You Have the Data. Why Is It Still So Hard to Get the Answers?
REPORTING & BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE SERVICES
Your business generates more information every day.
But when leaders still have to wait for reports, reconcile spreadsheets, question which numbers are correct, or ask someone else to pull the data before making a decision, having more data doesn't necessarily mean having more visibility.
Dorado Solutions helps turn business data into information people can actually use.
From financial and operational reporting to dashboards, analytics, and Microsoft Power BI, we help bring information together so your people can see what is happening, understand why, and make decisions with greater confidence.
With Dorado, You Can:
✔ Get faster access to the information that matters
✔ Reduce dependence on manually prepared spreadsheets
✔ Create more consistent reporting across the organization
✔ Give leaders greater visibility into financial and operational performance
✔ Build dashboards around the KPIs that actually drive your business
✔ Spend less time assembling reports and more time acting on them
✔ Make better use of the data already inside your business systems
BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY EXPERIENCE BEHIND THE NUMBERS
Trusted Microsoft solution advisors since 1997
Microsoft business application specialists
Accounting & technology professionals
Deep experience across Microsoft Dynamics
​Microsoft Power BI expertise
Financial & operational reporting experience
Business-first technology consulting
Long-term client relationships
"Before working with Dorado, getting the numbers wasn't the problem. Knowing which numbers to trust was. Now our leadership team can see what is happening without waiting days for someone to build another spreadsheet."
WHEN YOU CAN'T TRUST THE NUMBERS, EVERY DECISION GETS HARDER.
Your Business Shouldn't Have to Wait for Answers.
The meeting starts in an hour. Someone is still updating the spreadsheet.
Finance has one number. Operations has another.
A manager wants to know why margins changed, but answering the question means pulling information from three different systems.
And by the time the report is finished, everyone is already asking about something else.
Sound familiar?
Reporting problems don't just waste time.
They create uncertainty.
When people can't quickly get reliable answers, decisions slow down, opportunities are harder to see, problems stay hidden longer, and leadership spends too much time debating the numbers instead of deciding what to do about them.
Better reporting changes the conversation.
Instead of asking:
"Where did this number come from?"
Your team can start asking:
"What should we do about it?"
The Real Cost of Reporting Often Hides in the Work Around It.
Your people may be spending hours every week:
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Exporting information into Excel
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Copying and pasting data between systems
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Reformatting the same reports every month
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Reconciling conflicting numbers
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Waiting for someone with access to retrieve information
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Combining financial and operational data manually
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Tracking KPIs in separate spreadsheets
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Correcting formulas and broken links
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Rebuilding reports when business requirements change
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Preparing management reports long after the underlying activity occurred
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Answering one-off questions that require another custom report
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One spreadsheet may not seem like a problem.
Neither does one manual report.
But multiply that work across departments, employees, months, and years, and reporting becomes an invisible drain on productivity.
Worse, it can keep the people making important decisions one step behind the business.
HOW MUCH TIME IS YOUR TEAM SPENDING BUILDING REPORTS INSTEAD OF USING THEM?
FROM DATA TO DECISIONS
Reporting Should Tell You More Than What Happened.
Traditional reporting often focuses on one question:
What happened?
Modern business intelligence can help you go further:
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Why did it happen?
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Where is it happening?
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What requires attention?
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What should we look at next?
Dorado helps organizations create reporting environments that move beyond static information and make business performance easier to understand.
Depending on your requirements, that may include:
Financial Reporting
Give finance teams faster access to the information they need to understand performance, analyze results, and communicate what is happening across the business.
Operational Reporting
See what is happening across areas such as sales, purchasing, inventory, operations, projects, customers, and other critical business activities.
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Management Dashboards
Put important KPIs in front of executives and managers without forcing them to dig through pages of reports.
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Business Intelligence
Bring information together from multiple sources to uncover trends, relationships, exceptions, and opportunities that may otherwise remain hidden.
Microsoft Power BI
Create interactive dashboards and visual reporting experiences that make complex business information easier to explore and understand.
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YOUR REPORT SHOULDN'T CREATE MORE QUESTIONS THAN IT ANSWERS.
Better Reporting Starts With Better Questions.
It's easy to build another dashboard.
It's harder to build one that helps someone make a better decision.
Before Dorado starts with charts, visualizations, or technology, we start with the business.
We help you ask:
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Who needs this information?
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What decisions are they trying to make
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Which KPIs actually matter?
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Where does the information come from?
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Can the underlying data be trusted?
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How frequently does the information need to be updated?
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Does everyone define the metrics the same way?
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What level of detail does each audience need?
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Which reports are being created manually today?
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Which information should be available on demand?
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What actions should someone take after seeing the report?
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Because a beautiful dashboard filled with the wrong information is still the wrong dashboard.
The goal isn't more reporting.
It's greater clarity.
STOP MANAGING THE BUSINESS THROUGH THE REARVIEW MIRROR.
See Problems While You Can Still Do Something About Them.
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A monthly report can tell you what happened last month. But sometimes last month is too late.
Imagine seeing earlier that:
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​Margins are beginning to erode
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Inventory is building in the wrong places
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Sales performance is falling behind plan
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Customer activity is changing
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Expenses are moving outside expectations
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​Cash requirements are shifting
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Orders are taking longer to fulfill
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A business unit is underperforming
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An important KPI is trending in the wrong direction
Better visibility gives your people the opportunity to respond while the information can still influence the outcome.
That's where reporting becomes more than reporting.
It becomes a management tool.
Reporting Strategy & Assessment
Evaluate your existing reporting environment, identify gaps, understand stakeholder requirements, and prioritize improvements based on business value.
Financial Reporting
Develop reporting that helps finance teams analyze financial performance with greater consistency and less manual effort.
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Operational Reporting
Create visibility into the activities and performance measures that keep the business running.
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Executive Dashboards
Give leadership an at-a-glance view of the KPIs and trends that require attention.
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Microsoft Power BI
Design interactive dashboards and analytics that make business information easier to explore, visualize, and share.
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Data Integration
Bring information together from Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft 365, and other business applications where appropriate to create a more complete view of performance.
Report & Customization
Create or modify reports around the specific information your people need to manage the business.
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Reporting Optimization
Improve existing reports and dashboards as business requirements, systems, KPIs, and management priorities change.
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DON'T AUTOMATE BAD DATA.
Faster Reporting Doesn't Help If Nobody Trusts the Information.
Sometimes the reporting tool isn't the real problem. The problem is underneath it.
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Duplicate records.
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Inconsistent definitions.
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Incomplete transactions.
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Disconnected systems.
Different departments tracking the same metric differently.
Manual processes that introduce errors before the information ever reaches a report.
Putting Power BI on top of unreliable data doesn't automatically make that data reliable.
Dorado helps look beyond the report to understand where the information originates, how it moves through the business, and what may need to change before you can confidently rely on the results.
Because the goal isn't simply to get the number faster.
It's to know you can trust it when it arrives.
ONE VERSION OF THE TRUTH SHOULDN'T BE A LUXURY.
Give People Access to Consistent Information.
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Finance shouldn't have one definition of revenue while sales has another.
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Operations shouldn't be working from yesterday's spreadsheet while leadership is looking at today's dashboard.
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And employees shouldn't have to ask around to determine which report is the "real" one.
A stronger reporting environment can help establish:
✔ KPI definitions
✔ Shared reporting logic
✔ Controlled access to information
✔ Repeatable reporting processes
✔ Greater confidence in management reports
✔Less dependence on individual spreadsheet owners
✔Easier access to relevant business information
When people start with the same information, conversations can move faster.
And decisions can become much more productive.
1. Discover
Understand your business priorities, reporting challenges, existing systems, stakeholders, KPIs, and decision-making requirements.
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2. Assess
Evaluate existing reports, data sources, manual processes, reporting gaps, data quality, and technology requirements.
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3. Prioritize
Identify the reporting improvements most likely to create meaningful business value and reduce unnecessary manual work.
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4. Design & Build
Develop reports, dashboards, integrations, data models, and reporting experiences around clearly defined business requirements.
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5. Test & Adopt
Validate information with the people who actually use it, confirm calculations and definitions, refine the experience, and help employees adopt the new reporting environment.
6. Optimize
Measure usefulness, improve reports as requirements change, and identify additional opportunities to strengthen business visibility.
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"Dorado didn't just give us prettier reports. They helped us understand which information our managers actually needed to run the business. That made the difference."
WHY ORGANIZATIONS CHOOSE DORADO
Business People Who Understand Technology. Technology Experts Who Understand Business.
Reporting is ultimately about technology. But the reason you need reporting isn't.
✔ You need to understand profitability.
✔ Control costs.
✔ Manage cash.
✔ Serve customers.
✔ Improve operations.
✔ Spot problems.
✔ Plan growth.
✔ And make decisions with greater confidence.
That requires more than someone who knows how to build a dashboard.
Dorado brings decades of accounting, business application, process, and Microsoft technology experience to the conversation.
We don't begin by asking which chart you want.
We begin by asking what you're trying to understand.
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Microsoft business application expertise
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Accounting and business backgrounds
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Experience with financial and operational reporting
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Microsoft Dynamics expertise
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Microsoft Power BI capabilities
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Business process experience
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Practical recommendations based on business requirements
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Long-term consulting and support relationships
"We used to spend the first half of every management meeting debating whether the numbers were right. Now we spend that time talking about what we're going to do next."
Business Outcomes
Organizations improving their reporting environment may be able to achieve:
✔ Fewer hours spent manually preparing reports
✔ Faster access to financial and operational information
✔ Greater confidence in business data
✔ More consistent KPIs across departments
✔ Faster management reporting cycles
✔ Less dependence on spreadsheets
✔ Earlier visibility into business problems
✔ Easier analysis of trends and exceptions
✔ Better use of existing Microsoft investments
✔ More time spent analyzing information instead of assembling it
✔ More informed business decisions
"We ended up with a cleaner environment that better supports the way our business works today."
WHAT DOES A REPORTING PROJECT COST?
There isn't one standard price for a reporting initiative because reporting requirements can vary dramatically.
Improving several existing financial reports is very different from creating an enterprise reporting environment that combines information from multiple systems and delivers Power BI dashboards across departments.
Project cost may be affected by:
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​Number of reports or dashboards required
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Complexity of reporting requirements
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Number of data sources
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Data quality and preparation requirements
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Integration requirements
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Microsoft technologies already in place
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Number and complexity of KPIs
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Required calculations and business logic
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Security and access requirements
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Historical data requirements
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User and department requirements
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Training
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Ongoing reporting support and optimization
Dorado helps define what information you need, where it resides, and what business decisions it should support before recommending the appropriate reporting approach.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
What Is Business Intelligence?
What Is Microsoft Power BI?
What's the Difference Between a Report and a Dashboard?
Can Power BI Connect to Microsoft Dynamics?
Can We Combine Data From Multiple Systems?
Can Better Reporting Reduce Our Dependence on Excel?
Why Don't Our Reports Match?
Do We Need to Replace Our ERP System to Improve Reporting?
How Do We Know Which KPIs Should Be on Our Dashboards?
Where Should We Start With a Reporting Project?
YOUR BUSINESS IS ALREADY TELLING YOU WHAT'S HAPPENING.
Make Sure You Can See It.
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The answers may already be somewhere in your business.
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✔ Inside your ERP.
✔ Inside your financial system.
✔ Inside your CRM.
✔ Inside spreadsheets.
✔ Inside operational applications.
The problem is getting those answers to the right people, at the right time, in a form they can understand and trust.
You don't need more reports simply because you have more data.
You need better visibility into the decisions that matter.
Dorado Solutions helps turn scattered business information into reporting, dashboards, and insights that help your people spend less time searching for answers and more time acting on them.