One of the most significant and most useful features in a BI environment is the ability to share and distribute data across the organization's business users.

As we have seen so far, the main purpose of data is when it's pulled out from the database and displayed or shared across the organization's business users.

Getting the data into the right hands at the right time is probably the difference between a good and a bad business decision that can affect the entire business process.

Many business departments, managers, employees, and team leaders are dependent on their reports, which are the basis for their ongoing tasks; important for decision making; and useful for tracking, analyzing, and evaluating the business activity.

Scheduling reports is a very convenient and straightforward way to perform automation on reports that don't require manual activation or an automation distribution to a specific or several business users.

There are several advantages of using scheduling: