Day 4 of 18 Days of Year-End Community Celebration!
Day 4 — Four Questions Challenge
Answer these FOUR reflection prompts about the Pyramid Analytics platform:
Favorite new feature
A challenge you solved
Something you learned
Something you hope to explore and/or learn about next year
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Favourite new feature
Sharing content - this new functionality in 2025 is a game changer for ease of use and helping keep public reporting folders cleaner.
A challenge you solved
Using Pyramid's LLM Modelling to clean a free text data feed and extract additional meaning, gathering deeper insights from unstructured data.
Something you learned
Solve Orders on formulas can complicate issues - understanding evaluation order matters more than I initially expected.
Something you hope to explore and/or learn about next year
Push deeper into Machine Learning and LLM enrichment, with projects in HR and Loss Prevention already on the roadmap. -
, would love to hear from you on your "four questions challenge" :)
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Favorite new feature
The content sharing feature is my favorite too. I think it can play a big role in helping expand a data-driven culture within organizations.
A challenge you solvedUsing Pyramid to create a distribution analysis that a customer thought was only possible in Excel. It’s the second time I’ve seen this exact use case and it reinforced how powerful it is to replace manual Excel workflows with a fully automated, repeatable analysis.
Something you learned
Pyramid continues to teach me new things. I find myself always learning about new possibilities and what can be done on Pyramid. This year I got deep into working with public API to get data analysis. Something you hope to explore and/or learn about next yearI want to continue experimenting with new use cases that can be shared with our customers and partners.
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Favourite new feature: Defiantly the runtime settings override between present and discovers that came out in 2025.01. It allows the designer the flexibility to only provide the right Ad hoc tools to each discover allowing for an easier and cleaner end user experience. A challenge you solved: Helping a client visualise differences between two plans and providing a clean an easy way to upload further plans. This means they can adjust year planning in one place with out the spreadsheet estate. Something you learned: In the ribbon bar you can turn off the boarders for mini-tabs. Not sure how I managed to miss this for so long, but it really helps keeps your dashboard canvas nice and clean. Something you hope to explore and/or learn about next year: Machine Learning is an area where I have known a little for a long time. I'm looking forward to learning more and how it can be best leveraged in Pyramid.
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Favorite new feature
The improved export to Excel which really represents a collection of enhancements collected from the customer Product Ideas Forum. As someone who used to teach Excel professionally, I continue to love the exciting new ways that Pyramid integrates with it. A challenge you solvedPushed Pyramid's distribution capabilities when it comes to report bursting and inline distribution.
Something you learnedI recently learned the power of Flow Visual, Page Triggers, and Repeaters when developing boardroom quality publications.
Something you hope to explore and/or learn about next yearFormulate! This is an area of the platform that I really want to explore and incorporate more deeply into my workflows.