Solid Multi Tenant BI Tools with embedding for SaaS business
December 06, 2022
Solid Multi Tenant BI Tools with embedding for SaaS business
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with GoodData
We are using it in two areas. One for inhouse analytics and another for enabling advance analytics for customers on higher plans. Inhouse analytics we are looking at state of onboarding for specific customers and overall within our system. This give us insight while tapping on the same infrastructure as our customers leading to cost saving and development time.
Provide insight into data for both internal use and customer needs with minimal development required beyond initial setup and integration. It also provide us with a way to prototype new report type easily before building them within the system.
- Report building
- Ease of onboarding
- Scalable cost structure
- Complexity of the cost structure
- Changing of super admin to another person
- Managing access
- Cost saving
- Development saving
- Customer satisfaction
We have everything up within 1 week, the embedding would have taken between two to three week but in the interest of time and priority we skipped that in the end and just use it separately for the time being with low integration. If a bigger team was available I could work on prototyping the report while working on the integration and achieve even tighter dateline.
A fairly usable multi tenant model was something rare for this kind of tooling. The UI for this might be less than desirable but the API is capable enough to offset this little problem. Most people have issue with finding a solution that provide a true multi tenant model that reduce exposure of data to per tenant basis. This hard segmentation reduce the risk of data leakage as long as the data is marked to the correct tenant while data sync happened.
Google analytics was one of the source beside our main application database. All the user behaviour data was merged together to give us a good overview on what is happening within our platform.
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Would you buy GoodData again?
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I actually investigated around 20 options and in most part the embedding + multi tenant mode that became a key concern. They either do not have the support or the price scaling is terrible or the startup cost is prohibitive.
On the average startup cost is around 50k per year and that is the bare minimal with no addon which is not usable, or the scaling in pricing is based off per users. So if I you are running a SaaS business that charge per user 15 dollars a month, if you just want to show one graph through embedding, it might cost you 10 dollars per user. This might make sense if you provide only power users with that option and charge a premium for it but in my scenario my motivation is to democratize the data. That itself makes it commercial not viable to have a cost structure like this.
On the average startup cost is around 50k per year and that is the bare minimal with no addon which is not usable, or the scaling in pricing is based off per users. So if I you are running a SaaS business that charge per user 15 dollars a month, if you just want to show one graph through embedding, it might cost you 10 dollars per user. This might make sense if you provide only power users with that option and charge a premium for it but in my scenario my motivation is to democratize the data. That itself makes it commercial not viable to have a cost structure like this.