Author Archives: Sam Boonin

GoodData and SnapLogic Deliver Data-to-Dashboard in a Week

Free Snap Connects Practically Any Data for Dashboards and Analytics SnapLogic, the visionary cloud integration company, today announced the addition of the GoodData Snap to their SnapStore. The free GoodData Snap makes it easy to bring data from relational databases, internal applications and other systems into GoodData for fast and comprehensive dashboarding, visualization, reporting and ...

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GoodData Closes $6.5 Million Series A Financing

Fidelity Growth Partners Europe Leads New Round GoodData today announced that it has closed Series A funding, adding $6.5 million in new capital, in addition to the $5 million raised in seed funding in 2009. This funding round was led by a new investor Fidelity Growth Partners Europe, and included participation from existing investors

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Free analytics. Oh yes, it’s free

With today's launch of GoodData for Zendesk, we are introducing a new way for SaaS providers (and their customers) to succeed with analytics. It's called Powered by GoodData, and it's free. Free for the SaaS providers who no longer have to avert their eyes when their ...

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Zendesk and GoodData Bring Business Intelligence to Customer Support

Free dashboards and advanced analytics measure support performance San Francisco, CA -- Zendesk, a web-based customer support software provider, announced an integration with GoodData, an on-demand reporting and analytics provider, that delivers powerful dashboards and advanced analytics to Zendesk customers. GoodData for Zendesk enables companies to gain business insight into their customer support activity, improve key ...

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BI PaaS Overview – Webinar Replay

Here is a video and slides we presented today during our webinar introducing GoodData BI Platform as a Service. Feel free to sign up for a GoodData free trial or visit our Developer Network.

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BI PaaS: One Platform, Many Uses

One week into the release of our BI platform-as-a-service, a few of our Early Access Customers are starting to do amazing things. What's stunning is the diversity of usage that we are already seeing. Here are a few highlights. A hot new SaaS ...

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GoodData Delivers the First BI Platform as a Service

Developer Community Launches with Early Access Program GoodData launches the industry's first Business Intelligence Platform as a Service (BI PaaS), opening GoodData's cloud business intelligence platform to any data, any model, any source. Effective immediately, GoodData's cloud BI platform is available as a set of REST-based APIs and connectors, published on GoodData's Developer ...

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A Peek at GoodData’s BI PaaS Architecture

Jaroslav Gergic, GoodData's vp of engineering, presented at last week's Burton Group Catalyst Conference. Below is a copy of his presentation, which covers the architectural considerations when rolling out a BI service that must scale to tens of thousands of users, projects, reports, dashboards. Bottom line = if it's not multi-tenant and purpose-built for ...

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Don’t be a BI Hobbyist

It's already halfway through 2010, cloud computing is making its way predictably through the hype cycle, IT folks are thinking twice about buying UNIX servers, keeping old client/server applications alive, hosting their own email, building internal apps, etc. Yet in the BI corner of the IT department, there is still a group of hobbyists who insist ...

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What Data Are Marketers Desperate to See?

GoodData is holding a webinar next week with Forrester Research and DestinationCRM on the ABCs of Marketing  Analytics. We asked a simple question on the webinar sign-up form, and the answer is clear - marketers ...

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