Your reporting problem is a process problem

When leadership asks for better reporting, what they usually mean is that they want to see what's happening in the business without waiting a week and without trusting numbers that were assembled by hand. Most teams hear that as "build us a dashboard" and start hunting for a BI tool. But the dashboard isn't the problem. The reason your weekly report takes four hours is that the data is scattered across five systems, three of them require manual entry, and two people on your team are quietly correcting each other's spreadsheets every Friday afternoon. No reporting tool can fix that. It can only display it faster.

The reporting work that actually sticks starts upstream, with the process that produces the data. Sometimes that means tightening how a sale gets logged. Sometimes it means retiring a spreadsheet that's become a second source of truth. Sometimes it means connecting two systems so the same number doesn't have to be typed twice. Once the underlying process is producing clean, consistent data, the dashboard part is almost trivial — and leadership finally starts trusting what they're looking at, because they're not wondering whether Tuesday's number got entered correctly anymore.