Item: GoodData
Rating: 9
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

GoodData is being used by specific parts of our organization because of the large size and high number of employees and departments. GoodData helps resolve a large number of issues. We use Good Data to manage the metrics that drive our business. Good Data provides a great way to manage this. You can see all of the important metrics from one clean dashboard.

Pros and Cons

Excellent charts and drill down analysis. Everything on one page.
Excellent integration with other databases and software.
Great support and mobile app availability. All these features makes this software very useful.

To make any adjustments to the data flowing into the tool you need expert help.
The tool is pricy. Just like other BI tools, this tool also proves expensive.
It is difficult to use. It requires extensive training and support.

Alternatives Considered

Looker, Domo, Cyfe, Kissmetrics, Woopra, IBM CloudBurst, Tableau Desktop and SimilarWeb PRO

GoodData stacks up very well against most of the tools but there are some advantages other tools have over GoodData. We selected GoodData because of the ease of use of the tool and since we dont have tons of data that we need to process. for our needs this tool suited the best and did everything very beautifully. Drill-down analysis, charts, mobile support - all of it was beautiful.

Data Integration

Excellent connectivity with other data sources. We use MS Access, SQL, and other Oracle databases to stream data into this tool. This is slightly complex with the tool but once it is setup, data interpretation, charts, output is excellent. All the data points are covered without any issues. This tool can be extremely useful for mobile support also.

Collaboration and Sharing

Excellent sharing and access control capabilities. This tool can be accessed by users as a read-only or as an edit mode. Reports can be generated in PDF and can be distributed to teams to check them out. GoodData has very good reporting capabilities. Data can also be uploaded on the intranet for all users to view it.

Other Software Used

Access Auditor, Microsoft Cloud App Security, dbForge Studio for Oracle

Likelihood to Recommend

The tool is very user friendly most of the times. GoodData will literally grab any data point you
want. You can cross reference data and create all desired reports. It is very well suited in such situations. The only time there are issues are when there is a huge amount of data flowing through other databases (from Big Data). At this stage the tool gets slow and is not able to process everything.

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