| | OLAP-Driven Collaborative Portals: Everyone in the Pool! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | In many smaller enterprises, the IT adult is not often present, or very busy, and the data used to collaborate on decisions is captured and tracked not in the context of a BI suite but in individual Excel spreadsheets. |
 | | This is a very low- cost mechanism, but the extraction of relevant information and the ability to juxtapose different pieces of data becomes a challenge unless all the kids are very good at pivot tables or programming in Visual Basic. |
 | | For these people, collaborating on a report or analysis session becomes as simple as sending a link from your favorite news portal - the only requirement for the collaboration is a browser, connection to the Internet, and a need to know. |
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