It’s ironic that in this age of information, businesses flooded in data can have such a difficult time making feat. But that’s been the reality for many organizations. Take Cisco Systems’ Services Operations Group, for example. Sydney Shackleford, one of the group’s project managers, spent much of her week manually consolidating data into a slide deck. By the time she presented the deck in a bi-weekly status update, much of the data was outdated.