Know-how - Bissantz & Company

Clicks 26. February 2018

Determining standard selection dynamically in relational applications

Greetings, fellow data analysts! One of the big changes in DeltaMaster 6 is a significantly expanded backend for relational applications. These do not require a cube; instead, they make do with [...]

Clicks 21. February 2018

Determining filter options and standard selection dynamically in OLAP applications

Greetings, fellow data analysts! We are returning to the question of how to make business intelligence simpler - especially for the many report recipients who do not create their reports themselves [...]

Clicks 3. August 2017

Adapting the filter context – selecting what can be selected

Greetings, fellow data analysts! Complexity and flexibility go hand in hand in controlling applications. For instance, think of the filters with which you set the month, customer group, product [...]

Clicks 6. July 2017

Setting rights for reports and folders

Greetings, fellow data analysts! Different views for different users. In companies, when working with software and figures, people often need to work with the same type of information, but not [...]

Clicks 1. June 2017

Search functions in DeltaMaster

Greetings, fellow data analysts! In the past, when there was still a number of different search engines on the Internet, they were divided into two different categories: catalog-based and [...]

Clicks 4. May 2017

Formatting numbers in a compact and decision-oriented way

Greetings, fellow data analysts! Management information is not about the decimal places – control¬ling is not accounting. Decision-oriented management reports make an impression when they [...]

Clicks 6. April 2017

Wrapping long or wide tables

Greetings, fellow data analysts! Does this ring a bell? The report is long and the screen is wide. Scrolling is tedious and interferes with reading. Help is at hand with the Graphical Tables [...]

Clicks 2. March 2017

Setting up data input for planning – An overview

Greetings, fellow data analysts! In the last issue, we discussed how DeltaMaster can make it easier for you to input data in planning applications. Most of the functions described are available [...]

Clicks 2. February 2017

Inputting data in planning applications – An overview

Greetings, fellow data analysts! When we demonstrate how DeltaMaster can be used to analyze variances during seminars and webinars on reporting, we sometimes find ourselves being asked the question: [...]

Clicks 5. January 2017

Calculating and displaying shares automatically in Graphical Tables

Greetings, fellow data analysts! Fulfilling some of the analytic requirements from business departments is often easier said than done. Let’s assume that your new marketing director wants to [...]

Clicks 1. December 2016

Using Data from Microsoft Excel as a Measure

Greetings, fellow data analysts! When you are searching for new insights in data, you sometimes need to draw on new data – data that goes beyond what is offered in a data warehouse and, quite [...]

Clicks 3. November 2016

Predefining a Navigation for specific measures

Greetings, fellow data analysts! Let’s stick with the navigation (Pivot Navigation): Sometimes you may want to establish some sort of standard agenda within a department – a common approach [...]

Clicks 6. October 2016

Prepare graphical tables for custom navigation

Greetings, fellow data analysts! In the last issue of DeltaMaster clicks!, we showed how to use the Navigation to start an individual analysis from an existing report. This enables report recipients [...]

Clicks 1. September 2016

Navigating in Graphical Tables – ad hoc analytics for all

Greetings, fellow data analysts! Starting with DeltaMaster 6, a number of functions that previously required specific licenses are now available to all users. This includes Browse, Zoom, and Navigate [...]

Clicks 4. August 2016

Using variables to automatically publish reports for individual recipients

Greetings, fellow data analysts! If you want to send information or write a letter to more than one person, you inevitably come in contact with placeholders, fillers, or variables as they are called [...]

Clicks 7. July 2016

Designing reports for automated publishing

Greetings, fellow data analysts! In a three-part series from April through June, we presented the output formats and channels that you can use to automatically generate, update, assemble, and distribute [...]

Clicks 2. June 2016

Considerations for selecting the report format and distribution type

Greetings, fellow data analysts! Distributing reports is the one task in Business Intelligence where you can see the efficiency gains so clearly like nowhere else. Once you have created a DeltaMaster [...]

Clicks 5. May 2016

Distribution types for publishing reports

Greetings, fellow data analysts! Distributing reports is the one task in Business Intelligence where you can see the efficiency gains so clearly like nowhere else. Once you have created a DeltaMaster [...]

Clicks 7. April 2016

Report formats for publishing reports

Greetings, fellow data analysts! Distributing reports is the one task in Business Intelligence where you can see the efficiency gains so clearly like nowhere else. Once you have created a DeltaMaster [...]

Clicks 3. March 2016

Using DeltaMaster App offline on an iPhone or iPad

Greetings, fellow data analysts! If you are frequently on the road, you have probably noticed that the latest smartphone or sleekest tablet is only half as fun when you have no network service [...]

Clicks 4. February 2016

DeltaMaster 6 App for iPhone or iPad

Greetings, fellow data analysts! Mobile BI is the term for querying or displaying performance management data on the go. “On the go”, thereby, is relative as the usage of mobile devices continues [...]

Clicks 7. January 2016

Adding member properties in self-service applications

Greetings, fellow data analysts! The data required for management information is not always already available in the data warehouse. Sometimes, you have to piece it together from Excel spreadsheets [...]

Clicks 3. December 2015

Analyzing, modeling, and automating with member properties

Greetings, fellow data analysts! In The BI Survey 15, DeltaMaster ranked first within its peer group in five categories. One of them was project success, where users measured their ability to complete [...]

Clicks 5. November 2015

Providing information through member properties

Greetings, fellow data analysts! A member property is a typical example of an abstract database term that has a very practical use in applications. In DeltaMaster, member properties come to life [...]

Clicks 1. October 2015

Cell comments – Writing, administering, and aggregating comments on individual values

Greetings, fellow data analysts! As you well know, you can use Business Intelligence applications to view and analyze numbers in great detail. These numbers tell you who, what, when, where, and [...]

Clicks 3. September 2015

Grouping and classifying members individually

Greetings, fellow data analysts! One major advantage of OLAP databases is that you can create a data model that closely resembles your business structures. You typically group customers, materials [...]

Clicks 6. August 2015

Early warnings with clever KPIs

Greetings, fellow data analysts! Entrepreneurs and managers have hoped to gain competitive advantages from sophisticated analytic technologies long before Big Data started making headlines in daily [...]

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Category: Know-how

Determining standard selection dynamically in relational applications

Determining filter options and standard selection dynamically in OLAP applications

Adapting the filter context – selecting what can be selected

Setting rights for reports and folders

Search functions in DeltaMaster

Formatting numbers in a compact and decision-oriented way

Wrapping long or wide tables

Setting up data input for planning – An overview

Inputting data in planning applications – An overview

Calculating and displaying shares automatically in Graphical Tables

Using Data from Microsoft Excel as a Measure

Predefining a Navigation for specific measures

Prepare graphical tables for custom navigation

Navigating in Graphical Tables – ad hoc analytics for all

Using variables to automatically publish reports for individual recipients

Designing reports for automated publishing

Considerations for selecting the report format and distribution type

Distribution types for publishing reports

Report formats for publishing reports

Using DeltaMaster App offline on an iPhone or iPad

DeltaMaster 6 App for iPhone or iPad

Adding member properties in self-service applications

Analyzing, modeling, and automating with member properties

Providing information through member properties

Cell comments – Writing, administering, and aggregating comments on individual values

Grouping and classifying members individually

Early warnings with clever KPIs