Excel is Not a one Stop Shop for your Data Needs

Excel is Not a one Stop Shop for your Data Needs

Excel is Not a one Stop Shop for your Data Needs   “There’s nothing inherently wrong with spreadsheets; they’re excellent tools for many different jobs. But data visualization and data communication is not one of them.” – Bernard Marr   We couldn’t agree more...
OLAP and Excel

OLAP and Excel

OLAP and Excel   The Power of OLAP and Excel Should Excel be a key component of your company’s Business Performance Management (BPM) system? There’s no doubt how most IT managers would answer this question. Name IT’s top ten requirements for a successful BPM...
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...
7 Interesting Facts About OLAP History

7 Interesting Facts About OLAP History

Not too long ago businesses found it very difficult to query data out of their recently acquired relational databases. These queries were too slow to be processed by computer systems of the time as well as too inflexible to navigate the data. After trying different...