Business Intelligence and Data Analytics Blog
Information and Discussions on Business Intelligence, Data Analysis, and Management featuring: Strategies, Best Practices, PARIS Product Tips and News
Escaping Excel Hell Without Abandoning Excel
Due to frustrated Excel Users who constantly have to merge changes and don’t have the needed flexibility with Excel Spreadsheets, many users choose to leave Excel to avoid Excel Hell. PowerOLAP presents an Add in solution that works with Excel Spreadsheets to allow users to escape Excel Hell while still using Excel.
OLAP VS OLTP
Comparison between two Business Intelligence (BI) technologies: OLTP (Online Transaction Processing) and OLAP (Online Analytical Processing).
The Future of Data Management With Olation
The future of data management lies in the fusion of database technologies. Olation has pioneered this by joining relational and multidimensional database technologies (OLTP and OLAP) to serve as a one-stop solution for all data management needs. OLAP or Online Analytical Processing is an approach to answering multi-dimensional analytical queries swiftly.
Why do you need a Business Intelligence (BI) Solution?
With the amount of data stored by companies growing exponentially, it is no surprise that finding the right data management solution continues to show up on the priority list of Chief Information Officers (CIO). Data has to be secure and distributed efficiently for important up-to-date business decisions.
(Online) Analytical Processing, by Any Other Name?
We at PARIS Technologies have been audaciously proud proponents of OLAP for a long time. We named our initial product PowerOLAP. Released over 10 years, it is still considered by many as “the most Excel-user friendly” technology on the market. You could say that we’ve...
PowerOLAP Q&A
Folks, there is a LOT you can do with PowerOLAP. Even people who have been using it for years aren't fully aware of all the capabilities available within PowerOLAP. Perhaps you are a user of PowerOLAP but you generally access the same reports all the time. In this...
Analyzing World Cup Data using OLAP
Yes, it's Maradona, Maracana, and Multidimensionality Using PowerOLAP to Analyze World Cup Data It started with a limerick. Exactly why I decided to express in a 5-line poem the ridiculously named “hand of God” incident, when Diego Maradona punched the ball into...
2 Exciting Projects in the Works at PARIS
Here at PARIS, our skilled developers are always pounding away at new innovations. We recently released a new product, Time Manager Live, which represents much of what our team has been hard at work developing. If you haven't checked it out, it is definitely worth a...
Constructing an Optimized Project Performance Management Solution
With the World Cup over--and what a great final match it was!--Brazilians (once they get over their team's collapse) will surely refocus on the huge cost overruns and un-readiness of the building projects associated with the event. The projects you manage may not...
PARIS Technologies Launches Time Manager Live™—Timesheet and Project Manager for Microsoft Outlook® Calendars.
Doylestown, PA June 9, 2014. PARIS Technologies, a leader in business technology innovation today announced the launch of Time Manager Live™—a time, project, and resource management solution that utilizes Microsoft Outlook® for LIVE reporting and automatic timesheet...