Name: Strategy Companion Analyzer
Author: Strategy Companion

Help Desk

Web and Video Conferencing

Customer Support

Version Control

Development

Alumni Management

Education

Business Intelligence (BI)

Collaboration

Contract Management

Enterprise Legal Management

Policy Management

Project Portfolio Management

Enterprise

Accounting

Finance and Accounting

Applicant Tracking

Corporate Learning Management

HR Management

HR Service Delivery

Payroll

Talent Intelligence

Talent Management

Workforce Analytics

Workforce Management

Human Resources

Cloud Storage

Converged Network Adapters (CNAs)

Data Catalog

Data Center Networking

Data Integration

Database Load Balancing

Density-Optimized Servers

Fraud Detection

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)

Managed DNS

Managed File Transfer (MFT)

Managed Hosting

Mobile Application Performance Monitoring  (APM)

Mobile Device Management (MDM)

Network Diagnostics

Network Performance Monitoring

NoSQL Databases

Observability

Server Management

Time Series Databases

Unified Endpoint Management (UEM)

Information Technology

A/B Testing

Account-Based Marketing (ABM)

Ad Serving & Retargeting

All-in-One Marketing

Audio Editing

Content Management

Contest Management

Customer Journey Analytics

Digital Asset Management

Email Marketing

Marketing Analytics

Marketing Automation

Mobile Advertising

Mobile Analytics

Press Release Management

Product Information Management (PIM)

Social Media Analytics

Social Media Management

Survey & Forms Building

Video Collaboration

Web Analytics

Marketing

Project Management

Wireframing

Professional Services

Call Recording

Customer Communication Management

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Presales

Sales

Civil Engineering

Construction Workforce Management

Dental

Loan Servicing

Patient Engagement

Revenue Cycle Management (RCM)

Vertical-Specific

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Users have provided several recommendations for the software based on their experiences. The three most common recommendations are as follows:

1. Try the trial version before purchasing: Users recommend taking advantage of the trial version to evaluate the software's capabilities and determine if it meets their specific needs.

2. Thoroughly research and evaluate before making a decision: It is advised to conduct thorough research and evaluation of the product before making a purchasing decision. This ensures that the software aligns with the user's requirements and expectations.

3. Suitable for quick analysis and efficient presentation: Users recommend the software for those already familiar with mdx cubes and satisfied with cube processing times. They find it useful for quick analysis and efficient presentation of information, but acknowledge its limitations in creating highly complex and bespoke documents.

Overall, users emphasize the importance of thoroughly assessing the software through trials and research, ensuring it aligns with their specific needs before making a purchasing decision.

Strategy Companion Analyzer is a versatile software that helps businesses in various sectors tackle multiple challenges. The product has been most notably utilized for inventory management, promotion optimization, and accelerating new product launches in the retail industry. Users are pleased with the flexible templates and advanced filtering capabilities that enable them to build customized reports quickly and effectively.

The user-friendly interface and well-designed charts and graphs provide comprehensive insights into business data, facilitating informed decision-making for management. The ability to present business data from a macro to detail level perspective allows users to identify performance gaps, pinpoint trends, and take the right steps towards improving sales. Moreover, Strategy Companion Analyzer provides a reliable solution for CPG companies looking to solve inventory and pricing issues in retail stores that sell their products. By analyzing the retailer POS and inventory data, customers can optimize their client base and improve overall supply chain needs. These features make Strategy Companion Analyzer an essential tool for businesses looking to boost their sales while cutting down on costs.

Flexible Customization: Reviewers have praised the software's flexibility and power, allowing users to customize formatting and measures. The tool is highly customizable according to some users, who found it easy to create metrics on the fly with custom measures. Others appreciated the ability to consolidate different groups of information using group tables.

Ease of Use: Many reviewers noted how intuitive Analyzer interface was, resembling Excel pivot tables and allowing users to apply their Excel skills in a web-based analytics tool. Users appreciated its ease of use and scalability that enables them to efficiently generate and share reporting models. Some also were pleased with the ad hoc analysis capabilities which are powerful yet simple.

Visual Options: A wide range of visual options available has impressed many users who found it visually impressive. The ability to create graphical reports quickly and efficiently, especially interactive maps, was noted by some as a significant advantage over other tools. Additionally, exporting reports from Analyzer into Excel, PowerPoint or PDF format proved helpful for several reviewers.

Poor Performance: Some users have experienced poor performance, particularly when working with large data sets or using advanced features. This has resulted in frustration and lost time for those who rely on the software for their work.

Limited Documentation/Support: Several reviewers have noted that there is little to no documentation or support available for more advanced functionality. As a result, some users feel like they are not able to fully utilize the potential of the software and may be missing out on valuable insights.

Non-Intuitive Functionality: Many casual users struggle with getting started due to non-intuitive functionality. Filtering and custom calculations can be difficult to use, which can lead to bad data pulls and misleading results.

Analyzer from Strategy Companion headquartered in Irvine provides a self-service business intelligence solution that allows managers to explore, visualize, publish, and share actionable insights in minutes. Users can ask questions of their data to uncover trends, opportunities, and projections.

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Strategy Companion

BI Platform

Administration via Windows App

Administration via MacOS App

Administration via Web Interface

Live Connection to External Data

Snapshot of External Data

In-memory data model

OLAP (Pre-processed cube representation)

ROLAP (SQL-layer querying)

Multi-Data Source Reporting (Blending)

Data warehouse / dictionary layer

ETL Capability

ETL Scheduler

Supported Data Sources

Data sources that can be consumed by the application.

MS Excel Workbooks

Text Files (CSV, etc)

Oracle

MS SQL Server

IBM DB2

Postgres

MySQL

ODBC

Cloudera Hadoop

Hortonworks Hadoop

EMC Greenplum

IBM Netezza

HP Vertica

ParAccel

SAP Hana

Teradata

Sage 500

Google Analytics

BI Standard Reporting

Standard reporting means pre-built or canned reports available to users without having to create them.

Pixel Perfect reports

Pixel Perfect reports are highly-formatted reports with graphics and ability to preview the report before printing.

Customizable dashboards

Customizable dashboards are dashboards providing the builder some degree of control over the look and feel and display options.

Report Formatting Templates

Ad-hoc Reporting

Ad-Hoc Reports are reports built by the user to meet highly specific requirements.

Drill-down analysis

Drill down analysis is the ability to get to a further level of detail by going deeper into the hierarchy.

Formatting capabilities

Ability to format output e.g. conditional formatting, lines, headers, footers.

Predictive modeling

Predictive modeling is the ability to build future forecasting models.

Integration with R or other statistical packages

Integration with the open-source R predictive modeling environment.

Report sharing and collaboration

Report sharing and collaboration is the ability to easily share reports with others.

Report Output and Scheduling

Ability to schedule and manager report output.

Publish to Web

Publish to PDF

Output Raw Supporting Data

Report Versioning

Report versioning is the assignment of version numbers to each version of a report to help in tracking.

Report Delivery Scheduling

Report Delivery Schedule is the ability to have reports delivered to a destination at a specific data and time.

Delivery to Remote Servers

Ability to deliver reports to remote servers

Data Discovery and Visualization

Data Discovery and Visualization is the analysis of multiple data sources in a search for patterns and outliers and the ability to represent the data visually.

Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)

Pre-built visualization formats are canned visualization types that can be selected to visualize different kinds of data.

Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

Location analytics is the visualization of geographical or spatial data.

Predictive Analytics

Predictive Analytics is the ability to build forecasting models based on existing data sets.

Support for Machine Learning models

Machine learning refers to computer programs that can learn when exposed to new data.

Pattern Recognition and Data Mining

Pattern recognition and data mining mean the ability to recognize hidden patterns in large quantities of data.

Access Control and Security

Access control means being able to determine who has access to which data.

Multi-User Support (named login)

Named model access means that users have access based on name and password.

Role-Based Security Model

Role-based access means that access to data is determined by job or position in the corporation.

Strategy Companion Analyzer

Overview

What is Strategy Companion Analyzer?