OLAP Office Explorer Value Proposition - ROI PDF Print E-mail

Return On Investment (ROI) Calculation - Give us a little and we'll give you an exponential return

The solution features and benefits are as listed below – Contact OLAP Office™ to calculate your return on investment (ROI) for your solution. 

olap_roiOLAP Office™ provides for

- Greater flexibility
- Increased productivity
- Low costs
- Integration with IT strategies
- Specific financial accounting functionality and benefits
- OLAP Model simplification
- Reduced IT dependence, which helps both the user and the IT department
 -Reduced development times. Some competitor product resellers are quoting a day per report.
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Give users the tools they need to save time and money.
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From defining your business case and forming a value proposition, to measuring your return on investment (ROI), you’ll find going through this exercise an important part of assessing the business value for your entity in implementing an OLAP Office™ and Microsoft Business Intelligent solution. This process helps to effectively define, plan and manage your capital investment. The OLAP Office™ Business Intelligence return on investment calculation provides a comprehensive framework to quickly quantify estimated return on your investment in your solution. We will even compare your investment on competitor product pricing. To get your free return on investment calculation from OLAP Office™ please contact OLAP Office.

Refer to the value table below. 

  OLAP Office Value Benefit
Ease of Integration    
Microsoft Excel
Spreadsheet client & modelling
- No macro development environment
- Spreadsheet client & modelling

- Reduced interface and training costs
- Reduced staff dependency
- Improved productivity
- Leverage existing knowledge
- Faster adoption
     
Microsoft Analysis Services & SQL Server
- Market leading OLAP technology
- Most widely used relational database
- Direct data source connectivity
- Automatic updating

- Huge expanding market
- Leverage platform investments
- Faster development
- Tested integration
- Improving functionality
- Scaleable applications
- Reduced data cost
- Reduced maintenance
     
Microsoft Office - Data links to Word and PowerPoint
- Same as Explorer above
- More complete systems
- Better data knowledge management
     
Help Files  Integrates help files  Improved deployment times
     
Development Languages  API integration possible  System developers can integrate functionality
     
Ease of Use    
Microsoft Excel - Flexible complete browser
- No specialist knowledge required (MDX or VBA programmer knowledge)
- Rapid application development (RAD)
- Theme and template approach
- View management
- Improved general ledger integration
- Early adoption by users
- Leverage users existing Excel modeling knowledge
- Improved data access & querying
- Improved data presentation
- Reduced cost per transaction
- Reduced system maintenance
- Reduced solution times
- Improved organization knowledge
- Reduced spreadsheet proliferation
- Automated updating for changing structural changes

Analysis Services - Extended functionality
- Simplified Excel interface
- Excel interface to object model
- Excel based dimensions
- Blank cube creation
- Early adoption by users
- Reduced solution times
- Easier development
- Easier deployment
     
Finance and Analyst Capabilities    
Microsoft Excel
- Accounting and management reporting formats and input in one view
- Improved ad-hoc analysis and querying
- Writeback
- What-If
- Dynamic modelling
- Improved general ledger integration
- Journaling
- Audit Trail
- Data mining and interrogation
- Ordering, ranking, sorting, exception reporting and querying
- Allocations
- Actions
- Excel graphic integration
- Drill-through to source data
- Structure drilling options
- Data cell commenting
- Data cell hyperlinking
- Multi-lingual
- OLAP Relational Reports
- Report
- Simpler and faster integration to general ledger and ERP applications
- Significantly reduced data reconciliation
- Improved reporting output
- Improved data understanding
- Improved data analysis
- Improved data capture
- Improved data accuracy
- Improved data presentation
- Improve timeliness of data
- Improved performance
- Improved data mining functionality
- Exception reporting
- Improved budgeting and forecasting for ERP
- Data more available and accessible
- Flexible reporting that changes as organization structures change
- Improved decision making
- Simplified and lower risk OLAP modelling
- Better information
- Proactive and integrated systems
- Improved communication of data
 

 

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