PowerPlay is the platform for MarketStance desktop applications.
(Excerpted from www.cognos.com) Cognos PowerPlay® is the best selling
OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) software.
It lets users analyze huge volumes of
data, create reports and share them to
make decisions.
PowerPlay is built to optimize the performance
of multidimensional queries. Those involving
comparison of things, such as product
or channel performance, can be seen in
light of other important business factors
like regions, account size and industry.
The software automatically categorizes
details by the factors that influence
decision-making. These factors are called
dimensions. By allowing managers and analysts
to study information in the way they think,
across multiple dimensions at the same
time, PowerPlay enables excellent visibility
into data.
Three simple capabilities allow users
to analyze data from any point of view:
- Drill down - to easily move from
one level of information to the next
- Slicing and dicing - to change
the active dimensions to get another view
of the data
- Changing displays - view the
data in different formats, including tables,
charts and graphs.
Additional features for data exploration
include: - Ranking, sorting and filtering
- Drill through
- Find
- Subsets
- Nested crosstabs and charts
- Excel output
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