| ign="center"> | | | | software will be the answer, distilling billions of dollars |
| Stimulus: it is a word we have heard a lot more about | | | | and hundreds of programs into easy to digest graphs |
| in recent months. With failing banks and bankrupt | | | | and reports, so the government and the taxpayers |
| automotive manufacturers, the stimulus package has | | | | can more easily make sense of it all. Added |
| been lauded as the answer to our troubling economic | | | | transparency will lead to greater consumer confidence |
| times by some and cursed as a dangerous | | | | that all that can be done is being done, but only if the |
| sociological experiment by others. Truthfully, there is | | | | reporting is clear, interactive, and ultimately accurate. |
| always the chance either one could come to pass, | | | | To ensure agencies comply with the reporting |
| though the former is far more likely than the latter. | | | | requirements, and so the public can understand where |
| Now thanks to the US Recovery Act, some | | | | their money is going and have full confidence in the |
| much-needed transparency is being introduced. How | | | | economy once more, reporting tools are needed in |
| are the billions of dollars in expenditures going to be | | | | order to provide features such as monitoring and |
| allocated by those who receive them? After the AIG | | | | analysis. Today's reporting tools provide a visually |
| bonus debacle, it is unlikely Americans will be sitting idly | | | | compelling, interactive Web-based interface into the |
| by, uncaring of the answers. | | | | data inside these agencies. |
| But it is not simply the government's intent to catch the | | | | With easy to use drop-down menus and selection |
| incompetent. The stimulus package is not a scarlet F | | | | boxes, users can sift through mountains of data much |
| for failure to the businesses in need of monies. It is an | | | | more easily and quickly. The report development |
| attempt to boost the growth of the economy, so jobs | | | | workload for a given agency is also decreased |
| and income can continue to be available to American | | | | because a single interactive dashboard report can |
| families. As such, a top concern is to be careful that | | | | take the place of dozens of static ones. |
| the funds are dispensed fairly, accurately, and swiftly. | | | | Citizens can rest assured the availability of this new |
| Of course, there should be full disclosure to the ones | | | | reporting technology will set and maintain standards of |
| footing the bill, but at the same time, many of us stand | | | | accountability that will, in fact, prevent future abuse of |
| to benefit from the windfall of jobs and economic | | | | budget. Agencies that find themselves recipients of |
| growth to come. | | | | stimulus money can also take solace that there are |
| With so much money changing hands, going to so | | | | such reporting tools at their disposal, which will ensure |
| many different places and programs, abuse would be | | | | fair and worry-free accountability on the road to |
| inevitable without the proper reporting tools in place to | | | | recovery. |
| track payouts. As a result, reporting tool companies, | | | | Only a transparent approach will restore consumer |
| such as behemoths such as IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, | | | | trust in government bureaucracy, prove accountability, |
| and a popular entrepreneurial business intelligence | | | | and rebuild the growth of the US economy. With the |
| specialist such as InetSoft of Piscataway, NJ, are | | | | right reporting tools, this can be easily accomplished, |
| poised to win opportunities. | | | | and the country's government can make a giant leap |
| In order to provide the level of transparency of how | | | | forward in proving its worth to the American people. |
| much is spent when and on what, reporting tool | | | | |