GoodData Rated Cloud BI Platform Leader In Latest Nucleus Research Value Matrix for Business Intelligence and Analytics

End-to-end multi-tenant platform cited for usability, data governance, licensing, cloud model, and thought leadership

SAN FRANCISCO – January 23, 2014 – GoodData, the leader in cloud business intelligence, today announced its ranking in the Leader Quadrant of Nucleus Research's Technology Value Matrix for Business Intelligence and Analytics. Nucleus Research places vendors in the BI Leader category who provide key functionalities, including "data discovery and visualization products, cloud-based and as-a-service business intelligence tools" that improve business value with high levels of usability.

"GoodData has established itself as a leading cloud BI provider over more traditional vendors based on its software's usability, data governance, licensing, cloud model and thought leadership," said Nina Sandy, principal analyst, Nucleus Research. "The GoodData platform provides organizations with the ability to collect, store, refine, visualize, analyze, report and integrate data, propelling it to the leadership quad in our Value Matrix."

The Technology Value Matrix bases usability scores on the intuitiveness of the application, availability of role-based interfaces, training requirements, and productivity impact on users. Functionality scores are based on the breadth and repeatability in the core application, the availability and ease of integration of add-on functionality that delivers additional benefit, and vendors' investment in innovative function outside the application that delivers additional benefit.

"GoodData is committed to constantly improving our big data platform that helps businesses leverage not just some but all of their data," said GoodData founder and CEO Roman Stanek. "We are honored to be recognized in our category as leaders based on the incredible functionality we provide in customer experience, data analytics and storage, and industry vision."

GoodData provides an extensible, end-to-end BI solution for midsize to large enterprises that allows companies to govern and discover all of their unstructured and structured data.