Excel Cube Formula Reporting

If you use Microsoft Excel 2007 or 2010 to analyze data from:

• Microsoft Analysis Services cubes
• PowerPivot for Excel
• Oracle OLAP (using Simba Technologies' MDX Provider for Oracle OLAP)
• Teradata OLAP Connector

then read on to learn about one of Excel's best kept secrets. You love the slice, dice, pivot and drill that PivotTables afford but you are frustrated by their limitations of placement and formatting (ever tried inserting a column in the middle of a PivotTable or moving just part of it?). You want to build reports that are dynamically linked to your database but you want to place your report sections in the worksheet precisely where you want them. The solution to your problem is Cube Formula Reports. Still part of Excel, they use CUBE functions that can be positioned almost anywhere in a worksheet, just like any other Excel functions. And just like Excel functions you leverage your existing Excel skills ; no new products to learn. Data and presentation (your Excel report) remain separated, drastically reducing the potential for spreadsheet hell; report users that access a central database all retrieve the same version of the truth. Building Dynamic Reports and Dashboards with Excel Cube Functions is a self-paced multi-media training course that is your express chair lift up the cube function learning curve. The course media provide instruction to suit your learning style and comprise :

• Learning Guide (PDF over 90 pages) with links to
• 35 short, digestible videos
• 8 annotated workbook examples that you can re-use
• supported by a sample database

You will get off and running, developing reports quickly using the "80/20" method (80% of the result with 20% of the effort). In subsequent sections you will learn how to:

• make your reports more robust, easier to maintain, and re-usable
• add drop-down lists to make report parameter selection easy for users
• add functionality to check key report numbers and display alerts if numbers don't tie
• use Excel's built-in graphic capabilities to create dynamic dashboards that convey at a glance the values, trend and status of your KPIs, pulled from your centrally-stored data
• automate report printing using VBA macros
• debug formulas, work with nested dimensions, member properties, multiple data sources, add additional data rows and columns to existing reports
• tips to convert legacy "copy/paste/re-key" reports to cube formula reports
• use PowerPivot for Excel (2010) as a data source. PowerPivot can be an aggregator hundreds of millions of rows of data from multiple Microsoft and non-Microsoft sources - invaluable for rapid prototyping of new BI applications or for self-service BI
• set up your reports so they remain dynamic when published to Excel Services in SharePoint
• generally leverage Excel's functionality and your skills to enhance your reports and dashboards and the report reader's experience

Appendices in the Learning Guide explain technical topics, including:

• CUBE function syntax
• connecting to data sources
• understanding the implications of uniqueness of dimension member names

Contain software and training costs by capitalizing on your existing Excel knowledge and software investment. Order Building Dynamic Reports and Dashboards with Excel Cube Functions now. (Download is large and may take several minutes).