Relational applications do not require a cube; instead, they make do with tables from a relational database such as Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, SAP HANA, IBM DB2, or MySQL. Relational databases are [...]

We are returning to the question of how to make business intelligence simpler – especially for the many report recipients who do not create their reports themselves, but instead are provided with interactive [...]

Complexity and flexibility go hand in hand in controlling applica­tions. For instance, think of the filters with which you set the month, customer group, product group, cost center, etc. to which reports [...]

Different views for different users. In companies, when working with software and figures, people often need to work with the same type of information, but not necessarily with the exact same information [...]

In the past, when there was still a number of different search engines on the Internet, they were divided into two different categories: catalog-based and index-based. Catalogs such as DMOZ, Yahoo, and [...]

Management information is not about the decimal places – control¬ling is not accounting. Decision-oriented management reports make an impression when they report on an appropriate scale, i.e. in thousands [...]

Does this ring a bell? The report is long and the screen is wide. Scrolling is tedious and interferes with reading. Help is at hand with the Graphical Tables from DeltaMaster 6: They support table wrapping [...]

In the last issue, we discussed how DeltaMaster can make it easier for you to input data in planning applications. Most of the functions described are available in all applications without having to be [...]

When we demonstrate how DeltaMaster can be used to analyze variances during seminars and webinars on reporting, we sometimes find ourselves being asked the question: Where do you actually get the planned [...]

Fulfilling some of the analytic requirements from business departments is often easier said than done. Let’s assume that your new marketing director wants to know what the current demand profile is [...]

When you are searching for new insights in data, you sometimes need to draw on new data – data that goes beyond what is offered in a data warehouse and, quite possibly, will only be collected for a [...]

Sometimes you may want to establish some sort of standard agenda within a department – a common approach how data should be analyzed and discussed. With DeltaMaster, report editors can predefine a series [...]

In the last issue of DeltaMaster clicks!, we showed how to use the Navigation to start an individual analysis from an existing report. This enables report recipients to work with the data on their own [...]

The DeltaMaster 6 functions for all users include Browse, Zoom, and Navigate. The Navigation, in particular, has what it takes to drastically simplify Business Intelligence so it can play a more active [...]

If you want to send information or write a letter to more than one person, you inevitably come in contact with placeholders, fillers, or variables as they are called in the world of data processing. Letter [...]

In a three-part series from April through June, we presented the output formats and channels that you can use to automatically generate, update, assemble, and distribute reports. Many of you responded [...]

Distributing reports is the one task in Business Intelligence where you can see the efficiency gains so clearly like nowhere else. Once you have created a DeltaMaster application or analysis session [...]

Distributing reports is the one task in Business Intelligence where you can see the efficiency gains so clearly like nowhere else. Once you have created a DeltaMaster application or analysis session [...]

Distributing reports is the one task in Business Intelligence where you can see the efficiency gains so clearly like nowhere else. Once you have created a DeltaMaster application or analysis session [...]

If you are frequently on the road, you have probably noticed that the latest smartphone or sleekest tablet is only half as fun when you have no network service – and that seems to happen more often [...]

Mobile BI is the term for querying or displaying performance management data on the go. “On the go”, thereby, is relative as the usage of mobile devices continues to grow within companies: People [...]

The data required for management information is not always already available in the data warehouse. Sometimes, you have to piece it together from Excel spreadsheets, Access files, or other sources at [...]

In The BI Survey 15, DeltaMaster ranked first within its peer group in five categories. One of them was project success, where users measured their ability to complete projects on time and on budget [...]

A member property is a typical example of an abstract database term that has a very practical use in applications. In DeltaMaster, member properties come to life as images in reports, weight or size informa­tion [...]

As you well know, you can use Business Intelligence applications to view and analyze numbers in great detail. These numbers tell you who, what, when, where, and how much – but never why. This answer [...]

One major advantage of OLAP databases is that you can create a data model that closely resembles your business structures. You typically group customers, materials, teams, cost centers, etc. into hierarchies [...]

Entrepreneurs and managers have hoped to gain competitive advantages from sophisticated analytic technologies long before Big Data started making headlines in daily newspapers. Our experience from countless [...]