GoodData:
Business Intelligence Platform-as-a-Service
GoodData provides a complete business intelligence platform-as-a-service (BI PaaS) that brings the benefits of cloud computing to the world of business intelligence and data warehousing. Built as a complete integrated platform and offered as a service, GoodData delivers on the fundamental promise of the cloud – on-demand, self-service to deploy and use, and easily adaptable to business requirements.
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Powerful Analytics Engine
Business Intelligence is traditionally one of the data center’s biggest resource hogs. Multi-dimensional analysis is very processor-intensive, and data sizes mushroom into the terabytes and beyond. For years, everyone has been forced to make tradeoffs between speed, power and cost when building analytics software. Because of this, most BI is prescriptive—pre-built dashboards answering pre-defined questions in pre-calculated OLAP analysis cubes.
GoodData takes a different approach, assuming we would not be constrained by the container or the cluster. We made ad hoc analysis as fast and simple as prescriptive BI. That means new queries on new data sets are as easy as repeated queries on predicted data. Smart in-memory query processing and extensive results caching get over the performance hurdles.
Architected for the Cloud
GoodData was designed from the very beginning to take advantage of the processing power afforded by cloud computing, and is built with the flexibility of service-oriented architecture. Before we wrote one line of code, we knew we would be able to access CPU and storage as utilities which could scale elastically to meet our customer’s usage.
We also assumed we would be unable to predict exactly how collaborative analytics would be used. So we designed an open, flexible architecture based on extensive stateless REST interfaces that can be reused and recombined easily. GoodData’s service runs on Amazon Web Services, taking advantage of cloud computing’s low cost and elastic computing model. Projects scale automatically, without any need to plan for peak loads or reconfigure servers to deal with increased usage. We pass this savings onto customers, who only pay for the services they use.
Breakthrough User Experience
Teenagers using Facebook act much differently than marketers accessing a corporate dashboard. Facebook allows discovery, whereas a traditional BI tool requires courage and know-how to drill down for insight. This rigidity and complexity is why dashboards and analytics are used only by a select few and hundreds of reports are unused, analysis is incomplete, and users are often frustrated.
GoodData is changing this model, bringing the interactivity and viral nature of social software into the world of analytics. GoodData makes it easy for any user to access data, to try and discover features, learn from the collective intelligence of their project, and mash up their results outside of the application.
Open Platform
GoodData is an open platform-as-a-service. GoodDta is built upon a series of open Web-based APIs and standards that make it simple to manage projects and users, get data in and get results out. All of GoodData’s APIs are open and published, which means that you are never limited to our tooling, our user management or our UI.
Fast, easy, and low-cost are words you will hear from almost every vendor of business intelligence however they are labeled: on-demand, cloud, SaaS, desktop, enterprise, Excel, open source. What makes GoodData unique is the fact that we were actually built from the ground up for cloud BI. In a world of BI leftovers: re-purposed technologies and re-tread companies looking to address the on-demand analytics opportunity, this matters a great deal.
