Evolve Your Approach to Buying BI

GoodData offers a new way to deliver dashboards and analytics for your company and to your customers. It's a simpler way—and a less expensive one.

Instead of forcing you to cobble together technologies from scratch, you can get started in minutes with GoodData's complete on-demand platform. You can deliver your first project in weeks and extend it easily—with more data, more sources, more analytics, more dashboards, more users.

5 tips to help you scope out the right approach

  1. Change is constant.

    If you cannot iterate on your dashboards and analytics in a month or less, are you really keeping up with your business? Agility is key.

  2. Drill, baby, drill.

    You can never fully predict how business users will want to analyze their data, so give them complete freedom to drill down in any direction they choose.

  3. Great is the enemy of good.

    We all want to deliver the perfect analytics, but keep in mind that business users are so starved for business data, anything they get is like manna from heaven. Deliver them something good in a week as opposed to something great in six months.

  4. Beware the data monster.

    Analytics means tackling your data at some level. Beware of the extremes: approaches that "bring all your data together in a single place for a single view of everything," as well as solutions that ignore the data problem (rule of thumb: no data warehouse means no historical trending, no cross-data analysis).

  5. Get yourself out of the plumbing business.

    Do you really want to be installing, managing, configuring and optimizing servers, software, databases and tools, and administering users? Rid yourself of these headaches.

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GoodData

Open Source

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Data Visualization

SaaS
Agile First dashboards in days Weeks to download and configure Every new report takes 3 months Fast as long as you have the data in Excel (XLS) Fast to start, painful to change
On-demand We run your BI Roll your own BI Roll your own BI Roll your own BI On-demand
Approachable Designed for both biz and tech Great for coding and tweaking Great for BI dept., bad for everyone else Great for biz users. Tough to get data in. Looks like last year's BI
Before GoodDataBuild & Operate BI Infrastructure Activity GoodDataFocus on Business Value
Today: 75% of effort on low-value plumbing Arrow Tomorrow: 75% of effort delivering business value
Provision BI+DW infrastructure Provision Add users, projects (BI walled gardens)
Generate physical model/IT practices (tables, star schemas, metadata) Model Create logical model/business view (facts, metrics, attributes)
Stage, de-normalize, load, re-index Load Identify data sources, use ETL tools, call platform APIs
Platform operations (backups, monitoring, ETLs) Operate Operate BI (dashboards, reports, KPIs)
Focus on performance and scalability (caches, indexes, instances, load-balancing) Optimize Focus on results (get the right information to the right people)