How will PAW help me?
End-User Benefits
Each week or month, you spend 2-4 hours doing the same report. The list of reports continues to grow. You spend tedious effort checking you haven't missed a certain filter step or the data is wrong. Increase your confidence and productivity with PAW.
You're spending effort not just creating data, but also tracking down discrepancies. With PAW, your data sourcing can be automated, resulting in fewer data issues. Fresher data is cleaner. Cleaner data means more hours in the day!
You're always trying to into the IT systems to get more work done. With PAW, you can call web services, query databases and do data loads. Get more done in less time and become the power user everyone expects you to be. |
Organizational Benefits
If you have spreadsheet created reports, data discrepancies can be common. Reports may use data pulled at various times. Massaging is manual and error-prone. Data sourcing and integration in PAW is automated, so reports from PAW will have fresher data.
You have lots of data integration in your environment and only one expert who knows any given process. With PAW, your data processes are documented, so people on vacation or leaving doesn't slow down your business. Reduce risk with PAW.
You have an over-worked IT group trying to catch up w/ business needs. You also have a business team that is working extremely hard. PAW can free up your people to do more by reducing the time both groups are spending on documentation and communication - empower your business data people to do more. |
Automate the RoutineProductivity Benefits Delivered Quickly
Comparison with Spreadsheets
The diagram above shows that using PAW takes little additional effort compared to using your existing spreadsheet application for ad-hoc data massaging or analysis. The benefit comes from the very next time that you need that same analysis or massaging. With PAW, you've automated your process and you get the results immediately.
Comparison with Custom ApplicationsCustom applications are often the other solution when you're trying to do something complex. PAW provides all the power that a custom application might provide, without the months and multitude of people and budget it takes to get a custom application implemented.
PAW in your Technology Toolbox
PAW solves a whole set of needs in your current workday that don't fit well in your current technology toolbox. Spreadsheets are very flexible and quick, but require lots of reconciliation work and are hard to support. Custom applications are expensive to build and manage, justifiable only for stable business processes. PAW is both flexible and quick like a spreadsheet, while delivering productivity benefits from automation like a custom application.
