Sunday, November 12, 2006

Acumen's Sales Data Mart - Sales Reveal

Acumen Book released its sales data mart product for book publishers; Sales Reveal, in 2005. We have spoken with publishers using it and they are very pleased. Why? It cost less than competitive products; such as Business Objects and Cognos, and is easy to use. They can import data into it from any data source, not just Acumen.

With Sales Reveal, sales data is imported into an SQL data warehouse that automatically builds datacubes. Sales analysis options includes drill downs and drill ups in addition to built in exports to excel and adobe PDF files.

The sales reveal web site utilizes Flash audio and video to highlight the functionality of this software.

We find it interesting to note that Sales Reveal is Cyberwolf's (aka Acumen Books's) second SQL Product, the first one being their SQL driven E-commerce solution for book publishers: PowerWeb.

I wonder if they are planning to offer book publishers using Acumen Book a Microsoft SQL database option in the future?

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