Reporting with DodecaFinancial reporting is the most reliable and widely used means of visually communicating a business’ financial performance. Financial reporting also serves internal clients within a company that use performance-based compensation to motivate their employees. In larger companies, this user base may number in the thousands and can provide guidance on a monthly, weekly, or even daily basis.
Ease of use. Dodeca is so easy to use that users at all skill levels can quickly take advantage of its features. The intuitive, easy-to-learn interface requires minimal training. Point of view selection. Users are able to quickly view a report for a specific combination of Essbase members or relational criteria by interactively selecting the point of view of interest. The point of view selectors are highly configurable; the user interface, content, and behavior of each selector can easily be customized and optimized for an individual report or set of reports. Centralized, managed environment. Within Dodeca’s centralized, managed environment, any changes made to a report configuration or template by an administrator are immediately available to all users, whether 10 or 10,000 users. The next time a user accesses the report; the revisions are automatically and transparently downloaded and presented without any intentional effort by the user. Excel formatting and graphs. With Excel as the report designer on the back-end and an Excel-like interface as the front-end, every aspect of the layout and appearance of each report can be designed to achieve the best visual presentation of the data. Reports can leverage all of the rich, flexible formatting features and options available in Excel. Output report to Excel. Users are able to save spreadsheet-based reports to Excel. Email report as Excel attachment. Users are able to email spreadsheet-based reports as an Excel attachment. Cascading Essbase reports. Users are able to select multiple Essbase members from different dimensions to quickly generate reports that contain separate sheets for each combination of members.
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Through a rich set of features ideally suited for financial reporting, Dodeca enables business decision makers to quickly review the financial results of their strategic and operational decisions on an ongoing basis. Several key features of Dodeca that facilitate financial reporting include:
