From Sydney, Australia is Calumo

 

Calumo was formed in 1996 but truly became Calumo after the sale of Dynamic Decisions in 2001 it is a leading provider of Performance Management Solutions based upon Microsoft's Business Intelligence platform (SQL Server, SSAS, SSIS) Calumo installation is without question a very easy process.

 

It is so simple that users can install through a single click and play approach. It does mean that the installers are now smaller, faster and more reliable and can be automatically built at any time for any revision of the Calumo codebase. This does leave the user is need of regular updates and patches which come direct from Calumo. Once you have begun the fastest and easiest uses from Calumo allow the user administrator to set a default start page for a default view for a Cube.

 

The most exciting element to a new user must be the planning capability is unified in a single Performance Management application, for a continuous cycle of reporting, planning, monitoring and action.

 

This means that the Business Intelligence is integrated with Internet Explorer, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft SQL Server and Analysis Services, Calumo's business intelligence capability allows a very easy way for reports to be designed in Microsoft Excel, as well as WYSIWIG publishing to the web.

 

Calumo also allows for a comprehensive solution for Management Reporting, as well as Sales and HR reporting. The user is the presented with rich compact charts of large amounts of data in a single cell. By combining charts and data together in a table, we do away with the need to separately label axes and legends, or the need to associate the table data with the chart information. This is superb for identifying trends, comparing data and highlighting exceptions which makes the design of really compelling executive dashboards exceptionally easy.

 

Who should use Calumo?

 

For those who have a high understanding of BI and require in-depth reports from KPI’s through heat maps and Harvey Ball charts, it is an exceptional tool; the capability to work with existing Microsoft Dynamics implementations does require an expert with integration knowledge and it can be a lot more time consuming that the suggested plug and play options suggest.