Panorama and Alchemex spearhead 'analytics as a service' push

Posted by AccountingWEB PM | on Fri, 13/06/2008 - 10:41  4941  1 comment

The recent addition of a pivot table gadget for Google Spreadsheets signalled the beginnings of an online attack on Microsoft Excel's hold over business analysis. John Stokdyk reports

Google's Analytics Gadget can automatically extract and summarise data into a pivot table and is a great way to construct online performance charts.

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Too good to be true?

John Stokdyk | Fri, 13/06/2008 - 15:50 | Permalink

I'm sorry to disappoint readers, but I was looking to construct a simple Google pivot chart to illustrate this article, but the beta test system appears to be swamped by demand.

The gadget that you can add straight into your iGoogle page repeatedly timed out before it could generate a chart and when I attempted to use the gadget within Google spreadsheets, the Panorama teaminformed me: "Oops, The system is currently being used by the maximum number of supported users in this beta phase, please try in a few moments again.Thanks for your patience as we work hard to release this product."

I will try again later, at a less popular hour than Friday afternoon. For the moment, I will have to console themselves by looking through the online Panorama tutorial.

John Stokdyk
Technology editor
AccountingWEB.co.uk

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