Name: Narrator
Author: AI Narrator, Inc.

Help Desk

Kiosk

Web and Video Conferencing

Customer Support

Agile Development

Image Recognition

Service Mesh

Development

Alumni Management

School Management

Education

Board Management

Business Intelligence (BI)

Collaboration

Digital Rights Management (DRM)

Enhanced 911 (E911)

Enterprise

Accounting

Invoicing

Nonprofit Accounting

Finance and Accounting

Applicant Tracking

Corporate Learning Management

HR Management

HR Service Delivery

Payroll

Talent Intelligence

Talent Management

Vendor Management Systems (VMS)

Workforce Analytics

Workforce Management

Human Resources

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)

Cloud Cost Management

Cloud Storage

Database Performance Monitoring

Email Verification

Fraud Detection

IP Address Management (IPAM)

IT Asset Disposal

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)

License Management

Low-Code Development

Managed IT Service

Master Data Management (MDM)

Network Diagnostics

Network Performance Monitoring

Network Simulation

NoSQL Databases

Rack Servers

Tape Storage

Wireless LAN

Workload Automation

Information Technology

A/B Testing

Ad Serving & Retargeting

All-in-One Marketing

Blogging

Content Management

Digital Rewards

Email Marketing

Marketing Automation

Online Proofing

Screen and Video Capture

Social Media Management

Survey & Forms Building

Video Editing

Web Analytics

Website Builder

Marketing

Project Management

Professional Services

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Sales Consulting

Sales

API Security

File Integrity Monitoring

Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)

Security

Animation

Construction Management

Debt Collection

ID Card

Last Mile Delivery

Municipal

Vertical-Specific

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Narrator is a data analytics platform that, according to the vendor, aims to empower analysts in answering questions more efficiently. The platform offers advanced processing tools to address common data processing problems such as identity resolution, anomaly detection, and incremental updates. It also provides automatic helper columns, intelligent debuggers, and data checks to ensure data integrity and prevent loss.

According to the vendor, data analysts can leverage Narrator to easily combine modeled data using flexible building blocks called activities. They can handle changes and follow-up questions instantly by swapping activities, redefining connections, or switching columns. The platform allows them to add features without duplication or dropping rows, potentially speeding up their workflows.

For data engineers, Narrator provides the ability to build an Activity Schema using either Narrator or dbt with reusable building blocks. This, according to the vendor, allows analysts to independently add features to their datasets, reducing the need for tickets and maintenance. Everything can be compiled into SQL and easily shared with clear lineage and contained self-service.

The vendor claims that Narrator can improve efficiency and speed for heads of data by providing a data tool that allows unlimited data questions without overwhelming the team. Real-time data modeling enables them to keep up with questions and empower stakeholders to handle their own follow-up questions. By building efficient teams that work together, they can deliver easy-to-understand data stories.

With Narrator, users can generate queries and send data to Excel or Google Sheets for quick analysis. They can interpret the data, add context, or create full reports with impact analyses, A/B tests, and funnels. The platform also allows data manipulation and pushing to production, with transparent and editable SQL queries, as claimed by the vendor.

According to the vendor, Narrator offers flexibility for exploring data, whether starting with existing datasets or creating new ones. Users can validate the data, inspect example customers, or delve into metrics to better understand the data. They can easily slice and dice the data, change their mind, add more features, or create new aggregations without any hassle.

Narrator powers self-service analytics across data, and allows users to get answers using the same data as the data team. Narrator helps data teams build a full customer 360 that covers every interaction customers have with a business (opened emails, paid invoices, new support tickets, etc...), which provides the foundation for a comprehensive self-service experience for the company. Users can answer quick questions and self-serve requests across the organization's data without needing SQL and then integrate that data with existing tools (spreadsheets, BI, and SaaS tools like email providers).

BIME, which was acquired by Zendesk, was a customer analytics platform that helped businesses measure and understand the customer experience from customer data. The product has been discontinued.

Base Plan

Big Data

BIME Analytics (discontinued)

Free

Accelerate

Boost

HockeyStack

Narrator

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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

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.

Narrator

Overview

What is Narrator?