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Workstation Plus
Experience the power of information

One of the challenges facing organizations today is the need to extract actionable information from the vast amounts of data available.  A wealth of information is locked away in a variety of database formats.  Workstation Plus is a sophisticated, feature-rich, powerful On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) tool that can help you to access the data and, ultimately, the insights you require to compete in the market place.

Workstation Plus printed output

An integrated Windows-based application, Workstation Plus is designed to quickly facilitate the on-going retrieval, integration, analysis and presentation of information for marketing and sales decision support.  From simple queries to complex analytics, Workstation Plus offers user-friendly tools which allow businesses to interact with data from multiple databases and various sources of information. This means less time spent on retrieving and sifting through information and more time on strategic and tactical planning.

Join the over 27,000 licenced business analysts, quantitative experts, and IT professionals worldwide who use Workstation Plus. Successfully compete in your marketplace  with business intelligence obtained through the power of Workstation Plus.

Graphics

  • Apply analyses, and easily switch between tabular and graphic representations of the data.

  • Utilize charts with multi-axis, exploded pie segments and drill directly on graph elements to traverse hierarchies.

Report Templates

  • Formulate queries to populate pre-created report templates, or intuitively create, run, and re-use ad-hoc reports.

Drilling

  • Drill anywhere to reveal information in greater detail. Traverse a hierarchy or skip any number of levels for exceedingly simple navigation of a database.

Generator Scripts

  • Run reports on demand, timed to run during off-peak hours or triggered by a certain event.

Formatting

  • Format individual or multiple cells.

  • Drag and Drop to customize report content and layout. Pivot data to help discover patterns in your information.

  • Apply powerful pre-retrieval Conditions to your data selection to Rank or Filter the data to be retrieved. Rank the top/bottom number or percentage of records, or filter any unwanted information based on any condition you enter.

Rank, share, accumulate sums and add graphics

Intuitive Data Selection

  • Simply navigate a personal database or corporate data warehouse.

  • Share, modify, and create time-saving selection Groups.

Find the information you need, quickly and easily, with an intuitive user interface and dynamic search engine.

Rule-Based Data Mining

  • Experience the full power of the calculation facility with Expressions that can span dimensions and databases. Take advantage of aggregation methods (sum, average, count, minimum, maximum) and flexible built-in functions.

  • Employ multi-step, post-retrieval Analysis Rules to the result set for additional data filtering and highlighting of exceptions. Analyses enable you to colour text, colour headings, insert comments, rank, sort, sum, share, and hide values.

 Viewer Files

  • Enable remote users to utilize Workstation Plus functionality without accessing a database or making data selections.

  • Interact with reports while eliminating inflexible, static reporting.

  • Create highly compressed files for easy and efficient distribution to remote users.

Automated Narratives

  • Add comments and insights using powerful, Automated Narratives which reflect current information and vary by OLAP page. The result of an Automated Narrative is a customized observation that will filter through the data, displaying relevant comments based on user defined rules.

Microsoft Integration

  • Easily Generate your output to Microsoft® Excel® , Microsoft PowerPoint®, Microsoft Word® and HTML.

  • Effortlessly navigate through reports using a Table of Contents created for all Excel or HTML output.

  • Incorporate the power and familiarity of Microsoft Excel spreadsheets through hot-linking.  Use the Workstation Plus OLAP toolbar to scroll through the items (OLAP Pages) while still in Excel.

Workstation Plus offers an active Link to Excel.

Output to HTML.  Navigate the report using a Table of Contents.

Technical Support Centre

Our software is supported by Nielsen associates with an intricate knowledge of the software, it's functions and applications. Our Technical Support Centre is available to assist you in achieving your desired result so that every time you use Workstation Plus, you obtain the utmost utility.

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