[rawgabbit]

>I've come to appreciate that it is beyond most people

I had the same experience. Before, my company tried several times and failed to implement enterprise dashboards and reporting. I was able to champion Tableau and get it off the ground and even the board of directors peruse the dashboards. I thought I had a huge win. I could not believe the amount of negativity I since received.

That is I believe enterprise reporting is essentially a people problem. The people who looks bad because of the metrics will always blame the tool. They won't be happy until they can manipulate the tool and massage the data until the metric becomes meaningless. In other words, it is convenient to blame the reporting if their report card shows they are failing.