Reporting & Automation
Automation of Spreadsheets
Explore how repeatable spreadsheet work and reconciliation checks can be organized into more dependable processes.
Explore Spreadsheet Automation →BLUE HEN ANALYTICS | INSIGHTS
Practical insights for better business decisions.
Explore useful ideas in reporting automation, forecasting, customer analytics, and operational improvement, with a focus on the decisions behind the data.
Explore the questions, methods, and decisions behind useful analytics.
FROM OUR KNOWLEDGE LIBRARY
Explore the analytical methods behind better decisions.
Selected existing Blue Hen Analytics explainers, organized by the business questions they can help answer.
Forecasting
Time-Series Forecasting
Learn how historical observations, trends, and seasonality can inform planning while making assumptions visible.
Explore Forecasting Methods →Customer Analytics
Recency, Frequency, Monetary Analysis
Understand how purchase recency, frequency, and value can help group customers for more focused decisions.
Explore RFM Analysis →Customer Behavior
Market Basket Analysis
Examine products purchased together and the questions those patterns raise about cross-selling and assortment.
Explore Market Basket Analysis →Experimentation
A/B Testing
See why controlled comparisons provide stronger evidence when evaluating alternative marketing or operational approaches.
Learn About A/B Testing →Profitability
Price Optimization
Consider how demand, customer response, and economics affect pricing decisions.
Explore Price Optimization →Explore more detailed explanations of each analytical technique through the linked articles.
ANALYTICAL APPLICATIONS
From a business question to a practical investigation.
Examples of business questions that can guide a focused investigation and practical recommendations.
FINANCIAL SERVICES
Why are cash-clearing items aging?
Compare exception age, processing stages, matching rules, ownership, and changes over time to identify where investigation should concentrate.
Explore our approach →RETAIL & INVENTORY
Why are purchasing errors increasing?
Investigate who, when, how, and why, adjusting for transaction volume before recommending controls, training, or process changes.
Explore operational analysis →BUSINESS REPORTING
Which reporting steps can be automated?
Review handoffs, data sources, validation checks, and recurring tasks to decide where automation can improve reliability and visibility.
Explore reporting services →ADDITIONAL READING
Explore perspectives beyond our website.
Explore selected perspectives on how organizations use data analytics to improve operations, understand customers, and make better business decisions. These resources complement the analytical methods and practical applications presented throughout the Blue Hen Analytics website.
PERSPECTIVES FROM OUR CLIENTS
The value of useful, understandable analysis.
Summaries of client feedback previously published by Blue Hen Analytics.
Improved efficiency and accuracy in recurring accounting reports, with less time spent preparing them.
Sr. Manager, AccountingCustomer segmentation provided a better basis for tailoring outreach to customers who had stopped purchasing.
Manager, E-CommerceLET'S START WITH YOUR BUSINESS QUESTION
Make your information more useful.
Tell us what you would like to understand, forecast, improve, or automate. We'll discuss an approach that fits your business.
