Beyond Excel: Quantitative Data Analysis with Insightful

Presented: January 31, 2006

Speakers: David Smith, Senior Finance Product Manager, Insightful Corporation

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• Web cast presentation [PDF]
• Whitepaper: Delivering the Power of Predictive Analysis Across the Enterprise
• Features: Features of S-PLUS 7
• Brochures in PDF: S-PLUS 7 brochure and feature list
• Demo: S-PLUS 7 demo

Excel is commonly used to store and send financial data, but many people run into limitations when using it for large-scale quantitative analysis of financial data. Complex workbooks with multiple tabs and intertwined cell references can easily become difficult to maintain and validate. And of course, once the data grows beyond 65,000 records, Excel can no longer handle it.

In this presentation, you'll learn how Insightful software can help you deal with these limitations in Excel, by allowing you to analyze large data sets and quickly create reliable, maintainable analytic applications. An introduction to Insightful's data analysis products and description of how to integrate scalable quantitative data analysis in an Excel-based environment will also be discussed.