Clever old Panorama… just when you thought that it was about time for them to roll over and die, having been jilted by Microsoft and SAP, they team up with Google to do BI. From their blog, here’s the press release:
http://www.panorama.com/blog/?p=98
and more information is here:
http://google-pivot-tables.blogspot.com/
and there’s a tutorial here:
http://www.panorama.com/google/pivot-table/tutorial/
This is part of the wider Google announcements on Google Gadgets:
http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2008/03/collaboration-goes-one-level-deeper.html
and the Google Visualization API:
http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2008/03/introducing-google-visualization-api.html
http://code.google.com/apis/visualization/documentation/gadgetgallery.html
I need some time to digest this, but my first impression is that this is BIG. The PowerApps stuff sounds very interesting indeed.
I made a test run for Google motion chart and it works really well:
http://jpbi.blogspot.com/2008/03/motion-chart-provided-by-google.html