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Persisting Visualization Colors
Pyramid’s persistent color feature maintains the same color in all visualizations for selected data elements, even after slicing or removing items from a chart.…
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Custom Subtotals
Pyramid provides users flexibility over how to apply subtotals in a multi-dimensional matrix grid—using a simple point and click interface. Adding subtotals to a table or grid enables users to…
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Troubleshooting User Setup and Access Issues
Administrators occasionally need to check complicated settings and security structures for users. Sometimes the easiest and most reliable way to do so is to simply log in as that user.…
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Custom Data Connectors
Pyramid provides administrators the ability to self-configure connectors for almost any JDBC data source, providing users access to these data sources.…
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Multiple Chart Types in a Single Report
Pyramid lets users display multiple value metrics in a single report, each with its own graphical visualization, providing greater flexibility in displaying analytic content.…
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Multi-Factor Authentication
Multi-Factor Authentication Pyramid’s built-in multi-factor authentication (MFA) option adds a rock-solid layer of security to your BI application if your authentication provider does not offer it.…
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Actionable Analytics & Custom Workflows
Pyramid’s Custom Workflows provides users with new collaborative options from within the analytics platform for delivering actionable analytics that go beyond classic conversations and annotations.…
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Numeric Formatting in Pyramid
Static data format masks, used to format values in analytics) is a standard feature in most BI applications. However, data-driven formats, which change formats per value item,…
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Report Personalization
Pyramid lets users customize and personalize the labels of value metrics and hierarchies for a given data model. These customizations can be set for all sessions (present and future) or to a…
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Automated Key Driver Analysis
Pyramid’s AI-driven “Explain” feature allows users to dig directly into their source data with a single click, giving them faster insights into key drivers and influencers through automated analysis,…
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Maintaining Data Models
Data modeling is now central to all business analytic processes as companies embrace the “Decision Intelligence” paradigm. Delivering advanced data modeling options in a self-service framework is…
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Creating Parent Child Hierarchies
Pyramid excels in its’ native support for parent-child hierarchies, automatically generating hierarchical structures and providing fluid, intuitive reporting.…
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Cumulative Totals
Pyramid provides time-based cumulative measures as a method for aggregating non-additive values on a cumulative basis in a data model, allowing users to solve analytical problems typically found in…
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Pyramid 2020.20 Issues Addressed
The following list enumerates all the main bug fixes in the 2020.20 version. Back to Pyramid 2020.20 release announcement Model Fixed an issue where unexpected results were returned in Discovery…
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Implementing row level security on any database
Row-level or ‘Member-level’ security is a fundamental requirement in most analytic projects controlling which data items different users can view and analyze,…
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Time Intelligence: How date lists and ranges accelerate insights
This is the fifth blog in the series on how Pyramid brings time intelligence into analytics. In my previous blogs, I demonstrated how Pyramid provides automatic date parameters to interrogate…
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Time intelligence: Custom calculations for greater perspective
This is the fourth blog in the series on how Pyramid brings time intelligence into analytics. My previous posts on time-intelligence covered Pyramid’s powerful and automatic date-time calculation…
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Time intelligence: Date-time calculations made simple
This is the third blog in the series on how Pyramid brings time intelligence into analytics. As covered in my previous blogs on time-intelligence, adding date-time groupings into your data makes the…
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Time intelligence: Date-time groupings for better visibility
This is the second blog in the series on how Pyramid brings time intelligence into analytics. In my previous blog post, I introduced the concept of grouping amounts in data periods by adding date…
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Time intelligence: A critical element in all analytic projects
This is the first blog in a series on how Pyramid brings time intelligence to analytics. The two core challenges Date-time groupings and “buckets” Central to most analytic systems is the requirement…
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Calculating differences without code
In part 3 of my blog series on contextual calculations (see part one and part two), I cover the powerful ability to calculate differences between current and previous row values for a metric and…
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Pareto Analysis: Using the 80/20 Rule
In this second post on my three-part series on contextual calculations, I examine how Pyramid can quickly create business calculations like Pareto with just a few clicks.…
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Stop Writing Code: Running Totals Made Easy
In this part 1 of my blog series on contextual calculations, I explore running totals in Pyramid. Running or cumulative totals allow business users to see how different metrics add up from the first…
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Amplify your feedback: Pervasive Collaboration with Pyramid
In part 2 of my blog series on analytic collaboration, I cover the powerful ability to comment and annotate data models without specific reports or dashboards.…
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Actionable data insights in minutes—not hours
How to share data with colleagues with your comments on specific data Effective collaboration by multiple stakeholders is very difficult to achieve when all members utilize a desktop version for…
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