Item: GoodData
Rating: 9
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

GoodData is enabling actionable data insights for our customers. GoodData is helping us share our data securely with our customers by embedding it in our application. Our Customers are able to securely interact with our data filtered to their requirements without needing to understand the data. It is helping us bring data insights to our customers quickly.

Support for multitenancy is one of the main reasons we are with GoodData. It is helping us to govern our data and provide a secure instance to our customers with the control they would like to provide to their internal customers.
It is helping us achieve speed in providing data analytics.

Pros and Cons

Secure Multitenant nodes for customers
Lower overall Costs
Providing actionable data insights
Ability to bring own data quickly using csv uploads
Fine grain control of users and access levels

More visualization options
Better documentation with small snipped videos
Segregation of roles in admin to control data model and data loads

Return on Investment

Enabling beautiful value-based insights to customers
Enabling non-technical users to interact with data without needing to fully understand the data
Need to fully understand and prebuild the data model.
GoodData is Not for data discovery

Usability

Drill down and Drill into capabilities that GoodData provides users to understand and see the data behind the metric and allow them to dig deeper into insight to get deeper insights.

Implementation

With the limited resources we have at our org It took us 3-4 months to set the product up with the help of professional services. Our data being more semistructured it took us longer to create a schematic model to enable data inisghts.

Self-Service Analytics

Releasing & Rolling out changes to customers with the option to roll back in case something goes wrong is a great feature.

Key Insights

Do you think GoodData delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with GoodData's feature set?

Yes

Did GoodData live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of GoodData go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy GoodData again?

Yes

Alternatives Considered

Looker

GoodData stacked better over Looker in its ability to manage distribute and provide custom control to end users.
overall cost with GoodData would be lower as it would wound not depend on the data platform for compute resources.

Other Software Used

Sigma Computing, Snowflake

Likelihood to Recommend

Best suited for Mid to Large size organizations with embedded requirements where custom data can be enabled for the users, and users build and visualize data by brining their own data.

Not a great fit for real-time data analytics.

GoodData is leader in Embedded Analytics scape

Overall Satisfaction with GoodData