Hello Tammy and all BOA fans 
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I am writing first of all to thank you for all the advice and suggestions on BO Analysis. I really appreciate your help.
Our company has been using BEx Designer&Analyzer for flexible reporting for several years and developed strong competencies in such self BI. Business has designed a lot of workbooks in Analyzer 3x, however, Analyzer 3 is out of maintenance today, thus, I am looking for other tool to replace it. A typical use case is an excel file with several inserted queries, excel formulas (esp. VLOOKUPs), pivot tables and advanced formatting.
Comparing Analyzer 7 with BOA, BOA seems to be of more familiar user experience having Excel-based look & feel and PivotTable-like navigation. Business feedbacks are positive, appreciating esp. intuitiveness and easiness of workbook design.
Still there are some features business people are missing (in both BEx and BOA). Questions go mainly round playing with data offline. Is there any such possibility now or planned for future versions?
Other interest is in Delta charts. Referring to waterfall charts coming in BOA 1.4 (great functionality!), are there any plans to develop delta charting? It's highly required by managers, but special queries and excel workarounds are to be designed today.
Thanks and regards
Jana Cermakova
Business system consultant - Information Management
Europe IS, SABMiller