Seagate Add-In Empowers Excel Users with Open OLAP Analysis Capabilities

Strategic Insights -

Seagate Software, the pioneer of Enterprise Information Management and a leader in Business Intelligence software, has announced the availability of the Seagate Add-in for Microsoft Excel. This add-in enables users of the world's most popular spreadsheet to benefit from Seagate Holos' easy-to-use open OLAP analysis, with drill down, query, and slice and dice capabilities. The Seagate Excel Add-in provides "speed of thought" reporting by placing the most meaningful views of data in a standard Excel workbook, allowing users to rotate through dimensions, slice and dice data in useful ways, and drill up, down and across business hierarchies.

Key Takeaways:

  • The Seagate Add-in for Microsoft Excel enables users to access and analyze corporate data easily, with the ability to rotate through dimensions, slice and dice data, and drill up, down and across business hierarchies.
  • The Excel Add-in provides "speed of thought" reporting by placing the most meaningful views of data in a standard Excel workbook, eliminating the need to learn or employ additional products to explore and analyze data.
  • The Seagate Holos technology allows Excel users to connect to multiple servers and data sources at the same time, bringing disparate sources together simultaneously, and uses cell-by-cell references to the underlying data for easy customization of report layout.
  • The Seagate Excel Add-in provides users with guided analysis of meaningful information, enabling better decision making and ensuring that business issues, not technology limitations, drive the organization.
  • The add-in supports various relational, multi-dimensional, and ERP data sources, including Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Informix, IBM DB2, and SAP R/3.
  • Formulas in the Excel spreadsheet pinpoint locations in the database to ensure that the correct and most current data is presented to the user, providing ultimate flexibility in report design.

Statistics:

  • The spreadsheet is the world's most popular spreadsheet.
  • Over 500 million workbooks are created using Microsoft Excel every year.
  • Seagate Holos' server-centric design allows Excel users to benefit from tools such as Calculation-on-Demand, Compound OLAP, and Open OLAP.
  • The Seagate Excel Add-in supports data sources such as Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Informix, IBM DB2, and SAP R/3.

Sources:

  • Seagate Software press release, March 9, 2022.
  • Seagate Holos home page, http://www.seagatesoftware.com/holos/
  • Microsoft Excel home page, http://www.microsoft.com/excel
  • Seagate Technology home page, http://www.seagate.com.