The Department was producing a monthly dashboard report which was distributed to the Area Health Units and Health Corporate Executives. The report contained key financial and operational metrics by Budget Holder providing a comprehensive variance analysis of budget vs. actual together with the latest reforecast which were represented by a combination of tables and charts. The effort necessary to produce this document was considerable, the process was fragmented and largely manual involving a considerable number of spreadsheets, reports, many data extractions from multiple sources and a considerable amount of emailing of information between participants involved in the process.