From the monthly archives:

December 2009

Vacation Time!

December 23, 2009

Season’s greetings!
It’s time again to take a short break for the holidays and enjoy some fun time with the family. So I’ll be doing just that for the next few days, and I trust that you can and will too.
Another year has raced by, and I hope that over the next year you’ll choose to [...]

0 comments Read more...

Easy Ways to Benefit from Automating Monarch

December 21, 2009

When you read the word “computerization”, do you think of what can be done with software or do you think of the ways that computers can automate many of our tasks?
The first Industrial Revolution began in the 18th century, and from that time until about the middle of the 20th century, and during that period [...]

0 comments Read more...

Monarch is the Solution to Fiscal Year Troubles

December 17, 2009

Conventional software works just fine for date based analysis if your fiscal year starts on January 1st. Excel will happily let you group dates placed in pivot tables as row or column fields into months, quarters or years. You’ll have nice looking and accurate summary tools in no time – if your fiscal dates match [...]

0 comments Read more...

Embedding Documentation for Better Monarch Models

December 15, 2009

It’s Day 19 of the 30 Days to Become a Better Monarch Modeler series and one of the last Monarch features to comment on is, well, commenting.
To date in this series we’ve touched on, if not elaborated on, virtually every aspect and feature of Monarch software. Given the possible complexity of the modeling work with [...]

0 comments Read more...

Reusable Monarch

December 15, 2009

Aside from Monarch’s core functionality as a report mining tool for rapidly performing extraction, loading and transformation (ETL) tasks, its other primary advantage is the reusability of the model and project files that we create so that Monarch can handle just about any data source that we throw its way. But have you used existing [...]

3 comments Read more...

Share Your Story with Monarch

December 11, 2009

Over the course of the 30 Days to Become a Better Monarch Modeler series we’ve learned how to positively fill Monarch with actionable data. We’ve morphed reports that had content that was cast in stone into dynamic and practically living data that is now free to tell its once concealed story.
But all great stories need [...]

0 comments Read more...