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Discover how to transform bloated business intelligence operations through this 20-minute conference talk that addresses one of data teams' most persistent yet underexplored challenges: report proliferation and its impact on organizational trust. Learn from Sandy Steiger, Head of Advanced Analytics & Automation (formerly at TQL), as she details the strategic approach her team used to reduce their reporting infrastructure from 3,000 reports to fewer than 500 while simultaneously improving data visibility, accelerating issue resolution, and enhancing cloud agility. Explore practical implementation strategies for data lineage tracking, automated detection systems, and the deployment of Pantomath, an automated data operations platform that delivered unexpected benefits beyond initial expectations. Understand how proactive upstream issue identification enabled the team to detect problems before Microsoft's own systems, prevent major downstream failures, and establish the credibility essential for earning business stakeholder trust. Gain actionable insights for leveraging automation to drive more intelligent, rapid decision-making processes throughout your organization, complete with a comprehensive playbook for implementing these transformative data operations strategies.