Analyzer

What do you like best?

Analyzer allows you to apply your Excel skills into a powerful web-based analytics tool to create in depth insights across a large dataset. It is fantastic for your traditional power users, but not as appealing to a novice user. It has very good (not great) mobile capabilities and incredible flexibility for data management.

What do you dislike?

The visualization is not best in class. There are some new features that get Analyzer closer to par, but still short of modern UI designs on the market. For example, expanding columns by dragging the border doesn't exist, scrolling feels outdated (everything is contained in the pivot box), especially when you are used to sliding your finger to navigate down or sideways on a mobile device or touch screen laptop. Performance can be poor when using some of the advanced functionality or custom MDX queries against a large data set.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

We leverage Analyzer with our customer base to solve problems throughout the retail sector, from inventory management, to promotion optimization, to accelerating new product launches. Building flexible templates with advanced filtering capabilities has been a big positive for our business.