Futrix's ability to let its users drill up, down, and across without being constrained by cube definitions or data hierarchies is one of the key attractions of this SAS-based Business Intelligence (BI) tool that has been around since 1997. The ease with which novice users can pick up and use Futrix belies other vendors' claims to ease-of-use. Futrix is ease-of-use personified.
But don't think that ease-of-use equals limited-in-ability. Aside from the ability to drill anywhere (including jumping from one table or cube to another whilst preserving your drill-level), Futrix allows dynamic grouping (for creating categorisations on the fly) and user-defined formulas. The information can be presented in a mixture of tables, charts and dashboards.
Beneath the user interface there's a sophisticated set of administrative tools that include a full security model and the ability to allow Futrix to dynamically tune cubes and its own aggregations.
Product development is rapid, and influenced by customer feedback.
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