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Although most IT departments get nervous and will tell you, "Excel is not really a BI tool", a recent breakthrough in data handling, called Multiple Source Simple Output (MSSO) has changed all that. MSSO together with its Structured Data for Excel architecture (SD4E) have made a quantum leap beyond the now-outmoded, cumbersome, Server Dependent (including Server Dependent EII) technologies. MSSO/SD4E transforms Excel into an incredibly powerful, versatile, agile and completely secure Business Intelligence tool, capable of quickly and easily manipulating and analyzing live data directly from multiple, disparate data-sources, generating even the most complex and sophisticated analytical reports with a simple keystroke. Scalability for the business user is almost limitless, data flow is completely controllable and secure, and there is no need for additional data and network security structures. What's more, fully-flexible, completely customizable, eye-popping dashboards can be put in place by any end-user who has a basic understanding of Excel. Even though software built with MSSO/SD4E technology from the ground up yields the best of all worlds, MSSO/SD4E can also be employed to enhance almost any existing BI system which is now in place.
This White Paper not only addresses the breakthrough of MSSO/SD4E, it also tells you how you can easily and instantly begin taking advantage of this powerful, yet surprisingly low-cost technology. Whether you have BI tools already in place or are looking to upgrade, MSSO/
SD4E technology will greatly increase the productivity and efficiency of your enterprise.
Transforming Excel into a powerful, versatile, completely secure BI data-mining, analytics and reporting tool... And all of this with IT's blessing!
Most Excel users don't realize the incredible power and almost unlimited potential of Excel for unequalled speed and quality of performance in handling complex BI analytics and reporting tasks. In fact, right out of the box, Excel is a sophisticated and powerful analysis tool capable of multidimensional analysis, virtually limitless business scalability (no, it is NOT limited to a mere 65,000 records!), filtering on the fly, ad hoc querying, and elaborate dashboarding. Although Excel has all of this power and potential which can be applied to BI, its capabilities for this application have remained inaccessible to end-users simply because of the inherently cumbersome architecture of existing Server Dependent technologies which, by their very nature, have placed severe limitations upon Excel. For this and other reasons we'll address in a moment, IT departments will often tell you, "Excel is not really a BI tool". However, a recent breakthrough in data handling technology, called Multiple Source Simple Output (MSSO) has changed all that...
Excel Can Now REALLY Excel
MSSO is a proprietary architecture which allows for smooth, seamless and secure data integration, taking data directly from disparate sources and, by means of its companion SD4E technology, makes it ready to drop directly into Excel by putting it into a single data set which Excel can instantly recognize. All of this without having to first pass through any kind of intermediary server. MSSO/SD4E is truly server-less, providing direct access to live, raw data. No server sits between the data and the end-user yet data remains completely secure.
Until the introduction of MSSO/SD4E technology, the real limiting factor, the fundamental crux of the problem with Excel for BI applications, has been twofold:
1) the challenge of getting the data up to Excel in an Excel friendly format so that Excel can readily use it; and,
2) the added difficulty in maintaining data integrity and secure access to data.
The true ad hoc query
Imagine having the ability to securely enter any number of disparate databases, having the freedom to pick and choose any fields of raw, live data (as many fields as you want) and then drop them straight into your laptop or desktop computer for analysis in Excel. What's more, imagine that you had the freedom to later include other, live data fields on a whim and, instead of having to call in a consultant or your IT department for additional programming and assistance, you simply add these fields to your fully customizable dashboard on the fly. MSSO/SD4E enables you to do this kind of flexible, instantly refreshable, true ad hoc querying.
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