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AI-assisted reporting
from complex business
systems

Sharperlight 8 helps business users and partners connect to ERP, finance, operational, cloud, and legacy data – then turn it into live Excel reports, dashboards, web reports, and automated reporting workflows.

Query Builder AI-Assisted

Show sales by customer for Q1 with year-over-year comparison
AI suggests: Sales table, Customer dimension
AI adds: Date filter: Q1 2026
AI creates: YoY comparison calculation

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Reporting should not be this hard.

Data trapped in complex systems

Critical business data locked away in ERP and legacy platforms

Too much manual Excel work

Hours wasted copying, pasting, and reformatting reports

Dashboards lack trusted data

Visualizations disconnected from source systems

Business users depend on IT

Waiting days for custom reports and data extracts

From complex data to trusted reports, dashboards, and decisions

Connect

Access live data from ERP, finance, operational, cloud, and legacy systems.

Model

Use governed datamodels to make complex source data usable.

Query

Give users guided access without writing SQL.

Report

Create live Excel reports, dashboards, web reports, and Power BI-ready datasets.

Automate

Schedule, distribute, publish, and refresh reporting outputs.

AI Assist

Ask questions, build reports, summarise results, and identify exceptions.

Introducing Sharperlight 8: AI assistance
for live business reporting

Sharperlight 8 brings AI into the reporting workflow, helping users explore data, build reports, understand results, and reduce the time between question and answer.

Your data stays secure

AI assistance runs on metadata and structure only. Your customer data never leaves your environment.

Ask questions in plain language

Business users can ask for data and reports in everyday reporting terms.

Build reports faster

Create starting points for Excel reports, dashboards, and recurring packs.

Summarise dashboards and reports

Turn reporting outputs into short, usable explanations.

AI Report Builder

Help me build a monthly variance report for finance team
I will help you structure that report. Here is what I suggest:
✓ Columns: Account, Budget, Actual, Variance, %
✓ Group by: Department hierarchy
✓ Add conditional formatting for variances
✓ Include YTD summary section
Perfect, add it to the report

Report Structure Created

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Built for the people who need better answers from complex data

For business users

Get live, trusted answers from the systems you use every day without waiting for custom reports.

See how users report faster ->

For finance and operations teams

Automate month-end reporting, management packs, operational dashboards, exception reports, and recurring analysis.

Explore reporting solutions ->

For partners and software vendors

Add reporting, dashboards, Excel integration, data capture, and AI-ready analytics to your customer solutions.

Talk to our partner team ->

One platform for reporting, analysis, automation, and action

Excel Reporting

Live, refreshable reports in the tool finance teams already use.

Web Reports

Publish interactive reports securely through the browser.

Dashboards

Visualise KPIs and operational performance using live data.

Query Builder

Help users access complex data without writing SQL.

Where Sharperlight makes the biggest difference

ERP reporting

Turn complex ERP data into live reports and dashboards without custom development.

Discuss your reporting challenge ->

Finance reporting

Automate month-end packs, variance analysis, and management reporting.

Discuss your reporting challenge ->

Operational dashboards

Monitor KPIs, inventory, service levels, and performance in real time.

Discuss your reporting challenge ->

Excel reporting automation

Eliminate manual data extraction and report assembly work.

Discuss your reporting challenge ->

Power BI data access

Provide governed, trusted data layers for Power BI and analytics tools.

Discuss your reporting challenge ->

Partner reporting solutions

Embed reporting and analytics into your vertical solutions and customer deployments.

Discuss your reporting challenge ->

Trusted by teams reporting from complex systems

10,000+

Reports automated

500+

Systems connected

50,000+

Hours saved monthly

Global

Partner network

Manufacturing Group

ERP Reporting

90% reduction in month-end reporting time

Sharperlight transformed how we extract and analyse data from our ERP. What used to take days now happens in minutes.

Finance Services Partner

Partner Solutions

Embedded reporting for 200+ clients

We can now offer enterprise-grade reporting without building and maintaining our own BI stack.

Operations Team

Operational Dashboards

Real-time visibility across 5 systems

Finally, a single view of our operations without waiting for IT to build custom integrations.

For partners and software vendors: add reporting without building it all yourself

Sharperlight gives partners a reporting, dashboarding, Excel, data capture, and AI-ready analytics layer they can deploy around customer systems and vertical solutions.