The power to analyse OLAP Cubes on the Web
PREO™ Cube Viewer provides users with the ability to easily interrogate multi-dimensional
data cubes via the web. PREO™ Cube Viewer’s highly intuitive interface provides
powerful visual representation of your OLAP Cubes that can be viewed graphically
and in tabular format.
Users are able to select from a number of pre-built reports and then slice and dice
the data by changing category criteria and measures, set up filters and drill down
to lower level data at the click of a button. This aids non-analytical users to
get the results they need with minimal effort.
For power users, PREO™ Cube Viewer provides all the tools needed to interrogate
the data cubes, build new reports, save queries and reload these at a later date.
PREO™ Cube viewer is offered as part of the PREO™ Reporting Suite or
as a stand-alone hosted web application.
Presentation of OLAP data:
For many organisations the primary vehicle for viewing data cubes is Excel Pivot
tables. The major dilemma is that while the data views in table format may be acceptable,
presenting the same data graphically is not always intuitive (typically the axes
need to be pivoted to present tabular data logically in graphical format). Additionally,
the task of creating unique reports for specific users becomes so complex that many
organisations simply don’t do this – thereby leaving non-technical end users struggling
to decipher meaning from the data.
Distribution to remote users:
The data cubes are often distributed to remote users (e.g. Regional Sales Managers)
via email making the number of cubes sent and their management a challenge to the
organisation and the end users.
Building Cubes:
For many organisations, the first challenge is simply building OLAP Cubes. The additional
technical requirements and challenges this brings to an organisation may have prevented
it from undertaking the introduction of multidimensional analysis believing the
return on investment to be too low to justify the costs.
Whether you already build OLAP cubes or not, we can help you unlock more value from
the data inside your organisation.
Provided as a hosted service, PREO™ Cube Viewer provides organisations with
the option to build and upload their own Microsoft Analysis Services OLAP Cubes
or cub files or provide Vedere Group with the raw data in order that we build your
cubes for you.
- Minimises distribution workload for the organisation
- Zero footprint for end users – no cubes to save or download
- Predefined reports can be built against each cube for each user
- Users can select predefined reports or build their own
- Have us build and generate your cube files for you
PREO™ Cube Viewer enables users to view Microsoft Analysis Services OLAP Cubes
or stand alone cube files (.cub) via the web.
PREO™ Cube Viewer provides the following features;
- Cube, report, category, series selections
- On demand slicing and dicing of data cubes
- Drilldown (and drill up) into charts and report grids
- Filtering and sorting functionality
- Build and save reports
- Reload saved reports
- Selectable chart/ grid presentation layer options
- Save as image options (for use in other applications)
- Export graph and report grid data to Excel
- Access controls can be applied to cubes and pre-defined reports – enabling a unique
user experience in terms of each user’s choice of cubes and reports
PREO™ Cube Viewer – example of a report presented in tabular format
PREO™ Cube Viewer – example of a report presented in chart format
We welcome the opportunity to discuss PREO™ Cube Viewer with you. For further
information, please complete the on-line contact form.