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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: 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: 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: 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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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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2020.10 Feature Focus: Calendar Slicer
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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Creating an IMDB Time column in the Model designer
In the current version of Pyramid (2020.10), the Time type column is not supported when creating an IMDB model. As a result, it will appear in a Discovery report but it will not be possible to…
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How to create a Week to Date or Parallel Periods list, for a week that starts on Sunday when using a sql data source
Week to Date, using a specific date: 1. Create a new List in Formulate 2. Drag ‘Week to Date’ into the canvas, choose a date under Pick a Member: 3. Set the Day of the week to start from 7,…
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Creating a Date Time intervals in Data modeling tool
When creating a SQL based model, you can create a time interval column using a custom "Date time" type column (i.e 12:00,12:15,12:30,12:45, 13:00). To do this,…
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How to apply Cumulative Function (Percent of Total) of rows/columns in Charts.
The "Percent of Total" calculation is a context calculation that is designed to factor the "shape" of the query in determining the scope of the calculation.…
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Pyramid 2020.10 Issues Addressed
Back to Pyramid 2020.10 release announcement The following list enumerates all the main bug fixes and small features added to the 2020.10 version. Application Fixes and Features Model Fixed an issue…
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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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Database Write Back
Pyramid is often asked when they will add a "write back" option to the tools. Often such functionality is centered around capturing end-user data input or budgeting and planning applications.…
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Improving Windows Authentication and Kerberos Delegation
As of version 2020.04.011, Pyramid will offer new settings to streamline Windows Authentication SSO implementations. This will offer the benefit of Win Auth and Kerberos delegation where and when…
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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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Pyramid 2020.02 (Service Pack 2) Addressed Issues
Pyramid 2020.02 (Service Pack 2) release announcement Bug Fixes Admin Fixed an issue where adding users from a CSV file caused duplication Fixed an issue where the Save Shareable Content for a…
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Pyramid 2020.01 (Service Pack 1) Addressed Issues
Pyramid 2020.01.121 (Service Pack 1) release announcement Bug Fixes Admin Fixed a logging issue related to long MDX field names Fixed an issue where the number of licenses seen in the admin console…
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Pyramid 2020 Addressed Issues
Pyramid 2020 release announcement Bug Fixes Admin Fixed an issue where a Tenant cannot be deleted Fixed an issue where the data sources Tenant shows as "Unknown" Fixed an issue where the Content…
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How to connect Google Sheets to Pyramid
Pyramid can model and blend numerous complex data sources for basic or advanced analysis. The quick tutorial below shows how you can use Pyramid to access and import data stored in a Google Sheet,…
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Pyramid Usage Model and Analysis
Using Pyramid to analyze itself. The following document describes how to build a data model using Pyramid’s database repository as a data source to be able to analyze content usage and performance…
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Analysis of streaming data with Kafka.
Introduction What if I don’t want to, or can’t wait for data to appear in a datawarehouse before I can analyse it? There obvious use cases like IoT, but every organisation can benefit from…
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Calculating Moving Averages in Pyramid IMDB
Introduction When looking at trends over time, there is often the need to smooth out the individual values by using a Moving Average (MAv). The MAv smooths out the peaks and troughs,…
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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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