Business Intelligence
Business Intelligence (BI) refers to computer-based techniques used in spotting, digging-out, and analysing business data, such as sales revenue by products or departments or associated costs and incomes.
BI technologies provide historical, current, and predictive views of business operations. Common functions of Business Intelligence technologies are reporting, online analytical processing, analytics, data mining, business performance management, benchmarking and predictive analytics.
Business Intelligence uses technologies, processes, and applications to analyse structured data and business processes, providing management with the knowledge to make better business decisions.
XLCubed
The XLCubed Excel Edition is an Add-in product designed for end
users who are interested in adhoc analysis and formal reporting in
Excel against Analysis Services and TM1 OLAP sources.
Key Features:
- Access powerful reporting engines of Analysis Services and TM1 from within Excel
- Analyse data with full OLAP capability
- integrate Excel functions
- format reports
- create Dashboards
- multiple cell drilling and filtering
- support for Analysis Service Security, external providers, member properties, multiple cubes
Versions
XLCubed comes in two different versions, an Excel Edition and a Web
Edition.
The first is integrated in Microsoft Excel, an environment users
are already comfortable with.
The Web Edition lets you organise reports on the web and provides OLAP funtionality in your browser, without Java, ActiveX or Excel on the Server.