Interesting Forecasting or OLAP book?

[Martin Ryan]

Can anyone recommend an interesting book on something TM1 related? Could be budgeting/forecasting or modelling with OLAP or anything. Nothing too techy, something you might give to a CFO.

TIA,
Martin

[rkaif]

May be you want to consider this one:

http://www.amazon.ca/dp/0471200247

[Martin Ryan]

Thanks, I was thinking something more easy to read. An informational type book, rather than a text book.

[Alan Kirk]

Thanks, I was thinking something more easy to read. An informational type book, rather than a text book.

As long as you don't have a CFO who gets into a self-important knickers twist over the title and appreciates substance over form, the "For Dummies" series really does provide good "Betty and Jim" level introductions to a number of topics for people who don't have much experience with them. I haven't personally read this title but the contents section seems promising for the sort of thing that you have in mind.

Yeah, it's still 345 pages. But if you want a 2 pager/Executive Summary/Designed For The Attention Deficit Afflicted thing, you ain't gonna find it unless you write it yourself, I think.

[mikko]

One I found very interesting is http://www.amazon.com/Future-Ready-Mast ... 0470747056. It's totally non-technical and there's no a word of TM1 but gives nice picture of the business cases that TM1 is usually dealing with.

[Martin Ryan]

Thanks Mikko, that looks like it might work well.

Alan, sounds like a good book but as it's part of a sales engagement idea I don't want to risk offending any dummies.