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Pyramid's Product Development Process
What should go into the next release? We're working on a number of new 'mega' features for Pyramid right now - you may have seen the announcements about Tabulate and Solve - and there will be lots…
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Pyramid's game-changing NLQ Chat Bot lets users analyze data in whole new way
Chat bots are everywhere these days. While commonly associated with customer experience use cases, their application extends beyond answering basic customer questions.…
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Gaining control of your data with Master Flows
Data preparation processes (ETL) frequently require workflow capabilities to conditionally trigger other processes and send notifications (email, text, etc.) when a task has completed.…
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Cube design tip
When a Dimension name is identical to an Attribute name, The dimension property 'HierarchyUniqueNameStyle' should be set to 'IncludeDimensionName'. Currently, without this property set to 'include...…
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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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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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De-Duplicating Data Sets with Python
Introduction There are occasions when it is necessary to de-duplicate records before further transformations are required and before loading into the data model target database server,…
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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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How to build data-driven infographics that tell a better story
Data-driven infographics can be a highly effective way to help users learn new information. The more graphically intuitive an analysis, the quicker and easier it is for users to understand and gain…
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Real self-service BI for SAP BW and HANA for Pyramid Customers
Pyramid is certified by SAP to interoperate with SAP BW/4HANA. Pyramid is pending certification by SAP to interoperate with SAP HANA. Pyramid also became an official member of the SAP® PartnerEdge®…
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How dynamic KPIs provide better views into constantly changing datasets
KPIs play a crucial role by providing an instant and intuitive graphic view of a business’s key performance metrics. In order to effectively create KPIs,…
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Delivering impact: Report bursting and distribution with Pyramid
Bursting analytic reports to recipients is still a very common “real-world” requirement—and it’s still a “real-world” headache for many organizations who depend on published reports to communicate…
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Smart Insights on ANY Data Source
While a good report turns data into information, artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform information into insights—without human intervention.…
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The seven success factors of time intelligence
Date-time analysis is a central pillar of modern analytics. Every business needs to track progress over periods of time, and more importantly, compare and evaluate that progress between two time…
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Embedding with native HTML5
Companies increasingly need to include analytical content into their own applications and workflows, instead of having to access a separate application.…
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Union: Adding Attributes to a Node
How do you Map Your Measures? You have numbers accrued in a database or excel for months, but nobody has taken an interest in them. You want to unleash the can of worms, so to speak,…
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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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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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Decision Intelligence Blog: Leveraging Pyramid Analytics to Migrate to Data Mesh Architecture (Guest Blog)
Leveraging Pyramid Analytics to Migrate to Data Mesh Architecture This Blog has been written by @Mastaneh Nikroo from our Partner Reply. In today’s world,…
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First-class Python integration in Pyramid
Python has rapidly become developers’ top choice for machine learning and deep learning projects. Machine learning allows users to feed massive amounts of data into a computer algorithm to get…
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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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Faster processing and reduced resource consumption with incremental data refreshing
It’s very common for organizations to possess large datasets that only require periodic updates on a smaller subset of the data. In other words, only new data or data that has been recently updated…
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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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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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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…
Blog Articles on functionality & techniques.