Business Reporting
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OLAP and Excel
Excel reports are just not cutting in today’s world of even larger and more complex organizations. Thankfully, there is a solution that not only gives companies the capability to access large amounts of data at the speed in which there is no “waiting around” time, but it enhances the every day use of Excel. Let’s take a look at how this is possible.
BIG Data Road Blocks to Tackle
As I think most of us would agree, Big Data has made big leaps in providing the business world with a large advantage. Luc Burgelman does a great job of identifying the three hurdles that he believes are holding businesses back from reaping the most benefit from their...
Advice for CFOs: Invest in New Technology
"Top Technology Trends for Today's CFO's" is another insightful post from a blogger we frequently feature, Timo Elliott. In it he admits that the CFO relationship with the CEO and other business executives leaves something to be desired. He recommends that CFOs...
Why Excel isn’t Enough for Businesses
The article, The File-less Organization: Why Excel Isn’t Enough for Businesses, from Dataversity.net is quite astute in the way it identifies Excel as a problem--noting that each manager gathers his or her own version of the numbers to bring to a meeting. And so in...
Create Variable-Length, Dynamic Reports Linked to Excel Tables
When you change a criteria value in a cell, Excel can use formulas and conditional formatting to expand or contract your report automatically, without macros. Here's how. by Charley Kyd, MBA Microsoft Excel MVP Excel Tables are a powerful feature introduced in Excel...
Four Ways to Leverage BI for Executive-Level Reporting
Businesses today have an increasing volume of sales performance data available from multiple sources. While most companies understand the potential value of this data, many struggle to turn it into actionable insights--especially at the executive level. Why? Because...
How To Solve Your Budgeting and Reporting Challenges
Many companies today utilize some form of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System to integrate information across various departments such as sales, finance, manufacturing etc. PowerOLAP goes beyond the integration and makes access to instant reports and...
How to Automate Reports and Perform Analytics in Excel
Crunching numbers, generating reports, consolidating data across departments—these are always very lengthy and cumbersome when done manually. To make matters worse, reports that take so lo-o-o-o-n g to complete of course turn out to have outdated information …and so,...
What is Embedded BI?
Embedded reports are a standard requirement of most applications. But users are increasingly demanding more sophisticated reporting from applications - seeking such features as custom report design, ad hoc report creation and analytics. Developers that want to embed...