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tail. The users cannot slice-and-dice the information and they cannot drill down to
the details, if the aggregated level that the report shows is insufficient for decision
making.
If a user would like to have these capabilities, they would need to export the inform-
ation into a tool that enables them to easily do so. In general, this means that the
users bring the information into Excel to be able to pivot the information and add
their own measures. This often results in a situation where there are thousands of
Excel spreadsheets floating around in the organization, all with their own data, and
with different formulas calculating the same measures.
When analyzing data, the data itself is the most important thing. But if you cannot
understand the values, the data is of no benefit to you. Many users find that it is
easier to understand information, if it is presented in a way that they can consume
efficiently.
This means different things to different users, if you are a CEO, you probably want
to consume aggregated information in a dashboard such as the one you can see in
the following screenshot:
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