• Connecting Power BI Desktop to a SQL Server Analysis Services Database

    Connecting Power BI Desktop to a SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) database is a crucial step in leveraging the full power of your data analytics. This tutorial will guide you through the process, from launching Power BI Desktop to successfully connecting to your SSAS tabular server. Follow t...

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  • Connecting Power BI Desktop to an Azure Analysis Services Database

    Connecting Power BI Desktop to an Azure Analysis Services (AAS) database enables robust data analytics capabilities. This tutorial walks you through each step, from launching Power BI Desktop to successfully connecting to your AAS database. Follow these instructions to ensure a smooth connectio...

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  • How do I create a Trailing 12 Month (TTM) report?

    This article contains the following topics:  Overview of TTM How to create a TTM scenario Using a TTM in a report Notes What is TTM? Trailing 12 months (TTM) describes the past 12 consecutive months (or four quarters) to date on a rolling basis of a company’s financial performance data. The 12 ...

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  • How hierarchy changes can impact Visualizations

    In this article we'll go over how your Catalyst configuration can impact your Catalyst Visualizations. Background Your Catalyst instance comes with Visualizations that display commonly used reporting packages in interactive charts, graphs, and tables. These reports are built using the hierarchy...

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  • How to roll forward or update a TTM

    Trailing Twelve Months (TTM) scenarios play a crucial role in financial planning and reporting, offering a dynamic view of performance over the past twelve months, and they're really easy to create in Catalyst. This tutorial guides you through the process of updating your TTM scenario to includ...

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  • How to subscribe to Visualizations

    Catalyst Visualizations are reports built using BI technology that present your data in visually immersive and interactive models giving you actionable and insightful reporting dashboards. This article contains the following topics:  Intro Instructions Definitions Intro  Once a report has been...

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  • How to update Visualizations after updating hierarchy structure

    If you're using Catalyst Visualizations and make a change to the structure of a hierarchy it may impact your visualization. It's relatively easy to fix that using PowerBI Service or Desktop following the steps below. Error One way to know that a hierarchy change resulted in a visualization error ...

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  • How to update your Catalyst Visualizations

    Each Catalyst website has a Visualizations section, which displays graphical representations of your data from the cube. Usually there will be a Financial and Profitability dashboard prebuilt for you, but you may have other reports as well. These reports are built using Microsoft PowerBI tools, w...

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  • Query Builder

    Query Builder is a tool that allows you to quickly sort, filter, aggregate, and view large subsets of data and export to Excel or CSV. It's used when the standard Cube files aren't adequate, especially when the dataset gets a bit too big to visualize coherently. Think of it like SQL for dummies! ...

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  • Reporting Overview

    Catalyst offers many templatized reporting packages for you and your group, which you can view right in Catalyst under the Reporting tab.  Types of Reports Three Scenario Compare Calendarized Condensed View MTD-QTD-YTD Full Year Pivot Report Trend Analysis Rate Volume Mix Journal Entry Financial...

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  • Visualizations and Microsoft Power BI

    As a Microsoft partner, EBM utilizes Microsoft Power BI, which is a business intelligence tool that analyzes and visualizes data to help organizations make data-driven decisions. Power BI can connect to different data sets, clean and transform the data into a data model, and create charts and gr...

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