Today, we all have access to data, and growing businesses can’t afford to make decisions on incomplete information and gut-feeling. But data alone isn’t enough – we need a way to turn data into insight. That’s why every business needs a business intelligence tool. But what are business intelligence tools? Business intelligence tools are used to access and analyze sets of data and present findings to provide users with a detailed overview of the state of the business.

As a team lead, sharing regular status updates and progress reports with project stakeholders and executives is all in a day’s work. That’s because reporting is an essential part of communicating impact, getting ahead of potential pitfalls, and highlighting wins. The problem is, too many team leads spend too much of their time gathering the facts and figures needed to show where work stands.

At Asana, we’re big fans of reducing work about work—that pesky 60% of our workday that we spend on rote or duplicative tasks. Think of every time you’ve searched a document for a specific data point, spent precious time chasing for the right stakeholder or approver, or sat through a status meeting that could have been a written report. For team leads, reporting on work and sharing progress metrics is just another facet of work about work.