All with no software to install, no licenses to buy, and no IT support required. This may sound like a mouthful, so let’s take a moment and see how GoodData works. It’s actually pretty easyGoodData securely hosts your data, enables you to build and manage a multi-dimensional data model from a variety of data sources, provides the tools to analyze data in a collaborative environment, and the means to share the results with others.
An online space for your data. GoodData makes it easy to bring business data into a single online space for reporting and analysis. One of the biggest challenges of business intelligence is actually having your data all in one place. GoodData makes it easy. So what data is GoodData? Really, any data that has business value for you. Start with the obvious stuff like your marketing leads, sales pipeline, accounts and customer support tickets. Then add data that may enrich these, like website logs, competitor benchmarking and market share data. Finally add some public data sets to compare yourself to the greater world such as the US Census, company financial performance and labor rates. How can I get data in? GoodData offers many ways to get data in. The bottom line is that if you can get to your data, or identify where it lives, GoodData can handle it. GoodData offers a CSV upload wizard for simple data files up to 10 MB, which is about 100,000 rows in an Excel file. This is a great way to start. We also offer REST-based APIs and pre-built scripts that allow you to load data directly and securely from any location. Scheduled data loads make it easy to automate the process, ensuring you always have the freshest data in GoodData. A flexible way to model your business. Making sense of your data without a good model is useless, as you have probably discovered by trying on your own through Microsoft Excel or simple reporting tools. The true power of GoodData is in turning your data into a multidimensional model ready for analysis. In essence, GoodData models your business through your data. That means that as your data grows, you gain a greater and greater understanding of your business. Powerful stuff. Creating a multidimensional data model sounds complex, right? Actually, turning your data into a multidimensional model is pretty simple. GoodData can inherit your model from common ETL tools, or you can use GoodData’s powerful modeling tools to do it yourself. You can join multiple files together by linking common attributes like customer ID, time or geography. You’ll be surprised at GoodData’s ease and power. It’s straightforward to define and adjust attributes, metrics and facts, and custom metrics can be created for practically anything you want to analyze. Do I have to start from scratch? You can if you want to, but there are easier ways to get started. GoodData intuits a data model from the underlying data you provide, letting you get started in minutes. We provide pre-built analytics solutions to analyze your NetSuite and Amazon CloudFront data. And our partners are building repeatable solutions in such varying areas as customer survey analysis to operational reporting. Am I going to get stuck in another fixed model? Absolutely not. With GoodData, you are never locked into our interpretation of your business. We provide you with good starting points – how to analyze your sales pipeline or how to report on your website performance. But we also give you the flexibility to easily extend or change the model – after all your business is unique. And you can do this without a team of BI consultants. Deep Ad Hoc Analysis Collaborative BI
All the tools to report, analyze and collaborate with your co-workers. GoodData is designed to make it easy to interact with your data. Access reports and analysis the same way you find everything else. Build and view reports that help you track key company metrics. Analyze your data and get answers to your burning business questions in a snap. Share GoodData as easily as you share videos and photos. Collaborate with others to gain a deeper understanding of your business.GoodData raises business intelligence to the next level by combining three critical features into a simple integrated on-demand service. It’s BI without the BS.
Visualize data with fully customizable canned or dynamic reports and dashboards using pivot tables or charts. Pivot on the fly with a flick of the mouse. Define custom and rule-based formatting templates, drill-down into or across cells, right-click to define column aggregates in seconds, get instant spreadsheet region statistics via mouse highlight, drag and drop chart axis configurations, control individual label rotations.
Slice and dice data using an intuitive “what and how” interface and define custom and global/local metrics, filters, composite dimensions, variables, data models, and much more. Use the filter helper to automatically plug in selection, ranking, range or variable filters. Perform what-if analysis via guided navigation or get down and dirty with a powerful yet readable multi-dimensional language. Perform trending analysis on time-based snapshots.
Collaborate and share projects, reports and results with colleagues and management in real time. Track and audit project history. Annotate and tag reports on the fly. Invite people into your projects to discuss and share progress. Encourage participation in real-time. Embed or email reports and dashboards using distribution lists.
