It's an old saying but also very true. Let's say you have a form to document checks on ingredients being used in a small food factory and you fill in 10 forms per day. recording date, time, supplier, ingedient, batch number and if there was a qualty issue hat it was and what was done about it. Oh - and who performed the check. It's one thing to have records of all the relevant data, but data alone is useless. What you really need is information, without it you're just working blind.
.ECOForms stores data in a modern filing system in which everything is indexed so that it con be found quickly. You specify what your looking for using our query by example system that lets you narrow down the data and then export the results of the search to, say, Microsoft Excel where you can then perform summaries, extra calculations or create graphs. Your data can also be expotered in a format that is recognised by many database systems.
Using Microsoft Excel (or any of the free substitutes like Libre Office) to turn your exported data into presentable form is a no-brainer.