Pyramid Analytics

Prepare your data model well in order to provide well working large scale solutions.

There is a real in-memory db (imdb) strong engine in Pyramid that you can use.

Look at what business need your BI tool should serve. If your data is not extremely large, but not very organized and is stored in a lot of different sources Pyramid can be a great option. In addition, if you don't have a lot of technical personal, Pyramid is a great solution - as you can run ETL, complex models and even create reports with Gen BI with no code at all. If you need a power-horse to run large tasks and models Pyramid probably won't be my first choice.

Good product for self service analytics, good for creating and publishing dashboards, embedded features are very good, robust API support.

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Focus on and learn the modeling portion inside and out. Extra time spent on getting skillful in this area will be paid back with the ease of creating visuals and dashboards. Also, set enterprise-level naming conventions and standards early on. It can be difficult to detangle these problems after implementation.

Leistungsstarke (virtuelle) Server verwenden. Support nur auf Englisch.

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A complete Enterprise BI tool, paginated reports to advanced forecasting techniques and visualizations. All managed.

Ensure that all features are fully operational through your setup before delving too deeply into report creation. We've encountered issues with single sign-on, website addresses, mobile sites, and AI tools. Although these were not always issues caused by Pyramid, it's worthwhile to resolve these matters before granting access to users.

Allocate dedicated and skilled human resources to use it to gain value.

Can do what many other systems can do, can map data from multiple sources on same dashboard.

If you want a user-friendly self-service BI solution, Pyramid is a great choice.

Deutsche Ansprechpartner (CRM) haben in den letzten Jahren häufig gewechselt, was die Zusammenarbeit erschwert hat. Es wurden wichtige Funktionen bei bestimmten Updates einfach wieder weggenommen, also testet vorher die Versionen und Funktionen vor der Inbetriebnahme.

I would advise spending some time on the governance side as Pyramid provides a great opportunity to get your data organized with the semantic layer and organize and classify the data.

Understanding the use cases for managing security of data and content ahead of time will make installation and rollout easier (i.e., number of servers and roles).

Not all data sources are ideal for Pyramid: We are using OLAP cubes and this causes many options to be unavailable for us.

The data model will drive all reporting, spend the time to get this right and to have a common taxonomy.

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Modellierung und Basis für die Analysen sollten vom Fachbereich her getrieben werden - nicht von der IT. Ansonsten sind die Ergebnisse nicht zielführend. Keine Angst vor dem semantischen Layer - das lohnt sich.

Work directly with Pyramid. Saves time and money.

Spend the time upfront to REALLY learn modeling and get in deep with it. Along those lines, spend whatever time is necessary to build out your model completely before getting into developing visuals, reports and dashboards. Also, if there's something the product doesn't seem to do that you need it to, ask one of their engineers...It either already has the ability to do it, or can easily be extended through the use of scripts (in modeling for example). Their support engineers are incredibly knowledgeable and helpful...lean heavily on those resources.

Find a good service and implementation partner that chases your bugs for you (instead of chasing them yourself).

It helped to set training session three times a week for a few weeks with our developers and their consultant in order to gain basic proficiency to create reports. The tutorial videos were not enough to address the specific data request we were implementing.

Do research and compare and have multiple companies use a version of live datasets to show you what you are trying to achieve with the product.

Make sure to get both product and developer servers up and running first thing, don't wait to implement one.

Stay up to date and informed on all updates Pyramid is performing.

Take a good look at Pyramid, understand how it will work in with your data sources and in your corporate environment, including security/ SSO.