ReportGrid offers an API to report or visualize anything running as SaaS. There are some examples of what ReportGrid’s Visualization Engine can do. Prices start at $50 per month. Check out the
TheNextWeb article.
Oct 29
Oct 27
Before you start looking for new tools to help in your analytics, check out what you can already do with Microsoft Office. All Analytics helps with some tips.
Oct 18
Tidemark is a new company in the business intelligence – analytics space just coming out of stealth and announcing a big chunk of funding.
Check out the articles from ZDNet, Techcrunch, and Venture Beat. Marketwatch has an article abotu Tidemark’s partnership with Cloudera.
Oct 06
Palantir Technologies has raised $70 million in new funds. Palantir was founded by former Paypal employees and Stanford computer scientists. Their technology is designed to make working with large volumes of easy. Right now they are focused on the government and finance markets. Check out the Techcrunch post.
Oct 01
A few former Google employees have launched a new startup called Zillabyte to help users analyze lots of data. Their idea was to give other people access to the type of tools they had as Google employees. You’ll have to sign up on their site to get an invite if you want to see what they’re up to. One of the co-founders, Peter Harrington, is the author of Machine Learning in Action.
Here’s an article from Techcrunch.
Jun 23
There’s a new company specializing in providing analytics specific for games – gameanalytics.com. It’s a set of tools that game developers can use to keep track of exactly how people are playing their games and that can then be used to improved the gameplay or marketing of the game. Where do players experience problems? What do they do? How long does it take them? Check out the techcrunch article
Apr 20
The B-Eye Network has a great post on the strategy to move your organization from reactive analytics to predictive analytics. Typically organizations start at one end of the spectrum with basic reporting and then some move to more predictive/real-time capabilities over time.
Mar 16
As the time comes to fill in your brackets and pick your teams for the NCAA basketball tournament, Wired Magazine takes an analytical look into how things might shake out. They’ve even got a spreadsheet.
Mar 16
Check out Next Big Sound and their web-based analytics music dashboards. It’s similar to Compete or Hitwise for comparing metrics for websites, but in this case it shows fans, plays, views, and comments of one artist vs. others. The results are based on social data.
