By Andy Nathan – Your company relies on data. However, getting quality reports requires a lot of resources to complete, and the processes have gotten tougher over the last few years as companies have more data to analyze.

That is why managers now spend 40 percent of their time writing reports, according to a Boston Consulting Group study. The vast remainder of that time is for meetings where they coordinate with different groups to analyze those reports.

Even with all these resources, more than 99 percent of data never gets used or analyzed according to the Harvard Business Review.

The process can be infuriating, which is precisely why many companies are turning to business intelligence (BI) systems to automate this wasteful process. One of the most popular options is Microsoft’s Power BI platform. Read On: