8 Best Reporting Tools & Software for 2022

Reporting is the presentation of data in an easy-to-understand format. Reporting tools that are well-designed will provide you with a chart, graph, or other visual representations of information to aid you in making decisions. If the representation is relevant and accurate, you can gain actionable insight.

Reporting is also about how complex the data is. Semi-manual reports can be done with non-complex data in a spreadsheet like a Google Sheet. As the data becomes more complex, you will need other tools to aggregate it. Some even use AI and machine learning to make sense of the information.

If you need to deal with company-wide data, you may be considering a big analytics platform. But that is a separate topic. Whether you’re using a BI tool or project management software, the tool must be able to adapt to your business, handle multiple data sources, and provide you with the information you need.

The Key Features of Reporting Tools & Software

• Robust Reporting: This is usually seen as interactive reports, where you can click on the items to drill down into the source of the information. The number of filters you have available can also be used to measure robust reporting.
• Dashboard customization: This customization allows you to change the visual composition of your board. You can also drag and drop to change colors and chart types, or personalize the board with drag-and-drop. You can create a dashboard for digital marketing, finance, budgets, and any other type of dashboard with relative ease.
• Source options: This tool should be capable of pulling information from multiple sources. These sources are usually the tools in the integrations listing.
• Sharing options: You should be able to share your information with others using a variety of options on the platform. These options can include a specific file format or printing options, as well as sharing to other apps such as Slack.

8 Best Reporting Tools & Software for 2022

1. ProWorkflow

ProWorkflow was created in 2002 as a project management tool that could support analytics and reporting. Logging in to the tool will immediately show you a dashboard that provides a visual summary of your current stats, including completed, active, and upcoming work.

Standard reports give detailed information about your workload and performance, as well as the tasks and financial data. You can create your own custom reports, choose the data you want, and share it with your team.

The reports screens and the downloads are not very appealing visually. Although the data is well-organized and easy to understand, you may want more physical pizzaz. You might have to perform some manual graphic design interventions.

You can access key features such as resource reports on staff, time, workload breakdown, time summary, individual project reports, and task reports. Reports can also be exported to multiple formats.

ProWorkflow can be integrated with tools such as Quickbooks, KashFlow, FreshBooks MYOB AccountRight, Box Storage, DropBox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, and hundreds more through Zapier.

ProWorkflow is $10/month and includes up to 10 active projects.

Originally published on The Tech Trend