We often get the question what is the difference between a dashboard tool like for instance QlikView and CXO-Cockpit, for the purpose of creating an Executive dashboard on top of Hyperion Financial Management. Because of the proprietary nature (relational in combination with highly dimensional data) of the Hyperion Financial Management database and the mainly finance orientated output, building a...

We got his interesting question from one of our implementation partners: Implementing your solution we have a technical question at this stage. In our experience, Extended Analytics is a very slow cumbersome way of getting data out of HFM, especially when you have large structures, lots of data and complex rules. As we know HFM stores base level data, the only two ways of getting calculated data o...