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First published on dev.to on 5 September 2022, for an earlier version of eMondrian. Addresses, downloads and steps in it may no longer work. For the current setup see Quickstart.
Update 2026: eMondrian has a new home — emondrian.com, docs at docs.emondrian.com, code at github.com/eMondrian/emondrian-community. What’s new: The new eMondrian.
Check our newest video on how eMondrian can support you to decentralize your planning and forecasting activities for your organization.
Our example from today is a beverages company which operates in many different regions and has plenty of stores. We are going to quickly show you how you could outsource the initial planning for the sales per product to the store managers.
eMondrian is a free and open source alternative to Analysis Services from Microsoft which you can install on Linux and Windows. It allows you to build cubes and consolidate the tables of you underlying data sources to a data model and connect to it from various client tools to visualize & analyse your data in a more user friendly way.