Even in some of the largest retail operations we work with, printed reports - stacks and stacks of them produced each week - remain a fixture. But the fact is, in comparison to on-screen reporting, reports printed on paper fail to deliver insight and are much more expensive.The Incompatibility of Retail BI and PaperPaper has three unfortunate properties which greatly inhibit its value. Paper is: Flat Expensive Used once then filed or discardedIn contrast, the information used in retail business intelligence is: Multi-dimensional Voluminous Highly reusable