Name: DataScouts
Author: DataScouts

Help Desk

Web and Video Conferencing

Customer Support

Automation Testing

Image Recognition

Development

Academic Advising

Education

Business Intelligence (BI)

Collaboration

Contract Management

Supply Chain Management

Enterprise

Accounting

Cash Flow Management

Finance and Accounting

Applicant Tracking

Corporate Learning Management

HR Management

HR Service Delivery

Payroll

Talent Intelligence

Talent Management

Technical Skills Assessment

Workforce Analytics

Workforce Management

Human Resources

Cloud Storage

Data Integration

Data Mapping

Data Privacy Management

Database Load Balancing

Database Performance Monitoring

Debugging

Edge Computing

Event Monitoring

Fraud Detection

Governance, Risk & Compliance

IT Asset Disposal

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)

Internet Security

Managed Hosting

Master Data Management (MDM)

Network Diagnostics

Network Performance Monitoring

Secret Managers

Security Analytics

Storage Management

Tape Storage

Unified Endpoint Management (UEM)

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

WAN Optimization

Wireless LAN

Wireless WAN

Information Technology

A/B Testing

Ad Serving & Retargeting

All-in-One Marketing

Audience Intelligence

Community

Computer-Assisted Translation

Content Management

Digital Rewards

Email Marketing

Marketing Analytics

Marketing Automation

Predictive Analytics

Social Media Analytics

Social Media Management

Survey & Forms Building

Video Collaboration

Web Analytics

Marketing

Project Management

Professional Services

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Sales Consulting

Sales

Microsegmentation

Security

Animation

Chargeback Management

Chiropractic

Construction Management

Tax Practice Management

Vertical-Specific

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DataScouts is a software platform that combines data, artificial intelligence, and human expertise to provide market insights and support strategic decision-making. According to the vendor, this solution is suitable for companies of all sizes, from startups to large enterprises. It is utilized by various professionals and industries, including business analysts, innovation managers, business development managers, ecosystem thinkers, and technology and innovation professionals.

## Key Features

**Scouting Platform**: According to the vendor, the Scouting Platform leverages artificial intelligence to search through a pool of databases and find relevant cases and innovative business models based on assigned scores for data-driven inspiration.

**Monitoring Platform**: The Monitoring Platform allows users to map out, screen, and track prospects, customers, competitors, and potential business partners. According to the vendor, it provides continuous insights to identify new potential and exploit business opportunities.

**Crowdsourcing Platform**: With the Crowdsourcing Platform, users can identify stakeholders, establish contacts, and form collaborations. The vendor claims that it harnesses collective intelligence to find solutions to business or social issues and facilitates knowledge sharing and collaboration beyond company boundaries.

**Automatic Data Stream**: According to the vendor, the Automatic Data Stream feature continuously gathers and aggregates data from multiple sources, such as financial performance, investments, funding, shareholders, company size, locations, and target market. It enriches data using predefined parameters and assigns scores for objective criteria, ensuring a continuous stream of incoming information.

**Relationship Mapping**: The Relationship Mapping feature allows users to map connections between stakeholders and analyze relationships. According to the vendor, it helps identify key players and their roles in the ecosystem and visualize networks and relationships to understand the dynamics of the ecosystem.

**Customized Research**: The Customized Research feature enables users to stay updated with the latest news, developments, and industry trends by customizing research through the selection of relevant sources. According to the vendor, it helps monitor competitor activities and emerging opportunities, improve data strategies with interactive training sessions, and access global news sources.

**Workflow Solution**: The Workflow Solution feature allows users to rapidly search through a large pool of databases, filter and select technical developments and innovations, and rank search results based on relevance or assigned scores. According to the vendor, it provides a data-driven approach to inspire the innovation process and achieve sound results.

**Data Visualization**: According to the vendor, the Data Visualization feature allows users to visualize the ecosystem with maps and graphs. It helps analyze the density and interconnectedness between actors, identify key players and dealmakers in the network, and gain situational awareness with visual representations of data.

**Automatic Enrichment & Classification**: The Automatic Enrichment & Classification feature automatically gathers facts, figures, news, social buzz, and more. According to the vendor, it classifies and organizes data based on specific criteria and benchmarks portfolios of similar companies.

**Interactive Reporting**: The Interactive Reporting feature allows users to generate reports based on the collected data and customize them to focus on specific metrics or insights. According to the vendor, it enables sharing reports with stakeholders for informed decision-making and staying up-to-date with the latest trends and developments in the industry.

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Base Plan

Big Data

BIME Analytics (discontinued)

Yurbi

DataScouts

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BI Platform

Administration via Windows App

Administration via MacOS App

Administration via Web Interface

Live Connection to External Data

Snapshot of External Data

In-memory data model

OLAP (Pre-processed cube representation)

ROLAP (SQL-layer querying)

Multi-Data Source Reporting (Blending)

Data warehouse / dictionary layer

ETL Capability

ETL Scheduler

Supported Data Sources

Data sources that can be consumed by the application.

MS Excel Workbooks

Text Files (CSV, etc)

Oracle

MS SQL Server

IBM DB2

Postgres

MySQL

ODBC

Cloudera Hadoop

Hortonworks Hadoop

EMC Greenplum

IBM Netezza

HP Vertica

ParAccel

SAP Hana

Teradata

Sage 500

Salesforce

Google Analytics

BI Standard Reporting

Standard reporting means pre-built or canned reports available to users without having to create them.

Pixel Perfect reports

Pixel Perfect reports are highly-formatted reports with graphics and ability to preview the report before printing.

Customizable dashboards

Customizable dashboards are dashboards providing the builder some degree of control over the look and feel and display options.

Report Formatting Templates

Ad-hoc Reporting

Ad-Hoc Reports are reports built by the user to meet highly specific requirements.

Drill-down analysis

Drill down analysis is the ability to get to a further level of detail by going deeper into the hierarchy.

Formatting capabilities

Ability to format output e.g. conditional formatting, lines, headers, footers.

Predictive modeling

Predictive modeling is the ability to build future forecasting models.

Integration with R or other statistical packages

Integration with the open-source R predictive modeling environment.

Report sharing and collaboration

Report sharing and collaboration is the ability to easily share reports with others.

Report Output and Scheduling

Ability to schedule and manager report output.

Publish to Web

Publish to PDF

Output Raw Supporting Data

Report Versioning

Report versioning is the assignment of version numbers to each version of a report to help in tracking.

Report Delivery Scheduling

Report Delivery Schedule is the ability to have reports delivered to a destination at a specific data and time.

Delivery to Remote Servers

Ability to deliver reports to remote servers

Data Discovery and Visualization

Data Discovery and Visualization is the analysis of multiple data sources in a search for patterns and outliers and the ability to represent the data visually.

Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)

Pre-built visualization formats are canned visualization types that can be selected to visualize different kinds of data.

Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

Location analytics is the visualization of geographical or spatial data.

Predictive Analytics is the ability to build forecasting models based on existing data sets.

Support for Machine Learning models

Machine learning refers to computer programs that can learn when exposed to new data.

Pattern Recognition and Data Mining

Pattern recognition and data mining mean the ability to recognize hidden patterns in large quantities of data.

Access Control and Security

Access control means being able to determine who has access to which data.

Multi-User Support (named login)

Named model access means that users have access based on name and password.

Role-Based Security Model

Role-based access means that access to data is determined by job or position in the corporation.

Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

Multiple access permission levels means that different levels of users have different rights.

Report-Level Access Control

Report-level access control means that the type of report determines who has access to it.

Table-Level Access Control (BI-layer)

Field-Level Access Control (BI-layer)

DataScouts

Overview

What is DataScouts?