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EPM in the Cloud…and Solving the DIY Instinct of Spreadsheet Users

EPM in the Cloud…and Solving the DIY Instinct of Spreadsheet Users

Little more than 5 years ago, prospects would balk at the idea of working with business solutions in the Cloud.
Does anyone else remember? Putting key company information, especially financials, into the “Cloud” was considered too risky. In addition, it was natural to ask, How easily can I reach my data when it’s in the Cloud, as compared to reaching it in my local environment?
Accessing data through a browser seemed much shakier than simply double-clicking on

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If You Think OLAP is Obsolete…  Think Again!

If You Think OLAP is Obsolete… Think Again!

OK, so I’ll give nay-sayers of OLAP a little bit of credit, OLAP (historically) can be frustrating.  Especially when some implementations are hardly what we consider to be “online”.  Most of what people are calling OLAP technology is not really connected in a live way to the data source.  There is a batch process to update the data from relational source to a Proprietary OLAP cube.

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Excel is Not a One-stop Shop for your Data Needs

Excel is Not a One-stop Shop for your Data Needs

Excel is everywhere and it has proven to be a valuable resource to every company across the globe. The problem is that many companies are using spreadsheets as their main line of communication internally. Excel is great at displaying all of the raw data you could possibly dream of, just ask any Data Analyst, who eats, sleeps and dreams of never-ending spreadsheets.

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OLAP and Excel

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.

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Take a Moment to Reconsider OLAP

Take a Moment to Reconsider OLAP

We are loving this article by Neil Raden on diginomica.com, I'm Feeling Sentimental about OLAP and You Should Too. In it Raden makes the case that the OLAP tech that existed in the 90's plus the new strides that have been made in recent years as far as scale, speed,...

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