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Like most disciplines, BI has its own set of jargons. But while terms like BMP, ETL, OLAP, OLTP, SSAS, BP and QBR are important to those involved with BI technical development, they likely mean little to the executives who depend on BI for the ... [More] analysis of the health of their business. For executives and others who manage by the metrics, one acronym is paramount: KPIs. Simply put, KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) are predefined measurements that are used to monitor a company’s performance and progress. These quantifiable and practical measurements track the progress of a business toward its goals and play a critical role in helping companies make smart decisions to meet their targeted objectives. Like most analytics tools KPIs should be customized and tailored specifically to each company — while a university may want to measure the percentage of students who are placed in jobs after graduation, a retail store may be more concerned with the percentage of transactions completed within a given timeframe. The speed at which KPIs are analyzed varies from business to business, as well. Depending on the type of business, data is collected at different rates and times. This variance mostly has to do how volatile an industry the business is in and how responsive it typically needs to be to stay competitive. For most companies, choosing which KPIs to track is the hardest part of the process. If you aren’t sure what to measure, GoodData can help.  As an example, we’ve identified five KPIs every marketer should track. But, regardless of which KPIs different businesses choose to implement, all KPIs should be measurable and relevant. GoodData provides simple, quantifiable indicators to help any business measure its performance through strategic data collection and specific statistical analysis. GoodData’s custom analytics tools are designed to identify and implement the specific KPIs for your business to meet its goals and objectives by providing accurate feedback that will help you make smart decisions for the future of your company. If you’re not tracking KPIs, why not start now?     [Less]

Like most disciplines, BI has its own set of jargons. But while terms like BMP, ETL, OLAP, OLTP, SSAS, BP and QBR are important to those involved with BI technical development, they likely mean little to the executives who depend on BI for the ... [More] analysis of the health of their business. For executives and others who manage by the metrics, one acronym is paramount: KPIs. Simply put, KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) are predefined measurements that are used to monitor a company’s performance and progress. These quantifiable and practical measurements track the progress of a business toward its goals and play a critical role in helping companies make smart decisions to meet their targeted objectives. Like most analytics tools KPIs should be customized and tailored specifically to each company — while a university may want to measure the percentage of students who are placed in jobs after graduation, a retail store may be more concerned with the percentage of transactions completed within a given timeframe. The speed at which KPIs are analyzed varies from business to business, as well. Depending on the type of business, data is collected at different rates and times. This variance mostly has to do how volatile an industry the business is in and how responsive it typically needs to be to stay competitive. For most companies, choosing which KPIs to track is the hardest part of the process. If you aren’t sure what to measure, GoodData can help.  As an example, we’ve identified five KPIs every marketer should track. But, regardless of which KPIs different businesses choose to implement, all KPIs should be measurable and relevant. GoodData provides simple, quantifiable indicators to help any business measure its performance through strategic data collection and specific statistical analysis. GoodData’s custom analytics tools are designed to identify and implement the specific KPIs for your business to meet its goals and objectives by providing accurate feedback that will help you make smart decisions for the future of your company. If you’re not tracking KPIs, why not start now?     [Less]

PRLog (Press Release) - Dec 20, 2011 - Janova, an award-winning provider of web-based, automated software testing solutions leveraging the power of the cloud, today announced it has partnered with on-demand business intelligence provider GoodData ... [More] to give users access to a suite of analytics tools which will further enhance the Janova offering.Janova users can now access GoodData’s Janova Analytics application to consolidate all applications with real-time results data to ensure projects are progressing on time and on target. Through interactive web-based dashboards, Janova customers can now gain insights into their software testing data by getting a full overview of all projects, comparing results, and drilling down to specific data as desired. The service is live and available now at http://www.janova.us/gooddata-integration.  “We strive to give business users an out of the box BI experience without the complication and headaches of traditional business intelligence," said Cody Crnkovich, Senior Director, Powered by Partnerships, GoodData. "Janova Analtyics is yet another example of GoodData helping companies put reporting and analytics in the forefront of businesses." “Janova is providing value-added data to our customer base by launching this partnership with GoodData,” said Jeff Lusenhop, founder and chief executive officer, Janova. “Janova Analytics is easy to use, yet powerful and customizable to meet the needs of our users. This added functionality gives our users yet another advantage, further setting the revolutionary cloud-based Janova solution apart from the competition.” About GoodData GoodData offers the world's most powerful Cloud BI Platform, providing our customers and partners with operational dashboards, advanced reporting and data warehousing at a fraction of the cost and complexity of other approaches. GoodData is trusted by companies like Enterasys Networks, Capgemini, and Software AG, and embedded into offerings from cloud innovators like Zendesk, Get Satisfaction and Pardot. GoodData is headquartered in San Francisco and located in the cloud at http://www.gooddata.com. About Janova Janova, based in New Albany, Ohio, is a provider of web-based, automated software testing solutions designed to streamline the often cumbersome task of software development and implementation. Janova’s solutions are based on years of experience consulting with companies who struggled to find an efficient way to test software. Leveraging the power of the cloud, Janova solutions are English-based and easy to implement, with no equipment investment and nothing to download. Janova requires no long-term commitment and offers free support with packages available to fit any size organization, from a single user up to the enterprise. View a demo or sign up for a free 15-day trial at http://www.janova.us. [Less]

The process of collecting and analyzing data existed long before BI systems were in place. In the early days, information was acquired and knowledge gained from manageable data sets without complex tools and integrations. These early BI systems ... [More] were large, expensive and time-consuming. Only true enterprise companies could afford them, and they took an enormous amount of time to implement and maintain. In the past decade, a monumental shift has starting taking place. The world of big data has arrived, ushering in a new metrics-centric business climate. With the remarkable proliferation of available data, it’s impossible to use archaic tools to find the signal in the noise. BI is no longer just about delivering facts, it’s about extracting insights, trends and patterns in data that help businesses understand the past and present, and make smart decisions for the future. Fortunately, BI systems have moved from complex infrastructure investments toward simpler, more agile platforms. They’ve become more flexible, easier to scale and, most importantly, much faster to deploy. Companies of all sizes now have access to operational dashboards that update nearly in real-time. GoodData, and similar cloud-based BI tools, are significantly less expensive, ready on-demand and increasingly more accessible. As a result, larger and more obscure data sets can be collected, harnessing a jaw-dropping array of raw digital inputs from nearly every internal and external aspect of business. Just having access to more data doesn’t make it more useful. It takes advanced analytics and operational dashboards, all built on a solid platform with data warehousing and integration. With all these key pieces in place, businesspeople have at their fingertips aggregated, relevant, actionable data they can use to make important business decisions. The value of real-time data has become clear. Cloud-based service models, like GoodData, bring BI out of the boardroom and into the hands of employees who drive daily business decisions at companies of all sizes. IT departments have gone from spending 75% of their efforts on low-value plumbing to channeling 75% of their time delivering business value. The future of serviced-based BI is bright, and GoodData is already leading the revolution, with its agile, on-demand, approachable — and proven — platform. From the C-suite to analysts cubicles, people are transforming their businesses through metrics-driven decision-making. It’s an exciting innovation and we’ve only just begun. And how about you?  What BI platform is your company using and what do you love about it? [Less]

ATLANTA, GA, Dec 15, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Pardot has launched new reporting and analysis tools designed to help small business marketers improve campaigns and lead throughput. The cloud marketing automation vendor partnered with GoodData ... [More] to deliver the functionality, which includes customizable dashboards and easy to build charts and graphs. The reporting tools, which are free to Pardot clients, offer visual evidence of campaign effectiveness across channels -- a non-negotiable requirement for data-driven executives. "Marketers are living in a new reality," said Adam Blitzer, co-founder and COO at Pardot. "Fuzzy concepts like branding are less important; data-based decisions matter most. Our new reporting and analysis tools allow marketers to make informed decisions in real time, while tracking performance for all their campaigns from a single, easy to use platform." Marketers using the new reporting tools can quickly and easily create reports to track lead volume, lead throughput, and revenue generated from a given campaign, as well as prospect trends such as content popularity over flexible time periods. The platform also allows marketers to send reports to internal and external audiences at scheduled intervals. For example, a marketing manager might set up a report that is automatically emailed to the executive team each Friday afternoon, showcasing key performance indicators from the week in an attractive graphical layout. "Greater marketing accountability is a must today, as marketing takes on responsibility for more and more of the buying cycle," said Jesse Kliza, Pardot user and Director of Marketing at Apprenda. "Pardot's integration with GoodData provides actionable insights into performance that ever marketer should have. For us, it has been really powerful to have visibility into not only the source of each opportunity, but also the top marketing activities influencing those buyers." "Measuring campaign performance gives companies the insight they need to stay one step ahead of their competition," said Cody Crnkovich, Senior Director of Powered by Partnerships at GoodData. "Developing key performance indicators early on means everyone in the organization can stay focused on a common goal and adjust strategy as needed throughout a campaign, rather than investing valuable resources without knowing what's working." Following the release of Pardot Marketing Analytics Standard, clients who want to develop even more sophisticated reports will have the option to upgrade to a Premium level package. The Premium package will give users visibility into more complex data sets, including in-depth analysis of their individual sales and marketing pipeline. About Pardot Pardot is a B2B cloud marketing automation software provider that increases revenue and maximizes efficiency for companies with multi-touch sales cycles. Pardot's platform features CRM integration, email marketing, lead nurturing, lead scoring and ROI reporting to help marketing and sales teams work together to generate and qualify sales leads, shorten sales cycles, and demonstrate marketing accountability. Pardot offers affordable pricing for the SMB market. [Less]

At GoodData we love apps - prebuilt connectors and dashboard templates that solve nagging business problems.  We've built apps for all sorts of things including: Sales Analytics Marketing Analytics Support Analytics Subscription Analytics ... [More] Twilio Analytics Google Analytics... We know we're not the only ones with great ideas for killer analytics apps, so we're very excited to announce the Certified GoodData App program!   Leverage your metric and KPI expertise to build and sell your own apps on GoodData - the fastest growing BI platform.  We'll help along the way with things like technical enablement and co-marketing to make your idea a reality.   The first Certified GoodData App was built by our partner Keboola and provides extensive social analytics for Facebook.  Here's what they have to say about it: The market for user engagement data is growing fast and marketeers need much more than just a chart showing the number of users or a list of influencers. What is the associated cost of acquiring a new fan? What is the dependency between the number of viral stories and goal conversion on a product web site? How does marketing spending in a particular locality influence the behavior of the fans on Facebook? We developed the Keboola Analytics Facebook App because we believe that data needs to be interpreted within a real business context. Thanks to the robustness of the GoodData platform, we took Facebook Analytics to a completely new level than what is currently available from Facebook's own Insights or elsewhere. Today we are launching the Facebook Pages analytics. The Pages' administrators can, literally in a few clicks, connect their data with the GoodData BI platform. That allows them to analyze any time period (from daily details to monthly cumulative values), generate performance reports according to their own KPIs, monitor trends in various locations, freely modify their reports and dashboards, or even distribute specific reports exactly where they should be consumed - intranet applications, web portals, e-mail boxes etc. As a GoodData Partner we benefited tremendously from the support of the fastest growing cloud BI company in the world and access to their cutting edge technologies. Thanks to that support we can fully focus on the value we aim to deliver to our customers, instead of spending our time on unbelievably complex technological obstacles. Our team analyzes the interaction between customers' data from CRM, SAP, client workflow or user behaviour data from social networks, instead of battling data warehouses, graph theory or advanced statistical techniques. Our partnership with GoodData propelled us years ahead so that today we can achieve our product development ambitions in the BI market. -Petr Simecek, Keboola s.r.o. And here are some highlights of their app's great functionality like active infographics that present key values in their most accessible form: High data granularity to identify proper trends: Like and 'unlike' trending: Details of user behaviors analyzed in context: Ready to get started building your own Certified GoodData App?  Read this how-to and let us know about your idea so we can help!   [Less]

San Francisco, California -  December 01, 2011 - GoodData (www.gooddata.com),  the world’s most powerful cloud BI platform, today announced its Powered by GoodData partnership with CompareNetworks (www.comparenetworks.com), a global B2B media company ... [More] for the life science and healthcare industries. GoodData’s on-demand platform allows CompareNetworks to deliver advanced analytics to their advertising partners. CompareNetworks operates multiple online marketplaces that assist businesses in connecting with potential buyers. GoodData’s unique platform allows CompareNetworks to offer competitive usage data to its advertisers, differentiating its service from its competitors. By combining data across numerous data sources including Omniture and Brightcove, CompareNetworks provides sophisticated views into website user behavior activities, which allow CompareNetworks advertisers to optimize ad campaigns and gain intelligence for product development. Partnering with GoodData allows CompareNetworks to offer an even greater value of service to its 700+ customers. Delivering analytics with data-driven insight provides CompareNetworks’ advertising partners with multi-dimensional views of how their channels are performing and what activities are driving the most value. GoodData’s robust analytics, reports and dashboards give CompareNetworks' partners a lasting competitive advantage. “GoodData disregards the status quo of business intelligence, creating and presenting beautiful and useful reporting tools that get out of the user's way and let the data speak,” said Jason Roy, Product Development Director for CompareNetworks. “At CompareNetworks, we've found GoodData's solution, sales process and integration team to be second to none as they work closely with us to hit aggressive release dates with ease.” Before GoodData, obtaining this critical data was a manual process for the CompareNetworks team. SAs a result of the Powered by GoodData partnership, CompareNetworks’ customers have a simple way to track website users’ response to marketing activities. In addition, CompareNetworks’ advertisers can now seamlessly: View embedded dashboards and reports that are automatically updated daily with the latest CompareNetworks’ data Perform ad-hoc analysis and drill into key reports and metrics Track performance against a benchmark of CompareNetworks’ data Connecting business users to their business data is a core competency of GoodData,” said Roman Stanek, GoodData’s Founder and CEO. “GoodData partnerships provide a no-nonsense business intelligence platform, allowing SaaS ISVs to provide analytics directly to their customers.” GoodData’s Powered by partners, including companies like Zendesk, Pardot, Get Satisfaction and Coupa, have supplied powerful dashboards and ad-hoc analysis capabilities to over 3,000 customers. “GoodData’s expertise around BI allows our partners to focus on what they do best,” stated Cody Crnkovich, Senior Director of Powered by Partnerships at GoodData. “Our unique business models and partnering programs make analytics accessible for vendors of all shapes and sizes – it is a game changer in BI.” To learn more about GoodData and its Powered by programs, please visit: www.gooddata.com About GoodData  GoodData offers the world's most powerful Cloud BI Platform, providing our customers and partners with operational dashboards advanced reporting and data warehousing at a fraction of the cost and complexity of other approaches. GoodData is trusted by companies like Enterasys Networks, Capgemini and Software AG, and embedded into offerings from cloud innovators like Zendesk, Get Satisfaction and Pardot. GoodData is headquartered in San Francisco and located in the cloud at www.gooddata.com. About CompareNetworks, Inc.  Headquartered in South San Francisco, California, CompareNetworks is a leading media company for the life science and healthcare industries. The CompareNetworks websites help b-to-b professionals make informed purchasing decisions by offering a long-needed source for product information and industry news. With an extensive directory of more than 2 Million products with complete specifications, and thousands of product videos, CompareNetworks provides the most up-to-date and b-to-b marketplaces on the Web. CompareNetworks websites include Biocompare, Dentalcompare, American Laboratory, Labcompare and OphthalmologyWeb. #### [Less]

TechCrunch recently announced their 5th annual Crunchie Award nomination categories.  There are over a dozen categories including Best Social Application, Best Tablet Application, Best Could Service, Best New Device and VC of the Year.  We think ... [More] GoodData is a perfect fit for Best Cloud Service.   And if you are shaking your head in agreement, how about you give GoodData a nomination. Here is this short list of a few of the 2010 winners: Groupon (Best Shopping App), Flipboard (Best Tablet Application), Google Mobile Maps for Android (Best Mobile Application), Andrew Mason (CEO of the Year ), Quora (Best New Startup of 2010) and Twitter (Best Overall Startup of 2010). You can submit one nomination per category per day through Tuesday, December 13th, 2011 and the big awards ceremony will be help on January 31, 2012 at  Louise M. Daview Symphony Hall in San Francisco CA .  Thank you for your nomination for Best Cloud Service.   [Less]

Enhanced User Experience We are thrilled to announce the new and improved GoodData user interface. The enhancements in Release 63 provide users with an improved navigation experience along with added items that boost usability. Click on the image ... [More] below for a  detailed tour of the navigation, charts, dashboard editing and support experience. On top of the new UI design, GoodData has several recently developed features.  Here is brief breakdown of all new items in Release 63: Contact Support Widgets   Report CSV Export Mini Charts Public Dashboards Become GoodData App Certified GoodData invites all KPI and metrics experts to build their very own data-driven app on GoodData's best-in-class platform. Using GoodData's open APIs and your analytics knowledge, you can help connect business folks to their critical business data. Take a look at how Keboola taking social analytics to the next level with their GoodData Certified App. Sound interesting? Stay tuned for more information on the GoodData App Certified program or contact us now for certification details.  Meet A Powered By Partner: Pardot It has been a year in the making, but after gathering feedback from hundreds of beta testers and fine-tuning the user experience, Pardot Marketing Analytics enables marketers to track their KPIs and analyze their marketing efforts with pre-built reports and dashboards. Pardot Marketing Analytics is built directly into Pardot's UI and is free of charge to all Pardot customers. Hear from Pardot's CEO and VP of Product as they share why Pardot customer are so excited about Pardot Marketing Analytics. Techie Talk The GoodData Developer Network is all things techie and the perfect place to gain advanced understanding of the GoodData platform. Interact with others, view usage examples and read tips, tricks and best practice articles on our blog. Below are a few postings from November. How to build time based caparison reports with GoodData Add users to a GoodData project via our REST API GoodData CL Tool v1.2.43 released Upcoming Webinars GoodData Office Hours Friday, December 2nd at 9:00am (PST) Do you have a GoodData question?  Or perhaps you just want to learn more about what you can measure.  Join us to learn a bit more about GoodData. Register today Taking the BS Out Of BI Wednesday, December 14th at 9:00am (PST) Join GoodData’s Director of Customer Support, Ray Light, and Product Marketing Manager, Michelle Urban for an introductory session intended to give new users a quick tour of GoodData.  We will get you up and running and metrics focused before you know it. Register today Getting Started with GoodData: Reports, Dashboards, Collaboration & More Thursday, December 15th at 10:00am (PST) Join GoodData’s Director of Customer Support, Ray Light, and Product Marketing Manager, Michelle Urban for an introductory session intended to give new users a quick tour of GoodData.  We will get you up and running and metrics focused before you know it. Register today Pardot Marketing Analytics: New Marketing Insight Thursday, December 15th at 10am (PST) Join Pardot's VP of Product, Zach Bailey and Product Marketing Manager, Michelle Urban for an introductory session of Pardot Marketing Analytics. Register today [Less]