Spreadsheets:: Multidimensionable Analysis Features

Abstract

For many years, I have been recommending Reflex (published by Borland International) as a tool for analyzing financial and statistical data. My primary reason for this recommendation has been that Reflex allowed me to cross‐tabulate data. If you want to look at the year's financial data broken down, for example, by month‐by cost center‐by line item, you are essentially dictating that you want to do a crosstab. Reflex has a built‐in “view” that allows you to construct a two dimensional table that, with data limiting capabilities, yields a surprisingly diverse and multidimensional look at your data. In fact, I installed a financial reporting system in a library back in 1987 that was based on Reflex. In 1993 the library finally changed over to a commercial reporting system (costing thousands of dollars) that replaced Reflex. Yet, the old system provided a fairly flexible reporting and analysis system.

Citation

Clark, P.M. (1994), "Spreadsheets:: Multidimensionable Analysis Features", The Bottom Line, Vol. 7 No. 2, pp. 38-39. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb025415