Data Integration

We specialise in integration to help your business succeed

In every business that uses technology, valuable data is stored in a wide variety of systems such as business applications and spreadsheets. This presents a challenge for organisations to obtain a unified view of their business activity.

On Report’s data integration service provides a solution for combining data from different sources into a unified, coherent format which may be leveraged for comprehensive, streamlined business reporting.

Data is valuable, however it is difficult to tap into

Businesses today use many systems to manage their day-to-day activities, such as CRM, workforce management, inventory management, project management and Microsoft business applications. Each of these applications contain valuable data which can be used for business reporting. However, extracting this data from each application can be a challenge.

Manually reporting data from business applications may involve exporting raw csv or excel files from each system and manipulating this data in a spreadsheet, which is error prone and costly. Alternatively, business applications may offer a ‘customisable’ reporting functionality, however often this functionality is too generalised to suit individual business needs. Moreover, using dashboards from separate business applications is too disjointed for professional enterprise-wide reporting.

Ultimately, this costs thousands of dollars in time and resources.

Our data integration service aims to help you tap into your data

On Report’s data integration service exists to bring together data from multiple sources into one centralised location in order to provide a single unified view of this information.

On Report uses software such as databases, cloud storage, data warehouses and in some cases Power BI as a centralised location for business information. These systems are integrated with business applications to automatically ingest data using secure methods such as RESTful API connections. The end result is a consolidated source of organisations’ data.

Our data integration benefits

On Report aims to enhance business’ analytical capabilities through streamlined data integration solutions. We prefer to use the Microsoft Power BI and Microsoft Azure applications to develop data integration solutions. Key benefits of our data integration solutions are:

• Enterprise-wide reporting – data integration facilitates the creation of comprehensive, enterprise-wide reporting based on consolidated data. Visit our dashboard development service page for more information on our dashboard reporting solutions.
• Improved data quality for reporting – automatic data connections lead to improved data quality as data is kept up to date with a reduced risk of human errors in data processing.
• Data transformations – data from applications is accessible for reporting tools such as Power BI to perform data transformations, for example creating custom KPI metrics, for richer, more customised business reporting.
• Increased efficiency – data is pulled automatically from systems, or is loaded with fewer manual steps, reducing the cost of labour involved in reporting.
• Improved collaboration – facilitate greater collaboration across the business through shared reporting and controlled access to information across departments.
• Improved data sharing – access and circulate information throughout different areas of organisations from a centralised repository.
• Secure access management – control who has access to data in a centralised repository for a higher level of security.
• Stronger data security – reduce risk of data being shared through unsecured means such as email or being stored in unsecure locations such as local computer drives (e.g. desktop folder).