How Kantar Saved 17,000 Hours a Year by Automating Report Generation — Mammoth
Market Research & Consulting · United States

How Kantar saved 17,000 hours a year by automating client report generation

Replacing manual, error-prone report creation with automated, reusable workflows, delivering insights 75% faster.

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Market Research & Consulting
About the company

A premier market research and consulting firm delivering data-driven insights globally

Kantar North America is a premier market research and consulting firm known for delivering data-driven insights and actionable recommendations. Focused on quality and innovation, Kantar continuously evolves its methodologies by integrating advanced technologies to improve research delivery and client satisfaction.

At Kantar's scale, consistency is everything. Clients depend on reports that look, feel, and perform the same way, every time, across every team. When that consistency breaks down, trust breaks down too.

The challenge

Highly templated reports built by hand: slow, inconsistent, and impossible to scale

Kantar's analysts produced large volumes of highly templated client reports, each following strict formatting standards. But the process for creating them was almost entirely manual. Every report meant hours of repetitive data transformation, formatting, and validation work before anything could go to the client.

The manual approach introduced inconsistencies that eroded trust in the outputs. Formatting errors crept in. Delivery timelines slipped. And as client volume grew, the team had no scalable way to keep pace. The bottleneck was baked into the process itself.

The solution

Reusable automated workflows: consistent reports, delivered faster, at scale

Mammoth gave Kantar's teams the tools to automate the entire report generation pipeline without any coding:

  • Deploy automated workflows to harmonise data across multiple sources
  • Standardise and consolidate disparate datasets into a unified, templated format
  • Enable non-technical analysts to manage and update pipelines independently
  • Build reusable workflow templates that scale across teams and client engagements
  • Eliminate manual formatting steps, ensuring 100% consistency on every output
The outcome

17,000 hours saved. 100% consistent. Delivered 75% faster.

  • 17,000 hours saved annually through workflow automation across reporting teams
  • 100% consistency in report formatting: every output matches the template, every time
  • 75% faster insight delivery: from data ingestion to client-ready report
  • 60% less manual work in data preparation, through automated harmonisation of sources
  • A scalable solution adopted across multiple teams: reusable, not rebuilt each time

Mammoth's platform has significantly enhanced our reporting processes, delivering consistency and efficiency across our operations.

Director of Data Design
Kantar North America
The transformation · From manual report creation to automated, consistent delivery at scale
BEFORE Manual · inconsistent · 3–5 hrs/report AFTER Automated · consistent · right first time CLIENT B · v7_FINAL2 Different template Manual formatting Inconsistent totals REVISION REQUESTED CLIENT A · v12_SEND Wrong font Missing header Column mismatch v1 · v3_rev · v4_FINAL v5_ACTUAL_FINAL · v6 v12_SEND ← current SENT BACK BY CLIENT 3 to 5 hrs per report · errors every cycle Every client rebuilt from scratch · no reusable template MAMMOTH Reusable workflows Reporting Pipeline · Automated REPORT TIME 75% ▼ faster CONSISTENCY 100% template match THROUGHPUT 40% ▲ more reports REPORTS · ALL CONSISTENT CLIENT A Template v1 · auto-applied · validated CLIENT B Template v1 · auto-applied · validated CLIENT C Template v1 · auto-applied · validated Self-serve No rework Right first time.
Before
Manual · inconsistent · 3–5 hrs/report
CLIENT B · v7_FINAL2
Different template · Manual formatting · Inconsistent totals
REVISION REQUESTED
CLIENT A · v12_SEND
Wrong font · Missing header · Column mismatch
v1 · v3_rev · v4_FINAL · v5_ACTUAL_FINAL · v12_SEND ← current
SENT BACK BY CLIENT
3 to 5 hrs per report · errors every cycle
Every client rebuilt from scratch · no reusable template
After
Automated · consistent · right first time
Kantar · Reporting Pipeline LIVE
REPORT TIME
75%
↓ faster
CONSISTENCY
100%
template match
THROUGHPUT
40%
▲ more
REPORTS · ALL CONSISTENT
CLIENT ATemplate v1 · validated
CLIENT BTemplate v1 · validated
CLIENT CTemplate v1 · validated
Self-
serve
No
rework
Right first
time.

The Mammoth advantage

Why Mammoth worked for Kantar

Three things made the difference, and they're the same three things every research and analytics team tells us about.

Scale without cost

17,000 hours of manual work eliminated annually. Reusable workflow templates mean every new client engagement takes minutes to set up, not days.

Consistency

100% formatting consistency across every report. The same automated rules apply every time. No manual formatting, no human error, no client callbacks.

Analyst independence

Non-technical analysts manage and update pipelines directly. No engineering dependency, no backlog. Teams move at the speed of the work, not the speed of IT.