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David Gordon

Posts by David Gordon

Self-Service BI Directly on SAP BW
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Self-service BI directly on SAP BW

Direct query on SAP BW and HANA without compromising governance and data security.

Real Self-Service BI for SAP
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Real self-service BI for SAP

Pyramid offers a mature, fully functional self-service technology that offers “direct query” and full functionality on SAP BW and HANA

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The seven success factors of time intelligence

Date-time analysis is a central pillar of modern analytics. Every business needs to track progress over periods of time, and more importantly, compare and evaluate that progress between two time Read more…

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Time Intelligence: How date lists and ranges accelerate insights

This is the fifth blog in the series on how Pyramid brings time intelligence into analytics. In my previous blogs, I demonstrated how Pyramid provides automatic date parameters to interrogate different data slices Read more…

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Time intelligence: Custom calculations for greater perspective

This is the fourth blog in the series on how Pyramid brings time intelligence into analytics. My previous posts on time-intelligence covered Pyramid’s powerful and automatic date-time calculation creation capabilities. We saw how users can Read more…

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Time intelligence: Date-time calculations made simple

This is the third blog in the series on how Pyramid brings time intelligence into analytics. As covered in my previous blogs on time-intelligence, adding date-time groupings into your data Read more…

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Time intelligence: Date-time groupings for better visibility

This is the second blog in the series on how Pyramid brings time intelligence into analytics. In my previous blog post, I introduced the concept of grouping amounts in data periods Read more…

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Time intelligence: A critical element in all analytic projects

This is the first blog in a series on how Pyramid brings time intelligence to analytics.

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Calculating differences without code

In part 3 of my blog series on contextual calculations (see part one and part two), I cover the powerful ability to calculate differences between current and previous row values for a metric Read more…

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Pareto Analysis: Using the 80/20 Rule

In this second post on my three-part series on contextual calculations, I examine how Pyramid can quickly create business calculations like Pareto with just a few clicks. An Italian economist Read more…

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Stop Writing Code: Running Totals Made Easy

In this part 1 of my blog series on contextual calculations, I explore running totals in Pyramid. Running or cumulative totals allow business users to see how different metrics add Read more…

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Amplify your feedback: Pervasive Collaboration with Pyramid

In part 2 of my blog series on analytic collaboration, I cover the powerful ability to comment and annotate data models without specific reports or dashboards.