How Bulungula Incubator reduced reporting times by 70%

Ryan Banks, the Data and Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) manager at the BI developed an in-house data management system for business monitoring and evaluation but it required a heavy manual workload. The system's effectiveness heavily relied on the consistent movement of data among disparate siloed platforms.

The inefficiency associated with manual data transfer significantly impeded the organization's capacity to leverage its existing data optimally. The process of manually inputting and capturing data was not only time-intensive but also susceptible to errors. Employees had to spend a considerable amount of their time on mundane data-related activities. To do that, they had to limit their vital, in-person community development activities, such as stakeholder engagement and delivering training on how to use the M&E system.

Coupler.io has revolutionized Bulungula Incubator's data management processes. It enabled smooth and automated data transfers from dozens of Airtable bases and into BigQuery. Bulungula is now able to fuel their Google Looker Studio dashboards with the fresh data with no effort on their end and close to zero manual work.

The dashboards they build on top of these integrations empower program managers to remotely monitor program statuses and operations in the field. At the same time, their management team can now retrieve comprehensive insights and make informed decisions about the projects with ease.