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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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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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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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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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Parent-Child Hierarchy Security
Pyramid offers flexible, intuitive security for parent-child hierarchies, providing role-based control over how members are viewed and aggregated within hierarchies.…
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2020.10 Feature Focus: Data Catalog – Self-Building Capabilities (Part 1)
2020.10 is the latest release from Pyramid Analytics. It extends the functionality introduced in our major 2020 release. This is one in a series of posts that highlights some of the major new…
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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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Pyramid's Calculation Engine Explained
Pyramid includes a sophisticated, multi-tiered calculation engine designed to handle the full spectrum of calculations often required in solving analytic questions and problems.…
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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: 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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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: 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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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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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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2020.10 Feature Focus Datavard Glue: SAP ERP Data Modeling
2020.10 is the latest release from Pyramid Analytics. It extends the functionality introduced in our major 2020 release. This is one in a series of posts that highlights some of the major new…
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2020.10 Feature Focus: Audit Trail Framework
2020.10 is the latest release from Pyramid Analytics. It extends the functionality introduced in our major 2020 release. This is one in a series of posts that highlights some of the major new…
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2020.10 Feature Focus: Present Lite
2020.10 is the latest release from Pyramid Analytics. It extends the functionality introduced in our major 2020 release. This is one in a series of posts that highlights some of the major new…
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2020.10 Feature Focus: Data Catalog - Toolkit (Part 2)
2020.10 is the latest release from Pyramid Analytics. It extends the functionality introduced in our major 2020 release. This is one in a series of posts that highlights some of the major new…
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2020.10 Feature Focus: Flow Grids and Flow Charts
2020.10 is the latest release from Pyramid Analytics. It extends the functionality introduced in our major 2020 release. This is one in a series of posts that highlights some of the major new…
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2020.10 Feature Focus: Ragged Asymmetric Queries
The ragged query feature in Pyramid helps users create highly complex views of data that are extremely difficult to achieve with a standard BI tool. It allows users to easily “laser” out content…
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