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Interesting Forecasting or OLAP book?

Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 8:32 pm
by 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

Re: Interesting Forecasting or OLAP book?

Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 10:32 pm
by rkaif
May be you want to consider this one:

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

Re: Interesting Forecasting or OLAP book?

Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 11:10 pm
by Martin Ryan
Thanks, I was thinking something more easy to read. An informational type book, rather than a text book.

Re: Interesting Forecasting or OLAP book?

Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 11:19 pm
by Alan Kirk
Martin Ryan wrote: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.

Re: Interesting Forecasting or OLAP book?

Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2011 9:05 am
by 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.

Re: Interesting Forecasting or OLAP book?

Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2011 8:17 pm
by 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.