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Cartesis Performance Suite 10 Review |
| Author: Nigel Pendse An in-depth product evaluation and rating Cartesis adds planning and analysis to its existing consolidation application Having been sold in 2004 by PWC, thus freeing it from the constraints of being owned by an auditor in the age of Sarbanes-Oxley, Cartesis now finds itself in the hands of Business Objects, one of the top 5 vendors in the OLAP market. A full history of Cartesis is included in this review. Perhaps surprisingly given the changes in ownership, the core finance product, Cartesis Finance (CF), remains remarkably similar to its predecessor, Cartesis Magnitude 7.4, which we first reviewed back in 2002. Instead of product enhancements, Cartesis has sought to broaden its product line by acquisitions to include a planning application (from INEA) and a spreadsheet add-in (from Advance Info Systems) as well as partnerships with Microsoft and Panorama on the analytics side. We examine each element of Performance Suite 10 and assess how this approach places the product in relation to its competitors. While other products are sometimes constrained by their dimensionality, Cartesis Finance goes the other way with 13 pre-defined dimensions and up to 22 user-defined ('customer') dimensions. Nigel Pendse explains the relative merits and weaknesses of this, the most exuberant approach to dimensions in the OLAP industry. Other themes covered in this 29-page review include: - Hard-to-find pricing information - Reporting flexibility - including the improved WYSIWYG Report Designer - Nigel Pendse assesses over 20 metrics in his influential 'conclusions and scores' summary of Performance Suite 10
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