When you hear the words business software for business and Reporting You may think of binders filled with charts, spreadsheets, and footnotes. Or perhaps conference rooms that are crowded with executives slaving through slides. But this is changing thanks to the interplay of many digital technologies. Machine learning and cognitive tools will do a lot of the grunt task of collecting information, preparing reports, and more help: how data room documents are organized for easy retrieval disseminating them freeing human workers to perform more exciting tasks.

The winners of the new era will be those who redefine what it means to have an organization that is driven by their products. They will utilize their products to increase growth, retention and acquisition of customers. And they’ll incorporate PLG into the process of designing, developing and providing their products.

Metso for instance, utilized the centralized reporting capabilities of Quickbase to gather all their critical data including ERP Inventory Data, ERP, etc. and to track the progress on high-priority purchases. The solution allowed them to save more than $1 million annually. You can streamline your company operations, increase efficiency, and make better choices with up-to-date and accurate data with the right reporting platform. The key is to ensure that the analytics and reporting platform is a value-add for customers not an added burden. This is what PLG is all about.