Monthly Archives: March 2011

The Sky’s the limit with CALUMO Skylights

CALUMO Skylights open up a whole new way of integrating web content within Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 and Microsoft Word 2010 (and 2007). When combined with CALUMO reports, Skylights unite the power of corporate reporting with the presentation power of PowerPoint and printability or Word. Each Skylight acts as a window onto a report which can be presented or interacted with real time.

Here is a great example of how Dominic… Continue reading

Rocking the Budget in Education with CALUMO and Analysis Services at UNSW

A couple of weeks ago, Alister Cairns from University of New South Wales came to Club CALUMO, CALUMO’s user group and presented what he and his team had rolled out to his constituents for reporting, budgeting and forecasting with Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) at UNSW.  The primary tool is Excel with CALUMO’s integration for write back to SSAS.

UNSW have been using CALUMO for over 3 years.  They… Continue reading

BIDS Helper and how it helps me

I was busy modifying CALUMO’s data warehouse today.  There was an existing field in a table in SQL Server that I need to make much larger.  I changed the table then tried to process the SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) cube when I had this error:

Errors in the back-end database access module. The size specified for a binding was too small, resulting in one or more column values being… Continue reading

Welcome to the CALUMO BI/BPM Blog

Hi and welcome!

This is CALUMO’s Business Intelligence and Business Performance Management blog.

This blog will contain BI and BPM  information, Excel tips and tricks, information about how  our clients use CALUMO and BI/BPM and the benefits they gain.

Other times we will post our opinion of BI and BPM today.

So keep your eyes locked on this blog!

Cheers, Warwick… Continue reading