Insights

As a learning organisation, element61 stimulates its consultants to further build on their already vast experiences through investments in a personal development plan and a company-wide content development initiative. Through formal training, presence at industry events, networking, recommended reading and internet based information exchange, our consultants further dive into specialized topics of their own interest.

These result in what we call "Insights", own produced research content, often complemented by personal experiences and opinions. Below you can find our currently published list of Insights.

Term without link
Off
Insights

NPrinting – What it is and why you will like it - Functionalities and Benefits of Qlik NPrinting 17

Introduction The strength and the beauty of QlikView lies in its powerful associative engine and zero wait analytics functionality. In these characteristics we think QlikView stands head and shoulders above other tools. This being said – QlikView is not the best report writing tool. QlikView has been lacking state-of-the-art capabilities to produce hard copies and schedule reports.
Friday, 29 April 2016
Insights

Oracle HFM Basics and comparison to SAP BPC

In this insight, we try to do a side-by-side comparison of the main functionality of Oracle HFM against SAP BPC, 2 of the leading solutions in the Gartner Corporate/Enterprise Performance Management Magic Quadrant. Both solutions are trying to address one of the major functionalities of CPM : financial consolidation and management reporting. Short History of Hyperion-Oracle Hyperion started as an independent company IMRS in 1981. Its focus has always been on the EPM-market, initially consolidation. Some major milestones of the company included :
Friday, 15 May 2015
Insights

Automate your ETL testing and deliver quicker and better results

Testing ETL projects - used for Extracting data, Transforming it according to reporting requirements and Loading it into the data warehouse - is very complex because of many reasons. Typically huge amounts of data are handled and data comes often from multiple sources that need to be combined. Sometimes, the data is loaded incrementally, sometimes it needs to be reloaded in full. These ETL-flows can also apply all kinds of complex calculations and transformations on the data.
Wednesday, 25 February 2015