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Managing Spreadsheet Risk
For many years, software vendors have predicted the death of the spreadsheet, yet spreadsheets continue to play an important role for nearly every company inthe world. In fact, studies have found that 95% of U.S. companies use spreadsheets in their financial reporting process. Despite their importance, many companies consider a spreadsheet to be nothing more than an end-user tool. Surprisingly few companies have safeguards in place to ensure the accuracy of their spreadsheets given the critical role that they play.
Applied OLAP, founded in 1998, is the world's foremost expert in enterprise-wide Essbase spreadsheet applications. The Dodeca Spreadsheet Management System is trusted by companies, ranging in size from midmarket to Fortune 100 to reduce risk and increase productivity.
Dodeca Spreadsheet Management System makes it easy for corporate spreadsheet users to build reports dynamically from any number of corporate data sources, including Oracle Essbase and any relational database. For IT, Dodeca provides the ability to manage spreadsheet resources and ensure that they are built accurately every time. For Internal Audit, Dodeca controls and manages spreadsheets to give access only to authorized users.
New Dodeca 8 with EssJet Technology brings many new functional enhancements to an already great system - including:
- Concurrent Essbase Retrievals - Introduces EssJet technology, which allows Dodeca to run multiple Essbase retrieves, or sends, at the same time. Dodeca can now simultaneously run multiple queries from a single sheet or from multiple sheets in a workbook, which greatly enhances performance.
- Asynchronous Environment - Allows most processes, including Essbase data and metadata queries, commentary queries, and startup functionalities, to run in the background freeing the user-interface for more interaction while providing the option to cancel processes.
- Commentary Significantly improves commentary retrieval performance.
- Workbook Analyzer and Cleaner The Dodeca Workbook Analyzer can analyze and clean Excel workbooks. This gives an administrator the ability to clean old workbooks which often contain unnecessary artifacts such as dead Excel links, #REF range names, extraneous styles, and unused Smart View data streams.
- HFM Connector Dodeca can retrieve data from Hyperion Financial Management databases allowing integration with Essbase and Relational data.
- Essbase member search enhancements Full wildcard searches of an Essbase member or alias are now supported.
- Expandable shared member hierarchies Shared members can be expanded in the Treeview Selector to show the descendants of the base member.
- Single Sign-On (SSO) Support Dodeca supports Single Sign-On using the SAML2 protocol, including the option for Multi-Factor Authentication, provided by Identification Providers such as Okta, Ping, and JumpCloud.
Some of the key features and functionality:
- Centralized Repository
- Security
- Speed of Thought Analytics
- Write-back
- Drill through
- Version Control
- Audit Logs
- Commentary
- Risk Mitigation
- Distribution
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Dodeca
Dodeca Spreadsheet Management System makes it easy for corporate spreadsheet users to build reports dynamically from any number of corporate data sources, including Essbase and any relational database. For IT, Dodeca provides the ability to manage spreadsheet resources and ensure that they are built accurately every time. For Internal Audit, Dodeca controls and manages spreadsheets to give access only to authorized users.