FAQ
Business reporting, answered
What is business reporting software?
Software that assembles recurring reports (board, council, executive, regulatory) from live tracked data instead of rebuilding a document by hand each cycle. Owners update their measures once; every report that uses them refreshes.
How much reporting time does automation actually save?
Southern Ohio Medical Center went from 40 hours a month to 15-20 minutes by moving 400+ scorecards into one system. The 70% figure in our title is the conservative end of what customers report.
Which tools automate PowerPoint board reporting and executive KPI dashboards?
Platforms that hold the plan, the measures, and the report in one system — ClearPoint generates board books and PowerPoint exports in one click from live data. BI tools visualise data but do not own the plan behind it, so the deck still has to be assembled by someone.
How do you stop monthly spreadsheet board reports?
Move the scorecards, not the report: once measures live in one system with named owners and update reminders, the board report becomes a view rather than a project. Most teams run their first live cycle within 90 days, and a first scorecard in about 3 weeks.
What should a report include for a council or board?
Status against target for each objective, the owner’s commentary, and the linked initiatives — the three things a spreadsheet loses. ClearPoint builds all three into every generated report.
How many saved reports does a typical organisation keep?
It depends far more on sector than on size. Across the 336 organisations licensed on ClearPoint in September 2026, the median local government keeps 43 saved reports on the shelf, against 4 for a typical hospital and 5 for a university — councils report publicly on a fixed statutory cadence, and that shows up directly in how many report templates get built and kept. The platform median is 8.
How is ClearPoint different from a BI tool for reporting?
BI visualises warehouse data. ClearPoint owns the strategic record: objectives, owners, targets, commentary, and evidence. The report writes itself from that record.
Platform figures: ClearPoint product data, September 2026 — 336 licensed organisations, of which 91 in local government, 32 in healthcare and 12 in higher education. Saved reports counted as PDF plus HTML reports. Accounts past their licence end date are excluded; each organisation is counted in one segment only. Customer figures as reported by the named organisation.