XLCubed
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| Private | |
| Industry | Business intelligence software |
| Founded | 2001 |
| Headquarters | Maidenhead, United Kingdom |
| Website |
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XLCubed (XLCubed Ltd) is a business intelligence software and consulting services company. Established in 2001, XLCubed develops business intelligence software (for Microsoft Excel and Web-based reporting) and provides business intelligence and performance management consulting services. The company is privately held and based out of the United Kingdom in the Thames Valley IT corridor.[1]
XLCubed is partnered with Inform Information Systems for Oil and Gas and Energy systems implementation and maintains a number of partnerships for specific market sectors and geographic regions.[2] With its partners, XLCubed provides services to such companies as BP.[3]
Focused around the Microsoft BI stack and in-memory OLAP technology, since 2007, XLCubed has expanded its remit to become a leading vendor of data visualization technologies and expertise. XLCubed is a Microsoft Gold Partner.[4]
XLCubed software is used by business end users to create dynamic reports, dashboards, and planning solutions which are then deployed either via Microsoft Excel or the Web.[5][6] XLCubed supports Microsoft Excel editions from Excel XP to Excel 2010 for querying SQL Server Analysis Services 2008, 2005 and 2000, PowerOLAP, and relational data sources including SQL Server and Oracle.[7][8] XLCubed and similar tools aim to address many of the issues businesses experience with the proliferation of spreadsheets as data stores, or spreadmarts.[9]
After the demise of Microsoft PerformancePoint Planning in early 2009,[10] XLCubed developed the XLCubed PM suite. The XLCubed PM suite uses either Analysis Services or the PowerOLAP in-memory OLAP engine to enable real-time writeback and instant results without the need for batch calculations.
History
- 2001 – XLCubed v1 – Formula Based OLAP reporting in Excel
- 2002 – XLCubed Explorer – Grid based Slice and dice Analytics
- 2003 – XLCubed v2 for Excel combining the Formula & Grid modes
- 2004 – XLCubed Web Edition
- 2005 – XLCubed v3
- 2007 – XLCubed v4 – MicroChart Integration, fully redesigned Web Edition
- 2008 – XLCubed v5 – extended feature set, relational support
- 2009 – XLCubed PM Launched at TDWI, Orlando. Modelling capabilities, PowerOLAP integration
- 2010 – XLCubed v6 [11]
- May 2012 – XLCubed v7 – support for SQL Server 2012's BI Semantic Model, and much improved relational reporting[12]
- September 2012 – XLCubed v7.1 – Treemap and Lollipop visualisations, support for Windows 8 and Microsoft Office 2013, and ProClarity report conversion [13]
References
- ↑ XLCubed "Contacts" Retrieved 7 July 2011
- ↑ XLCubed "Partners" Retrieved 23 April 2010
- ↑ TDWI "BP Exploration and Production Migrates to a New Business Intelligence Environment" 23 October 2006
- ↑ Microsoft Solution Finder "XLCubed partner details" Retrieved 23 April 2010
- ↑ FSN "Why an Excel based approach to delivering Business Intelligence (BI) over the web could provide a way forward for Enterprise deployment" 13 May 2007
- ↑ Chris Webb "XLCubed (and a rant about Microsoft's client tool strategy)" 24 July 2008
- ↑ AccountingWEB "XLCubed and PowerOLAP launch web BI system" 13 November 2009
- ↑ www.ssas-info.com "SSAS Client Tools > XLCubed" 3 May 2007
- ↑ TDWI "Strategies for Managing Spreadmarts: Migrating to a Managed BI Environment" 3 April 2008
- ↑ Nigel Pendse "Commentary: The false dawn of Microsoft PerformancePoint Planning" 19 June 2009
- ↑ "Some more comments about XLCubed"
- ↑ "XLCubed Release Version 7, with Full Support for SQL Server 2012 BISM and Extended SQL Reporting"
- ↑ "Release of XLCubed v7.1"