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OLAP Office™ |
Value Benefit |
Ease of Integration
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Microsoft Excel |
- Spreadsheet client & modelling
- No macro development environment
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- Reduced interface and training costs
- Reduced staff dependency
- Improved productivity
- Leverage existing knowledge
- Faster adoption
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Microsoft Analysis Services & SQL Server |
- Market leading OLAP technology
- Most widely used relational database
- Automatic updating
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- Huge expanding market
- Leverage platform investments
- Faster development
- Tested integration
- Improving functionality
- Scaleable applications
- Reduced data cost
- Reduced maintenance
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Microsoft Office |
- Data links to Word and PowerPoint
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- Same as Explorer above
- More complete systems
- Better data knowledge management
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Macromedia’s RoboHelp or with Visual Studio help files |
Integrates help files |
Improved deployment times |
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Development Languages |
API integration possible |
System developers can integrate functionality |
Ease of Use
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Microsoft Excel |
- Flexible complete browser
- No specialist knowledge required (MDX or VBA programmer knowledge)
- Rapid application development (RAD)
- Template approach
- View management
- Improved general ledger integration
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- Early adoption by users
- Leverage users existing Excel modeling knowledge
- Improved data access & querying
- Improved data presentation
- Reduced cost per transaction
- Reduced system maintenance
- Reduced solution times
- Improved organization knowledge
- Reduced spreadsheet proliferation
- Automated updating for changing structural changes
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Analysis Services |
- Extended functionality
- Simplified Excel interface
- Excel interface to object model
- Excel based dimensions
- Blank cube creation
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- Early adoption by users
- Reduced solution times
- Easier development
- Easier deployment
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Finance and Analyst Capabilities
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Microsoft Excel |
- Accounting and management reporting formats and input in one view
- Improved ad-hoc analysis and querying
- Writeback
- Dynamic modelling
- Improved general ledger integration
- Journaling
- Audit Trail
- Data mining and interrogation
- Ordering, ranking, sorting, exception reporting and querying
- Allocations
- Actions
- Excel graphic integration
- Drill-through to source data
- Structure drilling options
- Data cell commenting
- Data cell hyperlinking
- Multi-lingual
- Report
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- Simpler and faster integration to general ledger and ERP applications
- Improved reporting output
- Improved data understanding
- Improved data analysis
- Improved data capture
- Improved data accuracy
- Improved data presentation
- Improve timeliness of data
- Improved performance
- Improved data mining functionality
- Exception reporting
- Improved budgeting and forecasting for ERP
- Data more available and accessible
- Flexible reporting that changes as organization structures change
- Improved decision making
- Simplified and lower risk OLAP modelling
- Better information
- Proactive and integrated systems
- Improved communication of data
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