Reporting with Microsoft Office

Reports that tell a story, reports that communicate, reports that are designed for real people.

Microsoft Office conveys information in a way that is familiar and easy to use. We have in-depth experience with Office products, as well as the data management and programming skills to create reports that tell a story.

We connect data from your database applications and present it in whichever application best suits your needs. Our object-oriented and .NET programming experience give us the flexibility to produce solutions with impact and authority.

Microsoft Word

Open XML technology allows Microsoft Word to turn into a high-impact reporting tool. It has many advantages:

• Narrative can be blended with data, making the report easier to read and understand
• Data can be presented in tables, pie charts, bar graphs or other ways
• Graphical elements can be included, to illustrate and enhance understanding

In fact, you can do all of the things you might do when producing a hand-crafted report using Microsoft Word. By automating Word reports you can draw data from other sources, and dramatically speed up creating the report. They can be produced as often as necessary, always with up to date information, reducing the time taken and cutting out errors.

Our experience in data solutions, programming and XML enable us to create reports that exactly meet your requirements. We have extensive experience of creating graphical and highly visual reports. Microsoft Word reports are ideal for sales and marketing information, training reports, presenting research data, or any business issue that needs well-presented information.

If you think Microsoft Word might be a reporting solution for your particular requirements, contact us for an initial discussion→

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Excel is well-used and well-liked as a business reporting tool. PowerPivot and pivot tables are powerful ways of analysing and understanding business issues, providing the right data source is behind them. Whether you are working with large or small data volumes, Excel can provide a suitable way of sharing, analysing and drilling into data.

We are experienced in producing data cubes from a variety of sources to give you the structure and flexibility you need to analyse your data. We have experience of working with relational and cube data structures, and well as analysing requirements to produce long term solutions to reporting requirements. Data can be brought together from multiple sources and presented in tabular or graphical formats.

Our service includes documentation and training to make it easier for you to use the data, train people when staff change, and maintain your reports when underlying systems change.

Microsoft Access

Microsoft Access is ideal for holding departmental or line of business data, and there is an increasing need to share and analyse information from these databases. We have in-depth experience in both designing and reporting from Microsoft Access databases.

We can produce listing and graphical reports from Microsoft Access to give more impact to your data. Access reports have the advantage that they are easy for the user to run, and because we test them thoroughly before installing you can rely on their accuracy.

We are also able to process the data from Microsoft Access databases into structures that are suitable for use with pivot tables or Microsoft Word reports, giving you greater flexibility and more options with your reporting. As with everything we do, we will talk to you about your needs and ensure that the reporting solution is appropriate and flexible enough to cope with your current and possible future needs.