving your team’s day-to-day work. Let computers do the routine tasks and let your people focus on the high-level tasks only they can do.
Slow to gather data
- Inefficient data collection
  When your data collection methods are widely dispersed and inefficient, your reporting is bound to suffer. This inefficiency can occur as a result of unsuitable technology, manual processes, tedious data cleaning, complex data structures, or any number of other reasons, each of which contribute to slower throughput overall.
- Outdated reports
  With inefficiency comes slower results as you’re forced to reckon with bottlenecks. This has a direct impact on your reports, making them less valuable and, in some cases, rendering them out of date completely. It’s not what you want when you’re managing a rapidly evolving business ecosystem.
- A sophisticated data warehouse
  Cubewise and IBM Planning Analytics / TM1 offer a comprehensive data warehouse and Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) system that can handle any type of data that comes its way. By combining all data in one place, the system can dramatically improve overall efficiency and speed. This optimisation makes all the difference when you want to make the most out of the insights gathered and you’re aiming to accelerate the reporting cycle.
Non-standard formats
- Inconsistent branding
  Your reporting should always reflect your brand. But if every division reports in different ways and with different objectives, your reporting can easily become inconsistent across the organisation. The quality control process then becomes tedious as someone must make the adjustments needed to meet branding guidelines before anything can go out to stakeholders.
- Unprofessional reputation
  Without report standardisation, your company can come across as unprofessional, which is not how you want to be labelled. Consistent aesthetics are important to create the right impression and to ensure readers don’t get bogged down in how the report looks rather then reads.
- Templated branding
  Within IBM Planning Analytics / TM1, Cubewise can help you set up specific branding guidelines that can be applied automatically to any reports coming out of the system. This standardisation happens without anyone having to think about it, maintaining a consistent look and feel regardless of where the report comes from.

Lack of automation
When your financial reporting system lacks sufficient automation, your staff members have to perform tedious manual tasks to get things done. Even with robust workflows in place, you should avoid manual processes wherever possible, especially when they are a routine part of the reporting cycle. They only serve to frustrate and confuse what you’re doing.
Poor morale
When your staff’s valuable time is taken up by manual processes that could otherwise be automated, morale is going to take a hit. It’s not what your employees signed up for and it makes for miserable work in most cases. Why not free up your staff so they can do what they do best?
Nuanced automation
Cubewise and IBM Planning Analytics / TM1 can help you unlock a range of different automation processes that can run without your staff’s input and achieve more consistent, accurate results. This speeds up your reporting significantly while also improving your team’s day-to-day work. Let computers do the routine tasks and let your people focus on the high-level tasks only they can do.

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