Panorama Business Intelligence

Today Nigel published is report on the new strategic direction Panorama is taking. You can read the full report here: http://www.olapreport.com/Comment_Panorama_Google.htm

 

Here are a couple of quotes:

“Google takes its first step into the OLAP world by partnering with the same company that helped Microsoft’s entry a decade earlier…”

 

“Formed in 1994, Panorama is now one of the longer-lived small, independent vendors in the OLAP world — but unlike others, its survival has not been based on hiding in a specialist niche. We have tracked the company since mid-1996 (well before most analysts) and have observed the remarkable influence on the industry it has had since then….”

 

On PowerApps: “Behind the simple pivot table interface is rather more OLAP technology than might be expected. As the Google spreadsheet is Web-based, Panorama cannot use the RAM on the client machine to cache the multidimensional data, which is of course what Excel does with local PivotTables. Instead, Panorama uses an undisclosed proprietary OLAP server to do the job, generating server cubes on-the-fly from the data in the users’ spreadsheets. This cube-creation process does cause a delay of at least 10 to 15 seconds (more with larger cubes), and screen refresh after any user action also takes several seconds, so the user experience is not nearly as slick as in Excel.”