Snap a pivoting data screen into Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch and instantly get in-depth business intelligence (BI) functionality with ComponentOne OLAP™ for LightSwitch. Create interactive views and reports similar to those found in Microsoft Excel Pivot tables and charts. Drag-and-drop interaction gives you real-time information, insights, and results in seconds. All this without cubes or code!

What's Inside?

Features

Code-free Data Analysis

To create a pivoting data analyzer, just add the OLAP screen to a LightSwitch application and connect to a data source. It’s that easy. Run your application and go.

Efficient Data Handling

It is common to analyze large data sets in pivoting views. OLAP loads data sets incremtally rather than all at once to ensure optimized performance.

Dynamic Views

Dynamically create data views by dragging fields into the row, column, and value lists. This will give you a summary of your data. You can also summarize your data by modifying the filters. The UI is similar to Microsoft Excel.

Subtotals and Grand Totals

The OLAP Grid automatically calculates grand totals for each slice of your data. If you measure multiple dimensions the OLAP Grid can also calculate subtotals with collapsible headers.

Multiple Value Fields

You may add as many value fields to a view as you want. This enables users to aggregate totals for multiple measures from the data set. For example, create a view that compares both total revenue and cost side-by-side.

Conditional Formatting

Conditional formatting allows you to draw attention to values that meet certain criteria. Format thresholds may be specified as absolute values or as percentages. For example, apply a unique style for values in the top 10% and another style for values in the bottom 10%.

Instant Charts

A chart is automatically created when you set up a view. Five different chart types (Bar, Column, Area, Line, and Scatter), automatic tooltips, stacking, and palette selection are supported.

Export Data

Just click a button and export your grid view to CSV, HTML, or TXT.

Report Printing

Directly print all of the data views in a single report. Users can customize scaling, page margins, headers and footers, and insert time stamps, page counts, and a title for the report.

Filtering

To narrow down the data pool, use the filter feature. You can filter on multiple fields. Just right-click on the field you would like to filter and select Field Settings. From the Field Settings dialog box, you can create your custom text filter. No coding required.

Totals and Aggregates

Choose from many different aggregations for the totals (Value field). Choose from Sum, Count, Average, Maximum, Minimum, First, Last, Variance, Standard Deviation, and Variance Population.

Data Formatting

Format the value field in the Field Settings dialog. Select from decimal, currency, and percentage formats; or create custom format strings.

Drill-Down Data

You can see the underlying records behind each aggregated value in the OLAP grid by double-clicking any cell.

Save/Load Views

Once a user creates a view, the user can save it for reloading later.

Scrolling Charts

OLAP will present large charts in a scrolling area, making them more presntable.