Sales reports are full of numbers, big and small, but everyone tends to focus on the big numbers because they are easy to find by sorting. It is nice to be able to celebrate the big wins, but what happens when the bulk of your sales are smaller order sizes? How do you know if one channel or salesperson or product line is performing better than another? Tough question, but with nextanalytics, there is an easy solution.

The report we need would show the number of orders of various sizes, and allow us to compare various products or channels. There should also be some visual aid in the form of charting or highlighting to make the patterns immediately apparent. nextanalytics can deliver this directly as a highlighted HTML page, or you can feed the results to your dashboard tool of choice.

Creating this powerful analysis liek this is very easy with nextanalytics - and you can load your data from an existing database query or a spreadsheet file. No need for complex and fragile SQL queries or spreadsheet formulas - nextanalytics has a powerful scripting language that will copy, move, filter, pivot, count and summarize your data into the format needed. Maybe you start with a summary query, or maybe it is a transaction file - the only difference to nextanalytics is a couple of script commands.

You know analytics can give you a deeper understanding into your business. If your current reporting solution can't give you the information you want, it's time to look at nextanalytics and see farther.