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Comshare has brought out version 4.0 of its business intelligence (BI) software platform, known as Comshare Decision. Decision is an open, extensible and Web-based soft ware platform that provides advanced BI reporting and analysis capabilities for multidimensional data.

Employing a user-centric design and capabilities for real-time data Real-time data denotes information that is delivered immediately after collection. There is no delay in the timeliness of the information provided.

Some uses of this term confuse it with the term dynamic data.
, the BI platform gives users highly effective ways to obtain information for ad hoc For this purpose. Meaning "to this" in Latin, it refers to dealing with special situations as they occur rather than functions that are repeated on a regular basis. See ad hoc query and ad hoc mode.  reporting, multidimensional analysis, visualization of data across large hierarchies and advanced exception alerting that proactively notifies users of problem areas. Comshare Decision exploits Web technology, supports multiple data sources, includes greatly enhanced human factors and end user functionality, analytical capabilities, and includes more advanced data visualization techniques to enhance specialized OLAP (OnLine Analytical Processing) Decision support software that allows the user to quickly analyze information that has been summarized into multidimensional views and hierarchies. OLAP tools are used to perform trend analysis on sales and financial information.  (online analytical processing Online Analytical Processing, or OLAP (IPA: /ˈoʊlæp/), is an approach to quickly provide answers to analytical queries that are multidimensional in nature. ) solutions.
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Title Annotation:Comshare Decision
Publication:Financial Executive
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:May 1, 2001
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