Why Lumel EPM
Lumel EPM offers the fastest way to build planning, budgeting, and forecasting reports, using a comprehensive set of features that enable a cutting-edge user experience.
8 reasons to choose Lumel EPM
1. Consolidate all data & analytics needs in Microsoft Fabric
Lumel EPM helps you retire legacy tools and deliver all analytics needs from BI software:
Retire visualization software like Tableau, Spotfire, and Qlik
Migrate from reporting tools like Cognos, WebFocus, SAP and more
Avoid spending on add-ons for PowerPoint reports such as ThinkCell and Mekko Graphics
Eliminate Excel-based worksheets used for maintaining forecasts, budgets, master data, pivot reports, and more
2. End-to-end Security and Governance
Lumel EPM is a native workload in Microsoft Fabric.
3. Built for business users with no coding experience
Lumel EPM is a no-code product built to support business users and casual users with zero coding skills. It automates a lot of activities for you that require you to write DAX or PowerQuery scripts or create applications using Microsoft PowerApps.
You can create the following without writing a single line of code:
Forecast templates
Financial statements
Commenting & collaboration
Data writeback
... and more
4. Get features 'highly voted' by industry peers
Lumel EPM delivers a variety of features that have repeatedly been requested in Power BI idea place and community forums.
In essence, these features are not available in Power BI today. While some can be implemented using workarounds, many of these are simply not achievable even with DAX and PowerQuery scripting.
5. Deliver functionality missing in Power BI
Using Lumel EPM, you can implement key features available in other BI tools, such as:
Visual PivotTable for your hierarchical data on all three axes (x,y,z) like Spotfire
Small multiple for all charts like Tableau and Spotfire
Split and group measures into small multiple panels like Tableau.
Flexible chart combinations in small multiples like Tableau
Lasso and reverse lasso selections like Qlik and Tableau
Small-multiple tables with Excel-like formatting
6. The best no-code writeback in the industry
Lumel EPM offers the best solution for writeback across all BI platforms (and not just Power BI). The no-code writeback capability enables use cases such as the following:
Persisting data that is edited, cleansed, or updated
Creating forecasts and budgets
Track comments and data-level conversations
Create scenarios and snapshots
... and more
7. Best practices and standards
Lumel EPM adopts a business-responsive design that can help users deliver IBCS-compliant business, management, variance, and performance reports in a single click. Lumel EPM offers a wide variety of charts and table templates, advanced small multiples, data-level comments, top N + others, pixel-perfect Export to PDF, and many more.
8. One-stop shop for all your needs
Procure visuals from one provider for all your requirements, ensuring standardization and ease of maintenance
Analytics+ with 50+ charts, cards & tables
Matrix for reporting and scheduling
Forecasting, planning, budgeting with writeback
Table editor with governance, workflow and audit
Project management / Gantt visual (xViz)
Performance flow for creating trees, process & network diagrams (xViz)
In the next section, we'll be looking at how to get started with Lumel EPM.
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