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Connecting Excel to Enterprise Data

Brian CarterTechnical ManagerInformation Builders

Creating Excel Dashboards w/ Quick Data

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Excel is a great productivity tool for creating reports and managing and manipulating numeric data; however it has always lack simple access to enterprise data and applications. Until now! Find out how WebFOCUS Quick Data for Excel allows you to quickly and easily tapped into ANY enterprise data source and application from inside of Excel.  This simple add-in has overt 300 data and application adapters and its simple drag and drop interface can increase Excel user productivity and reduce errors associated with manual cut and paste processes. This online seminar will demonstrate how Excel can become the command center for creating robust compound enterprise documents and dashboards.

Abstract

Streamlining Excel Reporting

Excel’s built-in data access is limited SQL, Access, ODBC, OLEDB, or… COPY/PASTE!!!

Data connections must be set up

on the desktop

Limited metadata

Query creation is

somewhat limited

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Stand-alone Excel Reporting is Challenging

Simplify with Quick Data

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Access to all enterprise data

Business rules and

metadata handled

by WebFOCUS

No desktop

connections required

Report Assistant

offers more query

options

Secure access

Create,

edit, and save

queries

Automatic Refresh of data

Format and style query data with WF engine

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Additional Benefits

Applications: Excel Dashboards

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Dashboards/scorecards easy to create with release of Excel 2007Built-in visualizationThemes Increased number of

rows/columns

WebFOCUS provides discernible metadata and access to all enterprise data

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Demonstration