Trust your numbers

How reporting and reality drift apart, and the checks that catch it before a meeting does.

Reports do not fail loudly. They drift: a definition changes on one report and not another, an export truncates at exactly its row limit, a figure is a day older than the person quoting it assumes. Nothing errors, and the number is quietly wrong.

Credibility is what is at stake. A report contradicted once in a meeting stays suspect for years, no matter how carefully it is fixed afterwards.

Applies now, not later. Most of these drifts happen in spreadsheets and ERP exports long before Analytics Studio ships. The checks on this page work on whatever you report from today.
  • Trusting your numbers — freshness, truncation, definition drift, and reconciling against the ERP once, properly.

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Trusting your numbers

Where reporting and reality drift apart, and the checks that catch it before a meeting does.