GoodData Adds New Features to Access, Analyze and Share Data From Anywhere

Insights as a Service Vendor Makes it Easier than Ever to Add, Manage and Explore Data Sources

SAN FRANCISCO—April 22, 2015— GoodData®, a leading provider of Insights as a Service, today released three new additions to its cloud analytics platform to break down the barriers of traditional business intelligence and improve self-service analytics for every individual without compromising IT’s need for data governance and integrity.

• Data Explorer is a business-user facing data exploration interface that allows business analysts to turn around insights from new sources of data in a matter of minutes rather than in weeks or months.
• Analytical Designer is the new self-service data discovery canvas that guides analysts to better insights with GoodData’s Collective Learning and recommendations.
• Email and Group Sharing makes it easy to deliver engaging insights to the right stakeholders across the organization.

“My goal when founding GoodData was to give everyone access to Insights, creating a truly data-driven enterprise at which decisions occur quickly across every level of the business,” said CEO Roman Stanek. “These new features accelerate time to insights by helping users work smarter through guided recommendations.”

Customer and Analyst Quotes:

"We are excited about the direction GoodData is taking with the Analytical Designer," said Tom Smith, VP information technology, Hearst. "The theme Access, Analyze and Share delivers a host of new capabilities and the simplification of dates will make a big difference in our line of business."

"The new capabilities GoodData is bringing to the table make producing insights far more straight forward for our organization," said Chris Marin, senior principal, digital marketing platform and analytics, CSC. "The simple drag-and-drop Analytical Designer will support our data analysis on a daily basis."

"GoodData's collaborative analytics, further developed in the most recent update, represents the next evolution of business intelligence," said Manoj Yadav, director of business analytics at Redbubble.com. "This ability to proliferate the reach of analytics and insights throughout the business will make each member of our organization more powerful and productive."

“The issue for most businesses today isn’t a lack of data, but rather getting useful insights from the data,” said James Haight, analyst, Blue Hill Research. “This can create a situation where IT is the bottleneck to enabling data-driven decisions. GoodData’s Analytical Designer is fundamentally aimed at solving this issue and presents an opportunity to more broadly disseminate insights across an organization.”