palooca basics (2): broaden your horizon: two is not enough

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Broaden Your Horizon: Two Is Not Enough * * Open Source. Of Course. PalOOCa Basics (2):

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Page 1: PalOOCa Basics (2): Broaden Your Horizon: Two Is Not Enough

Broaden Your Horizon: Two Is Not Enough*

*Open Source. Of Course.

PalOOCa Basics (2):

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Have you ever wondered why your spreadsheet has only two dimensions?

x

y

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Something is missing.

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Just think of a simple figure: sales.Dimension In the spreadsheet

RegionTimeProductCustomer…

xy??

???

And what‘s about hierarchies?

Sales World

Sales EuropeSales North Am.Sales South Am.Sales AsiaSales …

Sales FranceSales UKSales GermanySales ItalySales …

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Your spreadsheet cannot do that alone.

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Don‘t worry!

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There is a solution…

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…you should use a multidimensional data storage.

We can help you with this!

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PalOOCa* provides multidimensional data analysis for your OpenOffice.org Calc* spreadsheets using the OLAP-server Palo*.

Learn more: palooca.sourceforge.net

*Open Source. Of Course.

Images taken from Flickr, special thanks to users:

shexbeer, pyza*, graciesusie and nitot