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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    GoodData.AI

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AGoodData is an analytics platform used by organizations to deliver real-time, governed insights, embedded into products, customized for users, and integrated into any data environment.N/A

    Google Universal Analytics (discontinued)

    Score7.6 out of 10
    N/AGoogle Universal Analytics was an enterprise-level analytics solution that was sunset in July of 2024.

    $150,000

    Up to 1 Billion hits/month

    Pricing
    GoodData.AIGoogle Universal Analytics (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Google Analytics Premium
    $150,000
    Up to 1 Billion hits/month
    Google Analytics
    Free
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    GoodData.AIGoogle Universal Analytics (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    GoodData.AIGoogle Universal Analytics (discontinued)
    Considered Both Products
    GoodData.AI
    Chose GoodData.AI
    For analysts, Tableau is far better because of better graph visualization. Tableau does not need to deal with the amount of uploaded data. Our company uses Gooddata because of its unbeatable price.
    Incentivized
    Chose GoodData.AI
    Logical data modelling and XAE (MAQL) are reasons why I like using GoodData for projects where I need to connect small chunks of data from multiple sources and enable holistic analysis across the whole company quickly for everyone. With PowerBI or Qlik Sense you need 5 times …
    Incentivized
    Discontinued Products
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    90%
    Would buy again
    73 Answers
    97%
    Would buy again
    34 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    70 Answers
    90%
    Delivers good value for the price
    26 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    90%
    Happy with the feature set
    73 Answers
    91%
    Happy with the feature set
    32 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    93%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    55 Answers
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    27 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    84%
    Implementation went as expected
    54 Answers
    89%
    Implementation went as expected
    24 Answers
    Features
    GoodData.AIGoogle Universal Analytics (discontinued)
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of GoodData.AI and Google Universal Analytics (discontinued)
    Feature
    GoodData.AI
    8.1
    74 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Google Universal Analytics (discontinued)
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    Ratings
    Pixel Perfect reports8.055 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards8.974 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates7.362 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of GoodData.AI and Google Universal Analytics (discontinued)
    Feature
    GoodData.AI
    8.1
    74 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Google Universal Analytics (discontinued)
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    Ratings
    Drill-down analysis7.772 Ratings00 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities7.674 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration8.069 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of GoodData.AI and Google Universal Analytics (discontinued)
    Feature
    GoodData.AI
    7.9
    69 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Google Universal Analytics (discontinued)
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    Ratings
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.067 Ratings00 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.656 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics6.540 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining9.620 Ratings00 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of GoodData.AI and Google Universal Analytics (discontinued)
    Feature
    GoodData.AI
    8.0
    75 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Google Universal Analytics (discontinued)
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    Ratings
    Multi-User Support (named login)8.974 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model8.666 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)8.072 Ratings00 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)6.546 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of GoodData.AI and Google Universal Analytics (discontinued)
    Feature
    GoodData.AI
    8.3
    51 Ratings
    14% above category average
    Google Universal Analytics (discontinued)
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    Ratings
    REST API8.443 Ratings00 Ratings
    Javascript API8.339 Ratings00 Ratings
    iFrames8.340 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Analytics
    Comparison of Web Analytics features of GoodData.AI and Google Universal Analytics (discontinued)
    Feature
    GoodData.AI
    -
    Ratings
    Google Universal Analytics (discontinued)
    6.9
    1 Ratings
    16% below category average
    Lead Conversion Tracking00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Device and Browser Reporting00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
    Pageview Tracking00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Event Tracking00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Reporting in real-time00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Referral Source Tracking00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Customizable Dashboards00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
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    GoodData.AIGoogle Universal Analytics (discontinued)
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    Score8.6 out of 10
    Matomo Analytics
    Score9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Reveal
    Score10 out of 10
    Lead Forensics
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Microsoft Power BI Embedded
    Score8 out of 10
    Chartbeat
    Score9.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    GoodData.AIGoogle Universal Analytics (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.2
    (102 ratings)
    8.0
    (55 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.9
    (19 ratings)
    10.0
    (11 ratings)
    Usability
    9.4
    (81 ratings)
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    Availability
    8.7
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.7
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (11 ratings)
    10.0
    (23 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.0
    (4 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    7.7
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    8.0
    (13 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sources
    8.0
    (13 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    7.3
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.2
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.7
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    GoodData.AIGoogle Universal Analytics (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    GoodData.AI
    I think it works nicely for shops that want the analytical power and are ok to host their own infrastructure for the data and etl. For smaller operations with limited budgets but still high demand for analytical features the math may not work out.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    As I have discussed previously their insights were very useful. The second thing is since it is a Google product you will connect the data very easily from other platforms like Bigquery, Google Drive, etc. and even you can connect Google marketing platform. through this tool, you can track your live campaign how they were performing, and how it will be engaging your customer as well.
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    Pros
    GoodData.AI
    • The source datasets are often complex, semi-structured and un-linked to key entities. With GoodData, all of these datasets are unified to serve as a central semantic data model layer, building into a galaxy schema with dimensions, bridge, and facts, which then forms the backbone that powers the [...] data intelligence cloud. Building insights and dashboards become a much easier task once the underlying data model is designed. GoodData enforces certain best practices as a BI tool, which must be adhered to get the true value of the raw data. For e.g. the source FDA dashboard may just show inspection data but the Site Profile dashboard built on GoodData goes beyond the standard information and shows more insight into site risk scores and can be drilled into details. There is blog written on this topic: [...].
    • GoodData provides a rich collection of visualization options that help us create compelling story-telling via dashboards. Being well-prepared for FDA inspections is essential for maintaining product quality, regulatory compliance, and avoiding serious business setbacks. FDA inspections are critical events that can shape a company’s market access and reputation. The FDA itself offers the FDA Data Dashboard, but it doesn’t make every document available. There is a blog written on this topic: [...].
    • Medical devices and technologies do not stop evolving after they receive regulatory approval. Once a product hits the market, it faces real-world usage, compliance challenges, and an array of regulatory scrutiny. Managing these postmarket dynamics is critical to a product’s long-term success and patient safety. However, many companies struggle to keep track of relevant events across a product’s markets, from adverse event reports to changing regulations. Postmarket Intelligence developed on GoodData platform enables us to solve that problem. It empowers MedTech companies to efficiently monitor, assess, and act on postmarket data—saving time, improving decision-making, and ensuring compliance with industry standards. Anyone who is used to trying to get the data they need from the various FDA, and other regulatory agency websites, knows that collecting, cleaning, and structuring that data takes hours. And that’s before any analysis can get done. We enable customers to free up time to focus only on the high-value analysis and subsequent recommendations to leadership, rather than wrangling the data.
    • The data pipeline refresh that is provided by GoodData Platform is also quite useful from data engineering perspective. The Automated Data Distribution v2 or commonly called as ADD refresh follows a set pattern of identifying the analytical data model through output stage which helps abstract the complex table definition to simpler views that can help with quick rebuild at the data warehouse level while loading the data into GoodData's ADS storage layer. The import first way of loading data into GoodData's cloud storage, followed by querying for any aggregations or metrics on the GoodData analyzer, makes this simple and fast.
    • GoodData's latest product i.e. Cloud also offers several good features like Analytics as Code which helps software engineering teams follow a code-first approach to analytics, where building insights, dashboards or even datasets can be done in YAML templates or serviced by REST APIs. This is particularly forward thinking in the modern technology stack and evolving industry requirements. These provide seamless integration options to front-end and backend code, embedded analytics with multiple choices from HTML to React based workloads. At [...], we are currently exploring most of these features while planning for a future migration from Platform to Cloud.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • It is an excellent cloud analytics platform that is easy to install and configure and easy to deploy and use, allowing us to measure web traffic and other tools.
    • It is an entirely online tool; it does not take up hard disk space like other desktop tools.
    • Since this tool is draggable, Google is constantly adding more features.
    • Even beginners who do not have a custom dashboard can get information. If there is a problem somewhere on the site that needs to be investigated, Google Analytics 360 will notify you.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    GoodData.AI
    • Good Data is already have certain customizable options. However, having more flexibility in customizing reports and dashboards & control over the visual aspects would enhance the overall user experience.
    • To make Good Data even more powerful tool, improving the speed and responsiveness of the tool, especially during data-intensive tasks, would be a significantly helpful.
    • For new users, the interface can be made more user friendly which would promote easy navigation through features of tool.
    Incentivized
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    • Generally I think there is a lot you can do within the tool, but as it is a Google product it means there is limited support - something which I think lets all of the platform stacks down
    • There could be more visual signifiers to identify if a feature is a normal or 360 feature. This would mean you can really get to grips with what the extra more advanced elements are
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    Likelihood to Renew
    GoodData.AI
    Because gooddata really helps us in processing data to make reports or dashboards. So we are very satisfied when we use it. What we like is the flexible use of charts. We change at will the use of charts to display in reports or dashboards. Thank you Gooddata for helping companies like us who need flexibility in usage
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    Google Analytics 360 is an upgraded version of the most widely used web/app analytics tracking tools in the market. The price is stable and predictable making it a long-term product of choice. It's easy to use and pairs so well with other Google Marketing Platform products.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    GoodData.AI
    From a customer perspective it is incredibly usable. We have more users building their own reports that would normally need custom work from our support team. The back end can be daunting when trying to configure things like new data elements or push changes to a report to all existing customers.
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    The UI is very easy to navigate and use. The features are well designed and intuitive. As long as the user has a good understanding of basic digital analytics definitions and capabilities, this tool should be quite easy to use. I consider Google Analytics Premium to be the easiest of all of the enterprise solutions out there to use.
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    Reliability and Availability
    GoodData.AI
    We are approximately one month since go-live. There has been one short outage.
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    Discontinued Products
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    Performance
    GoodData.AI
    I'm generally impressed with how fast it reflects so much data.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
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    Support Rating
    GoodData.AI
    Support team has been highly responsive and helpful from our first initial deployment to present day. They engage and work with us. know when to escalate for more challenging problems. They also follow up. Overall have had a very good experience with support
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    Discontinued Products
    If you purchase Premium through a reseller like LunaMetrics, you are going to be taken care of. The additional amount of support and services that a reseller provides to make sure you have the best experience with the product is the reason why the reseller program exists to begin with. Support doesn't have to be just reactive, it can be proactive as well.
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    In-Person Training
    GoodData.AI
    Petr was a rock star - patient, knowledgeable, clear and easy to work with.
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    Online Training
    GoodData.AI
    GoodData implementation team was professional and courteous
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    Discontinued Products
    There is a ton of information online about Google Analytics, but Google Analytics Premium users will have dedicated support and training from Google or an Authorized Reseller.
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    Implementation Rating
    GoodData.AI
    Implementations are hard and we had limited technical resources. We relied too heavily on GD care team. When we found technical gaps, they weren't simple to overcome
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    Discontinued Products
    If you already have the basic version of GA installed, "getting" GA Premium happens immediately through a virtual flipping of the switch - no need to re-implement. You'll want to expand your use of custom dimensions and metrics (you get 10x the amount with Premium). Ideally, you'll be using a tag management solution to talk with GA Premium, in concert with implementing a dataLayer (to note, Google's Tag Manager platform is covered under the same GA Premium SLA, and it's free). There are some welcomed "configurations" with GA Premium, such as integrating with DoubleClick products, activating data driven attribution models, and building roll-up executive reports - but all of these are easy point and click solutions. In comparison with any other enterprise analytics solution, implementing GA and GA Premium is traditionally easier and more flexible. And if you have any trouble or need an extra set of hands for implementation, GA Certified Partners like LunaMetrics can help
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    Alternatives Considered
    GoodData.AI
    GoodData comparing to other platform is very easy to use, customer support and on-boarding support. Set of features, speed of integration in our platform. Also great benefit for us was very competetive pricing.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    Unless you have very complex and edge case analytics needs, Google Analytics [360 (formerly Google Analytics Premium)] is likely going to be the best choice. From both a cost and usability stand point, Google wins. Adobe has the edge case when you need to create really custom reports, dimensions, metrics, etc. In my experience, this is rarely the case and you end up biting off more than you can chew. Stick with Google unless you are or plan on hiring an Adobe Analytics expert.
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    Scalability
    GoodData.AI
    We never had any issues with scalability, other than being limited by workspaces
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    Return on Investment
    GoodData.AI
    • I personally pushed our management to get GoodData implemented, and there on we have been making much more profits than we ever did!
    • Last month we made a decision using the platform and withing a short span of time our ROI gets 7X.
    • We also made a marketing spend of $100,000 every quater using the insights and metrics, and we are really happy with the returs.
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    Discontinued Products
    • It helps me understand which social media platforms are most successful for me - which I should focus on and which I might want to focus less on.
    • I can also see which blog posts people are reading - so I know which topics resonate most. I can write more of those, hopefully gaining more visitors.
    Incentivized
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