palooca basics (2): broaden your horizon: two is not enough
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Broaden Your Horizon: Two Is Not Enough*
*Open Source. Of Course.
PalOOCa Basics (2):
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Have you ever wondered why your spreadsheet has only two dimensions?
x
y
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Something is missing.
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Just think of a simple figure: sales.Dimension In the spreadsheet
RegionTimeProductCustomer…
xy??
???
And what‘s about hierarchies?
Sales World
Sales EuropeSales North Am.Sales South Am.Sales AsiaSales …
Sales FranceSales UKSales GermanySales ItalySales …
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Your spreadsheet cannot do that alone.
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Don‘t worry!
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There is a solution…
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…you should use a multidimensional data storage.
We can help you with this!
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PalOOCa* provides multidimensional data analysis for your OpenOffice.org Calc* spreadsheets using the OLAP-server Palo*.
Learn more: palooca.sourceforge.net
*Open Source. Of Course.
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shexbeer, pyza*, graciesusie and nitot