Features
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Data Access Connect easily to all common data sources |
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| Key Features | Benefits |
| Simple, non-technical data source connection wizard that enables drag-n-drop, cut-n-paste or remote connections. | Quickly get into the flow of analysis and presentation. No more SQL frustration. |
| Compatibility with text/flat files, Excel, Access, SQLServer2000, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, DB2, Sybase and any other ODBC compliant databases. | Get all the data you need, irrespective of source or format. |
| Data profiling shows the nature of each field in each source. | Avoid bunny trails by understanding the nature of the data before you start analyzing and graphing. |
| Imports full-size operational data. | Get all the data you need, irrespective of size and fragmentation. |
| Automatically refresh source data connections each time you request an update of a downstream workbook or presentation. | Ensure your analyses always use the latest information without manual intervention and unnecessary clean-up. |
Analytics Perform any cleansing, transformation, visualization, and enrichment required to create insights from source data. |
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| Key Features | Benefits |
| Familiar spreadsheet-like functions. | Leverage your existing skills and knowledge. |
| Modular, step-by-step, interactive analytical process reduces complex problems into manageable pieces. | Solve complex problems more quickly and with greater confidence. Address data quality assurance incrementally. |
| Simultaneous visibility to input data, formulas, and results -- real time re-calculations. | Iterate quickly to refine your hypotheses. Never lose sight of your data. |
| Automatic refresh of all required analytic procedures each time you request an update of a workbook or presentation. | Spend less time on production, more time on review, recommendations, & presentation. |
| Quick, intuitive visualization and charting wizard that creates bar, pie, line, scatter, and crosstabs. | See important relationships in the data on-demand, from import to transformation to enrichment to presentation. |
| Dynamic visualizations allow viewer to zoom in/out the level of summarization, on-the-fly. | Graphics are interactive, revealing more of the context of their underlying data. |
| Export graphics as .png images. | Easily plug into reporting and distribution processes. |
Presentation Communicate findings in a way that is both compelling and efficient. |
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| Key Features | Benefits |
| Presentations that span across multiple workbooks and provide one-click refresh of all graphics and analyses in the presentation. | Spend less time on production and more time on recommendations & communication. |
| Links to 3rd party qualitative text and photos that are related to your themes and findings. | Support and corroborate your findings in order to improve upon insights and outcomes. |
| Custom text annotations embedded in your presentation graphics and slides. | Get your message across more effectively by focusing your audience's attention. |
| Author signature and refresh timestamp on all output. | Enhance and protect your personal "knowledge brand". |
