GoodData offers a complete cloud-based business intelligence platform which includes secure online hosting of physical data, multi-dimensional data modeling capabilities, and a rich user environment for ad hoc analytics, reporting, and collaboration. Data analysts leverage the power of a highly flexible modeling platform, while business users have an intuitive reporting and analysis tool.

This unique combination makes GoodData a perfect platform for agile BI project implementation, enabling teams to rapidly create and iterate on their analysis. Now teams can have 10 iterations of their BI project instead of a year-long science experiment.

Data Loading & Management

For simple use cases, GoodData intuits a model from the underlying data, letting you get started in minutes. You can then join multiple files together by linking attributes directly within the project. The model grows with the data. GoodData also provides advanced modeling tools for sophisticated users and larger projects. Regardless of your project size and sophistication, you’ll be surprised at GoodData’s ease and power.

Data Modeling

The logical data model (LDM) is the main interface between your data and the analytical power of GoodData. GoodData offers multiple ways to create and manage a data model. GoodData can inherit your model from common ETL tools, or you can use GoodData’s powerful modeling and cleansing tools to do it yourself. You can join multiple files together by linking attributes. It’s straightforward to define and adjust attributes, metrics and facts, and custom metrics can be created for practically anything you want to analyze.

Metrics

GoodData provides a rich and highly flexible environment that enables you to analyze practically any aspect of your data. GoodData makes it easy to create a simple report from your data, and slice and dice it down to the individual data level. No pre-calculated aggregations on a partial data set. Reports are easy to create with easy-to-use guided analytics, and powerful filtering let you analyze the data the way you want. All analytics within GoodData center around metrics, which are aggregations of facts within the data model.

GoodData provides many ways to create and manage metrics. First, simple metrics such as SUM, MIN, MAX and AVG can be created across all facts automatically. Share metrics can show a percentage against a fixed whole, Difference metrics can compare growth rates over years, and Ratios compare two previously defined metrics. Time metrics provide analysis over historical periods. A custom metric editor enables you to perform a wide variety of calculations across logical and mathematical functions.

Reporting & Data Visualization

GoodData makes it easy to package and visualize any analysis you want to share with others. GoodData supports most common charting types, and interaction is always just a click away. Reports can be easily saved and shared for commenting and collaboration. They can be embedded in any wiki, intranet, website or web-based application. Of course they can also be exported in PDF and XLS formats as well. And anyone can be invited into the project to collaborate around the underlying data and analysis.