If you want to move away form your current over-priced, outdated CPM solutions, Power BI and Power Pivot is here to help. Additionally if you add Power Planner to the mix, you can enable the Corporate Performance Management data in a completely different light: Powered by: Step 1: Create a data model: (No Worries, it’s already there for you) Step 2: Build a Hierarchy:
Read MoreCorporate Performance Management(CPM) + Business Intelligence(BI) = True
History For many years the CPM Team (Finance) and BI Team(Operations) has had a tug of war over what data is the best measurement for sales, cost of goods and expenditures. By nature, Finance and Operations are focused on measuring different metrics, but does the data sources have to be different? The answer has been a unified ‘YES’, but maybe not any longer. This table
Read MorePower ON announces support for Drag and Drop in Power BI
At the PASS BA conference in May, Power ON launched Drag and Drop visuals for Power BI on a Surface Tablet. Click on the video to see it in action. Click to see the video:
Read MoreSome good press about Power Planner
In Paul Turley’s blog post PowerON BI – Write-back to Power BI and SSAS tabular for forecasting and planning I’ve used the Power Update tool from Power On in the past. When I saw the Power Planner demonstrated, the simplicity and ease-of-use just knocked my socks off. The ability to write-back forecast data and report on real-time “what-if” scenarios has been a difficult to
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