Tag Archives: Reporting

Web reporting for the non-technical

“Why didn’t you show me that before? I am so upset now!”

That’s what a client, Sammy, said to me a couple of weeks ago.

Sammy is an accountant who builds all her companies reports and budgeting templates in Excel with CALUMO. She was referring to creating dynamic web pages with CALUMO from Excel that people can interact… Continue reading

ANALOGY:Good Business Intelligence is like captaining an ocean-going freighter

Trying to run an organisation without forecasts and automated reporting?

The CFO at a $multi-billion manufacturing company gave me this awesome analogy:
“Picture yourself on the bridge of an ocean-going freighter.  As Captain, it’s your job to guide that ship out of harbour and to sail it to New York.

Upgrading ERP? Here’s 8 benefits that good Business Intelligence provides

Moving to a new ERP platform or upgrading your exising ERP can be an expensive process.

From our experience however, there is at least one way to save tens of thousands of dollars and ensure a smooth transition. Continue reading

Business Intelligence Buzz Words: Transactional Reports

Transactional Reports: are important but most of the time are the most boring reports created by humans. They normally list hundreds or thousands of business transactions (like monthly sales) on many pages of paper or on-screen reports.… Continue reading

World’s Best Reporting & Planning Software Gets Rave Reviews from UNSW

University of New South Wales, Sydney, AustraliaI recently asked Alister Cairns from UNSW if he could write a few words about how CALUMO has helped UNSW.  What I received blew me away. Here it is. Continue reading

Why is Peter Curtis from Redflex so relaxed?

Peter Curtis is the Group Accountant at Redflex (www.redflex.com).  Redflex has been using CALUMO for enterprise business intelligence for a few years now and Peter was good enough to tell us how CALUMO has helped Redflex. Peter tells us how CALUMO software enables faster reporting when aggregating data from many data sources, ensures data integrity in reports and saves time because it’s easy to use.  Assisted by excellent CALUMO

Just how easy is it to create a nice looking report with CALUMO?

A few people have asked me recently, “Just how easy is it to create a nice looking report with CALUMO and make it work as a web page?”

The best way to show you how build a web report using Excel is with a video.

http://youtu.be/s4vOX2vsz-0

Remember, this report has… Continue reading

Super FAST cubes with CALUMO

I was talking Paul Cavanagh-Downs, one of CALUMO’s awesome consulting team today.  He showed me a web based CALUMO report he built in CALUMO that took about 1 second to display aggregated data.  Paul changed the date, and some of the other 11 hierarchy members and the report still displayed in 1 second but with new data this time.

I say “Yeah, that’s pretty good.  It looks nice too.”… Continue reading

Game theory and Business Intelligence, no really

I followed a recent tweet from our Professional Services Manager recently linking to a blog here on game theory as it relates to social media activities.  It resonated with me immediately from a business perspective.

The synopsis of the blog (and I’m not doing it justice) is that the like of Twitter, World of Warcraft, Farmville etc are poster children for the practical application of Game Theory. … Continue reading

BI In Education – University of NSW

First of trilogy of End User case studies, here is a short and potted history of deiverables at University of NSW.

CALUMO was invited by UNSW to assist them in reducing overheads and costs of their budgeting and reporting system.

Utilizing their existing technology and adding the CALUMO application layer, UNSW was able to provide effective management reporting across the University as well as a budget interface for… Continue reading