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Data and reporting: problems we solve

15 problems data and reporting bring us, each with the cause, what it costs and what we build to fix it.

Data and reporting problems

15 articles

Why Does Our Weekly Management Report Take a Whole Day to Put Together?

Data and reporting

When the weekly report takes all day to build, the problem is the collection, not the writing. How SpiderHunts automates the gathering, checks and layout.

Why Do Our Sales Team and Finance Team Quote Different Revenue Figures?

Data and reporting

When sales and finance numbers don't match, meetings turn into arguments. SpiderHunts traces the difference, agrees one definition and builds a shared source.

How Do We Get Usable Data Out of a System That Only Gives Us PDF Reports?

Data and reporting

When a system only exports PDF reports, staff retype the figures. SpiderHunts builds extraction that turns those PDFs into clean rows your tools can use.

How Do We See Everything About One Customer Without Opening Five Systems?

Data and reporting

No single view of the customer means staff open five systems to answer one call. SpiderHunts matches records across tools and builds one customer view.

We Paid for a Dashboard but Managers Still Ask for the Spreadsheet. Why?

Data and reporting

A dashboard nobody trusts gets ignored while people go back to spreadsheets. SpiderHunts finds the broken numbers, adds checks and rebuilds confidence.

How Do We Stop Emailing Excel Files Back and Forth and Losing Track of the Latest Version?

Data and reporting

Excel files emailed around create version chaos and lost changes. SpiderHunts moves the shared data into one place with proper editing, history and exports.

Why Does It Take Days to Answer a Simple Question From the Managing Director?

Data and reporting

When management questions take days to answer, the data exists but nobody can reach it. SpiderHunts builds a query-ready data layer to fix it.

Our Data Is Spread Across Ten Different SaaS Tools. How Do We Get One Picture?

Data and reporting

With data spread across too many SaaS tools, nobody sees the whole business. SpiderHunts pulls each tool's data through its API into one reporting database.

Why Does Our Report Stop Working Whenever Someone Adds or Renames a Column?

Data and reporting

If your report breaks every time a column changes, it depends on position, not meaning. SpiderHunts rebuilds it with named fields, checks and clear alerts.

Why Does Every Department Calculate the Same KPI a Different Way?

Data and reporting

When KPIs are defined differently every time, trends mean nothing. SpiderHunts helps you write one definition per metric and builds it into every report.

Our Power BI Dashboard Refresh Fails Every Few Days. How Do We Make It Reliable?

Data and reporting

If your Power BI refresh keeps failing, the cause is usually the gateway, the sources or the model. SpiderHunts fixes the data path so refreshes stay reliable.

Why Is Our Looker Studio Dashboard So Slow, and Sometimes Wrong?

Data and reporting

A Looker Studio report too slow to load is usually running on Google Sheets or blended sources. SpiderHunts moves the data into BigQuery with prepared tables.

How Do We Stop Stitching Together Weekly Figures That Each Branch Sends in Its Own Format?

Data and reporting

When branch figures are sent in different formats, head office retypes and reconciles them. SpiderHunts builds one submission route and automatic checks.

We Know Our Overall Profit but Not Which Jobs or Customers Actually Make Money. How Do We Find Out?

Data and reporting

If you can't see profit per job or customer, the costs and revenue sit in different systems. SpiderHunts joins them so each job shows what it actually earned.

How Do We Answer a Subject Access Request When the Person's Data Is Spread Across a Dozen Systems?

Data and reporting

A subject access request that needs data from many systems turns into a week of searching. SpiderHunts builds a search and export across your systems.