Level-Up Excel’s Data Analysis Capabilities with Kyvos’ Gen AI-Powered Semantic Layer

There is no denying Excel’s versatility when it comes to Excel data analysis. For some users, Excel helps them perform basic to complex calculations, create formulas, drill down into specific data points and create compelling visualizations to gain deeper insights.

While Excel empowers data analysts with a comprehensive toolkit, its capabilities are stretched thin in today’s era of billion-scale datasets. Operations like calculations, sorting and filtering become incredibly slow and complex as the formulas are recalculated every time a change is made to a pivot table. This leads to crashes, timeouts and sluggishness. Due to these limitations, Excel can become unresponsive, or it might become challenging for data analysts to process all the data correctly, compromising the performance and integrity of insights. Besides this, uncovering complex insights by defining intricate formulas and building complex data models might necessitate the need for advanced Excel data analysis skills or IT support.

Therefore, wouldn’t it be amazing if users could continue using the familiar Excel interface while unlocking the power to handle massive data volumes? Kyvos can make this happen. It acts as a bridge to establish a live connection between Excel and the organization’s cloud data platform without the need for manual data imports. Let’s see how:

Improve Excel’s Data Analysis Performance with Kyvos

Kyvos is a Gen AI-powered semantic layer that seamlessly integrates with the Excel environment. It allows users to access billions of rows of data on the cloud without hindering performance. The layer acts as a central hub that organizes, simplifies and accelerates the consumption of unified data to provide a consistent, standardized and trusted view using any BI tool, including Excel.

Kyvos’ AI-based smart aggregation technology empowers every user to engage with KPIs more meaningfully. The platform empowers them to build optimized data models and conduct self-service data analysis on Excel. It helps users perform multidimensional analysis by creating complex calculations, multiple fact tables and custom roll-ups with minimal effort. Using Kyvos, users can handle complex data structures such as hierarchical schemas, calculated members, many-to-many relationships or even semi-additive measures.

With its automated incremental data refresh feature, organizations can stay current with their data as when new data arrives, instead of refreshing the whole dataset, Kyvos intelligently identifies the latest information and updates only the changed sections.

Furthermore, Kyvos offers an analytical data store that allows businesses to store raw and aggregated data in a single, unified analytical warehouse to eliminate silos. Since all the data is stored in one place, query responses are much faster and organizations don’t have to spend money on multiple warehouses.

Democratized Data Access with Kyvos Copilot

While Excel is a powerful tool, defining complex KPIs becomes a bit challenging as it involves writing intricate formulas using query languages, such as SQL and MDX. With Kyvos’ KPI designer assistant, users can explain the KPI they need in plain English. The Copilot understands the intent and returns the MDX formula to use in Excel. Apart from this, using Kyvos’ Query Playground, BI users can fire queries directly to the semantic model and can get answers to ad-hoc queries without writing technical queries. This way, Kyvos empowers power users to perform self-service Excel data analysis by creating and analyzing complex KPIs with ease.

Advanced Analytics on Cloud-Scale Data with Kyvos Excel Add-in

In addition to its core benefits for Excel, Kyvos offers an Excel Add-in that empowers users to design business communication materials that are aligned with Intelligent Business Communication Standards (IBCS) best practices. These practices encompass conceptual, semantic, perceptual and design aspects of charts and tables, promoting clarity and consistency across organizations.

Interactive pivot tables and charts

Kyvos Grids are specifically designed to help users perform multidimensional analysis and explore complex datasets from multiple perspectives. They offer features like advanced selections based on various attributes, embedded charting to visualize data within the grid, custom calculations for user-specific Excel data analysis needs and full interactivity to foster an in-depth understanding of information.

Advanced visualizations and custom formula reporting

Using Kyvos Add-in, businesses can move from static to dynamic charts that are visually effective in highlighting trends and patterns in data. Users can delve deeper by filtering and drilling down to the granular level of these reports. The custom formula reporting feature enables using conditional formatting to create highly customizable and sophisticated reports. With conditional statements, users have total control over layout, formatting and dynamic reporting that can highlight crucial information and guide them toward key takeaways.

Governed sharing and scheduled distribution

With Kyvos, the reports and dashboards can be published across the enterprise to provide a single version of the truth. Enterprise-wide users can interact with the published reports directly from the browser. It also helps secure reports from unauthorized access, as users need to incorporate their existing active directory roles, groups and SSO authentication into Kyvos to provide authorized users with folder-level access rights.

The Add-in also comes with row and column-level security at a user or group level to hide dimensions, measures or rows for a specific set of users. Additionally, users can utilize the scheduled distribution of reports feature to set the necessary parameters, such as what is to be sent and when. Once set, the reports are sent automatically via email so that users do not have to worry about missing any critical information.

For organizations, it isn’t simply about faster queries or handling larger files; it’s about utilizing data to its full potential. Kyvos redefines the role Excel can play in modern businesses. It enables enterprise-wide users to access insights within the familiar environment of Excel without having to learn new technologies.

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