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Excel-based reporting and ERP

Excel-based reporting and ERP

By John Donagher on May 28, 2014

Excel-based reporting solutions are becoming a bigger feature of the suite of Business Intelligence (BI) tools offered by midrange ERP vendors. It’s a trend that seems to make sense given the ubiquity of Excel, but could there be a downside? The rise of Excel-based reporting tools I’ve recently attended system demos for MS Dynamics NAV […]

Posted in Application Software, Your POV | Tagged Analytics, biznet, enterprise applications, Epicor, erp, excel, jet reports, microsoft | 1 Response

Microsoft Corporate Vice President Quentin Clark discusses data, data platforms, and more

Microsoft Corporate Vice President Quentin Clark discusses data, data platforms, and more

By Paul Miller on April 2, 2014

The Data Platform Group at Microsoft does a lot, from SQL Server and their Hadoopey HDInsight offering through to Business Intelligence and analytics capabilities which sit in or on top of the humble Excel spreadsheet. I’ve touched upon pieces of this whole before, in a 2009 podcast on Azure with Amitabh Srivastava (then Corporate VP […]

Posted in Platforms | Tagged azure data market, BI, big data, Business Intelligence, cloud computing, data markets, data platform group, Enterprise Computing, excel, microsoft, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft SQL Server, open data, Podcast, quentin clark, sql server

Adaptive Planning Ups the Performance Management Ante

Adaptive Planning Ups the Performance Management Ante

By Ben Kepes on November 9, 2011

I’ve written in the past about Adaptive Planning the corporate performance management (CPM) vendor that has been enjoying stellar growth off the back of more widespread adoption of cloud applications within mid sized organizations. I recently spoke to Adaptive Planning to get a run down on their upcoming release and corporate performance to date. First […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged Adaptive Planning, Business performance management, cloud computing, excel, IBM, netsuite, SAP AG

Shrinking Balls

Shrinking Balls

By John Taschek on February 10, 2011

In my last post, I wrote about the sentiment analysis of the Super Bowl and how brands are impacted by the real-time stream. That stream stimulates a Mean Girls phenomenon that causes people to be more passionate and start to bully as they become more popular. I know some analysts…

Posted in Application Software, Business, Enterprise, Featured Posts, Mobile, Trends & Concepts | Tagged @jtaschek, analysts, bullying, chatter, cloud computing, cloudblog, Constellation, excel, facebook, google, iPad/Apple, mean girls, microsoft, platform, ray wang, real-time, salesforce.com, shakespeare, Taschek, twitter, Weblogs

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