Business reporting agility and custom reporting within Snow

Today’s final post in the #DoMoreWithSnowServices​ series comes from Sophie Newman, who is Snow Software’s Technical Consulting Manager for UKIMEA, on reporting within Snow’s Technology Intelligence Platform and how the system provides agility for bespoke business reporting. Snow Software's Technology Intelligence Platform, a market leader in Software Asset Management (SAM), has over 50 prebuilt reports combining 25 years of expertise in hardware, software, and licensing that are viewable from the web portal. Thus, allowing reporting on a variety of different data points such as software usage, software compliance and application rationalization.

Once users become familiar with these reports, it may find that one or two of these no longer fit the dataset needed for reporting purposes, more contextual information is required to be integrated, or downloading two reports and joining them in a 3rd party tool is cumbersome. Perhaps a manager, CTO, or the CIO has a view of data from Snow, but this needs amalgamating with additional external data sources. This is where custom reporting can work for you. Here at Snow Software, our technical consultants have extensive experience in working with various datasets, sources and requirements. The first thing we explore is the “why?” behind any request for bespoke reporting. Once validated, we work in close collaboration with our customers to design and fulfil any requirements through our established methodology. This methodology addresses considerations such as the following.

1. What data source(s) are required to complement the comprehensive data already collected via Snow Agents or Inventory feeds.

2. The update frequency for any additional data sources and the associated bespoke reports.

3. Data visibility, and whether any user access restrictions need to be placed on the report. With Snow Software’s platform being based on Role Based Access Control (RBAC) you can control who have access to what data.

4. Where the custom report is accessible from, either via the Snow platform web GUI or directly downloaded to a set location ready for a 3rd party process to pick the file up for further transformation.

Interested in engaging with one of our Professional Services Consultants to discuss your reporting requirements? Please contact Snow Professional Services: https://lnkd.in/eJdvjaYF