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Product Description: - Marketing Information: Microsoft Data Analyzer is an easy-to-use data analysis tool that offers an innovative graphical analysis interface enabling users to identify trends, opportunities, and potential issues quickly. Microsoft Data Analyzer extends the business intelligence capabilities of Microsoft Office XP by adding rich visualization and analysis capabilities. Data Analyzerandquot;s intuitive user interface complements the powerful analysis features provided by Excel 2002, Office Web Components, and Digital Dashboards. Designed to optimize the advanced features of Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services, Data Analyzer is a valuable component of any organizationandquot;s business intelligence strategy and a key player in the Microsoft business intelligence platform. Product Information - Software Sub Type: Productivity Application - Software Name: Data Analyzer 2002 - Complete Product - Features and Benefits: Standard Features: - Data Analyzer View - Easily display relationships across multiple dimensions, such as customer, region, product, and time, in a single view - Color Scale - Find business data anomalies with the dynamic and customizable Color Scale that automatically highlights anomalies for you - Export to Excel - The Export to Excel feature enables you to easily export your data into an Excel workbook or PivotTable report for further analysis - Grid View - The Grid View feature enables you to see the data behind the bars, in its co
Stephanie, qu'est qu'il y a? Je parle francais. Mais, je ne comprends pas ce que vous avez a traduire: l'information sur la logicile ou bien les remarques de ceux qui l'a achete....Tant mieux, je ne sais pas pourquoi je vous reponds. Promlement, je ne vais pas retourner a cette page. Ah, je sais: J'avais envie te tapper en francais:)
Pourriez-vous me traduire pour bien saisir? MERCI. Je n'ai pas bien compris ce que vous dittes!!!
Remember VB 1.0? I remember VB 1.0 I was project leader 12 years ago on a job that needed a GUI visualization front-end (the core was a telephony application to be written in C). I could have had the front-end custom written in Motif with Unix workstations, but that would have been prohibitively expensive.
VB had been on the market for just one week, and I knew it was ragged and not mature. But it did the job. And it was dirt cheap.
And so with Data Analyzer. Sure, it's ragged and immature (no cross-tabs in the grid, for example). But at less than 200 bucks a pop, it's BI for the masses. Will it do the job? Maybe 70% of it. Compared to zero for most business users currently, that's a quantum leap. And all this thin/thick client business? What does a business user care about the techie stuff? Am I going to see about installing en masse into my clent base? Absolutely!
Your point about Business Objects etc is well taken. I put BO into my last two clients. It's fabulously powerful. But it's also several thou per seat! The one to worry about is Crystal Analysis. In my view, this is direct competition. Especially when I can put DA onto a hundred desktops for about 6K with volume discounts.
I expect to see DA bundled eventually. Probably not into Office, more likely into the SQL Server bundle. This one is a stayer. If I were an ISV Partner, I'd be losing sleep.
There are better products out there Unfortunately I was pretty disappointed by Data Analyzer. I was looking for a better OLAP interface than Microsoft Excel and this isn't it.
The majority of the interface centers around bar charts (though pie charts and data grids are also available). On the bar charts it is possible to assign one measure to the length of the bar and another measure to the color of the bar. Data Analyzer then creates a color gradient in hopes of showing you "good" and "bad" using color. This is actually a pretty neat feature, but I found it to be little more than eye candy. Personally I believe there are better graphical representations of multidimensional data.
The product does include a "Business Center" tool that allows you to ask canned questions against the data. One of these questions returns a similarity analysis. Again, a very neat feature, but not enough to justify the package.
Overall, I think Excel will serve as a good OLAP interface for most users. Beyond that, products such as ProClarity and BusinessObjects offer much more in terms of an "advanced" OLAP client.
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