Exploration Trees – December, 2007

Exploration Trees are a new way to access and analyze information. They give you the big and small picture of your business in a single glance, while allowing you to analyze up, down, and across your information. With Exploration Trees, you can:

Freely analyze measures by drilling along any available dimension
Compare measure values in different contexts
Simultaneously view the details and the big picture
All in a very visual, simple, and secure way

Consider Joanne: she needs to analyze the performance of a given product line. She would like to compare sales revenues and margins along all possible hierarchies (time, products, sales teams…) in a very flexible and not pre-conceived way, to be able to discover facts out of the scope of the dashboards and reports she uses every day.

Exploration Trees Demo

Discover how Joanne can set-up and use an Exploration Tree to analyze the performance of a product line (click on the image below).

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Main Features

Break down measures along any dimension from the universe

Compare the same measure in different contexts

View multiple measures at once

Exploration Trees Benefits

Freedom of analysis: break down any measure along any dimension in any order.
View the details AND the big picture: the drill path, and the measure values along that path, is always explicit, and easy to visualize.
Ease of Use: Exploration Trees are built by selecting nodes and drill dimensions in a very intuitive manner.
Leverage your Business Objects platform: Exploration Trees work on your existing universes, and may be installed and used within InfoView in minutes…

Enjoy!

We hope you’ll use this prototype to discover how helpful exploration trees are to discover the main components that make up a measure or an indicator, but also what is hidden behind the same indicator. Please give us feedback to make sure we know how you're using this and things you would like to see it do in the future.

What are your use cases (either successful or not)?
Which limitations for use do you foresee?
How would you compare using this product to answer business questions to using Polestar, Voyager or Web Intelligence?
How would you like these features being integrated in the XI suite? As a standalone tool? A Polestar, or Web Intelligence extension? A specific analytic?…

And remember, this is a prototype only and NOT for use in production environments.