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A dashboard is a business tool that displays a set of metrics, KPIs and other relevant information to a business user. Dashboards are here to stay because of their simplicity and self-service capabilities. And recently, Microsoft has made dashboards even more relevant, visual and efficient to use through Power BI. Haven’t heard of it? Here’s […]
Well-prepared financial statements contain an incredible amount of timely and revealing information about your business’ financial position. What are its strengths? Where are the vulnerabilities and challenges? Is the business making money? Savvy executives use the information on financial statements—most notably the balance sheet, income statement, and statement of cash flows—to drive decisions and chart […]
According to research, 35% of organizations indicate that demand for expedited financial information delivery is their top pressure. Financial analytics and financial reporting, are valuable sources for informed decision-making across an organization, and should be part of your company’s analytics strategy. By leveraging a financial analysis and reporting solution integrated with your business management solution, […]
“When are you introducing user-defined functions for Excel?” This was the big question we had for Microsoft back in the middle of this year (2017). Specifically for us, this meant user-defined functions that were defined in Javascript, and made available through our web-based Excel add-in for the cloud version of Sage Intelligence. We’d asked this […]
Assuming your business already uses an integrated software system, you will also need reporting or business intelligence tools that can extract, clean, and transform the data into a format that’s meaningful for users. New tools and technologies are emerging to make information come alive, including data visualization, process simulation, and predictive techniques. By taking advantage […]
Multiple users can effectively work on a spreadsheet by sharing it, and then collaborating on it. Edits can be made simultaneously by team members, thus having a continuously updated version of the spreadsheet available all the time. In this way, version control is enforced, and duplicate work is eliminated. Applies To: Microsoft® Excel® for Windows […]
Sage Intelligence allows you to report on data from different companies in a single report to obtain a holistic view of your organization and allow you to carry out more detailed comparative analysis. The primary way to do this is through a Consolidation Report that uses a Consolidation Connection. Once a Consolidation Connection has been […]
I read an interesting article the other day about how a novel targeted at young, single females and housewives wasn’t selling as well as expected. When the publisher looked deeper into its sales data, it found that this market segment made up only a small portion of readers – and that the majority of buyers […]
Sometimes when working in Excel, you may want to compare two versions of a workbook to see what was changed. It could be an issue such as totals that are manually entered instead of formula calculated that you want to check. You can use Microsoft Spreadsheet Compare to run a report on the differences, and […]
Mobility has changed the way we work—especially for businesses that depend on personnel not working at a desk or in and office. When asked how “anytime, anywhere” connectivity helps business leaders be more efficient, they typically respond with three answers: convenience, communication, or collaboration. Convenience When operations or field personnel need to call office staff […]
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