 You and your team have a specific goal to meet and a series of tasks to execute. To reach your goal as quickly as possible, you'll want your team engaged in productive activities. First, access to accurate, timely information is important for collaboration. You can then gather the insights needed to take decisive action. Unfortunately, many teams are burdened with unproductive, inefficient activities that make it more difficult to reach the goal. One survey found that employees spend 50% of their workday engaged in essential but unproductive tasks. Our customers speak of three big challenges that drain productivity from their team. The first challenge is scattered information. It's literally everywhere, in multiple applications, in notebooks, in spreadsheets, on someone's iPad. Teams spend time and energy trying to find the information they need. According to the Paperless Project, U.S. managers spend an average of four weeks a year searching for or waiting on papers that are mis-filed, mis-labeled, or just missing. That's like taking your 12-month calendar, ripping out one month, and throwing it away. Another challenge is inefficient or ad hoc processes. You are still heading toward the goal, but the workflow is error-prone and time-consuming. In fact, a LinkedIn Records Management Professionals Group reports that 67% of data loss is directly related to user blunders, making human error 30 times more menacing than viruses as the leading cause of data loss. Technology could help you overcome some of these problems, but often you are choosing between simple apps and complex enterprise applications, neither of which fit your specific needs. And your applications may not cover all your devices. Perhaps iPads are cut off, or your applications work on Windows but not on Mac. You will eventually reach your goal, but by then costs have gone up, your risk of failure has increased, and there's no guarantee you'll be any more successful next time. What if you could consolidate, align, and access every piece of information that is important to your task? What if you could build a custom solution that automates best practices for your team, ensures efficient workflow, and is the right size for your organization, working across all your devices? Your team will then be able to collaborate effectively, to gather the insights they need, to take the appropriate action, and complete the tasks to achieve your goal. This is why team leaders like you are choosing to work with FileMaker. Download a free trial of FileMaker Pro, and get FileMaker Go free from the App Store, and see how FileMaker can help you create the solutions you need to transform your business.