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Troubleshooting your Sage Intelligence errors made easy
No matter what time of day it is, it’s never a good time for Sage Intelligence errors. What can you do to resolve these errors on your own? And, what can you do next? Sage Intelligence has made it possible to triage these issues, and if you can’t figure it out on your own—you can […]
How to calculate Sales Tax/ VAT using PowerPivot Measures in Excel
In a previous tip, we showed you how to set up a PivotTable using PowerPivot. You’re now going to learn how you can easily calculate Sales Tax/ VAT using the Measures feature in the PowerPivot tab. If you’re the business’s accountant, you may want to analyze the Sales Tax/ VAT that will be paid on the products […]
What’s the deal with Sage Intelligence and data sorting?
Have you ever run out a report only to find the need to change the sorting of a specific field once the output is in Excel? This can be quite taxing, especially if you run multiple reports with a lot of data on a regular basis, and if you need to sort multiple columns on […]
How reporting in the cloud with Sage Intelligence can change the way you do business
Do you know when the internet started? The very first spark of the idea was ignited in 1962 (53 years ago), when the concept of a “galactic network” was first discussed. The idea was a globally interconnected set of computers through which everyone could quickly access data and programs. Sound familiar? What was once a […]
Anything is possible with perseverance (and peanut butter)
Near the end of the 2017, I read an interesting article by Microsoft’s Brad Smith, which was written as part of celebrating the completion of a 4,000-mile-long, sub-sea, communications cable between North America and Spain. The laying of this cable is an impressive achievement, as well as the fact that it can apparently transmit eight times […]
Here’s how to run a report out to PDF
In our last tip, we showed you how to save a copy of your Excel workbook to file when running a report. If you’d like to catch up on it, then take a look here. Did you know that in addition to saving your reports in an Excel format, you have the option to run […]
SMEs need insight into data as much as big companies—if not more
In a climate of economic volatility, changing consumers, and globalized competition, small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) perhaps need access to accurate, actionable business insight into data even more than bigger enterprises do. Most SMEs are operating on tight margins and don’t have endless reservoirs of cash and credit. They need up-to-the-minute information about trends in […]
Dashboards: All your vital information in one place
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 […]
Financial statements: Three useful indicators and what they say about your business
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 […]
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