Southern Company is a large electric utility company serving 4.4 million customers across 4 states. It has over 26,000 employees across various operating companies and business units. Southern Company has improved its reporting capabilities over time, moving from manually generated Excel reports to an automated reporting system using Taleo reporting tools. Key areas of reporting now include transactional reporting, analytics, planning and intelligence reporting. Further opportunities remain to enhance data integrity, analytics, linkage to other systems, and intelligence-type reporting to support business needs.