XLCubed
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XLCubed 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.
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. With its partners, XLCubed provides services to such companies as BP
.
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
.
XLCubed software is used by business end users to create dynamic report
s, dashboards, and planning solutions which are then deployed either via Microsoft Excel or the Web. 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. XLCubed and similar tools aim to address many of the issues businesses experience with the proliferation of spreadsheets as data stores, or spreadmart
s.
After the demise of Microsoft PerformancePoint Planning in early 2009, 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.
Business intelligence
Business intelligence mainly refers to computer-based techniques used in identifying, extracting, and analyzing business data, such as sales revenue by products and/or departments, or by associated costs and incomes....
software and consulting services company. Established in 2001, XLCubed develops business intelligence software
Business intelligence tools
Business intelligence tools are a type of application software designed to retrieve, analyze and report data. The tools generally read data that have been previously stored, often, though not necessarily, in a data warehouse or data mart....
(for Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Excel is a proprietary commercial spreadsheet application written and distributed by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications...
and Web-based reporting) and provides business intelligence and performance management
Performance management
Performance management includes activities that ensure that goals are consistently being met in an effective and efficient manner. Performance management can focus on the performance of an organization, a department, employee, or even the processes to build a product or service, as well as many...
consulting services. The company is privately held and based out of the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
in the Thames Valley
Thames Valley
The Thames Valley Region is a loose term for the English counties and towns roughly following the course of the River Thames as it flows from Oxfordshire in the west to London in the east. It includes parts of Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, North Hampshire, Surrey and west London...
IT corridor.
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. With its partners, XLCubed provides services to such companies as BP
BP
BP p.l.c. is a global oil and gas company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the third-largest energy company and fourth-largest company in the world measured by revenues and one of the six oil and gas "supermajors"...
.
Focused around the Microsoft BI stack
Microsoft Analysis Services
Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services is part of Microsoft SQL Server, a database management system. Microsoft has included a number of services in SQL Server related to business intelligence and data warehousing. These services include Integration Services and Analysis Services...
and in-memory OLAP technology, since 2007, XLCubed has expanded its remit to become a leading vendor of data visualization
Data visualization
Data visualization is the study of the visual representation of data, meaning "information that has been abstracted in some schematic form, including attributes or variables for the units of information"....
technologies and expertise. XLCubed is a Microsoft Gold Partner
Microsoft Certified Partner
A Microsoft Certified Partner is an independent company that provides Microsoft-related products or services.Microsoft Certified partners provide Microsoft services on behalf of Microsoft worldwide spanning many fields including OEM, Education, Software providers and Technical Support.Microsoft...
.
XLCubed software is used by business end users to create dynamic report
Report
A report is a textual work made with the specific intention of relaying information or recounting certain events in a widely presentable form....
s, dashboards, and planning solutions which are then deployed either via Microsoft Excel or the Web. 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. XLCubed and similar tools aim to address many of the issues businesses experience with the proliferation of spreadsheets as data stores, or spreadmart
Spreadmart
A spreadmart is a concept describing the tendency of spreadsheets to "run amok" in organizations. Typically a spreadmart is created by individuals at different times using different data sources and rules for defining metrics in an organization, creating a fractured view of the enterprise...
s.
After the demise of Microsoft PerformancePoint Planning in early 2009, 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 released