Item: GoodData
Rating: 9
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use GoodData for a business reporting dashboards which allows us to keep up to date on the performance of the business across many key metrics. We are also able to dive deep into this performance to understand how these metrics are affected by various attributes. These are available anywhere anytime to the whole business helping develop a data driven culture.

The main problem GoodData addresses is having a single point for understanding business performance without the need to go into lots of different system dashboards.

Pros and Cons

Scheduled data loads
Simple layout
Self service analytics
Simple to use and powerful data modelling

The new dashboard layouts are very restrictive compared to the old pixel perfect layouts
SSO integration on platform could be easier

Return on Investment

Positive impact to data driven culture
Greater awareness among business of performance

Usability

GoodData is quite useable for power users but it takes a lot of work to get it to that point, it is not just an out of the box dashboard, which is not really possible. You need to, as with all tools, take the time to build out your dashboard projects properly so that less frequent users will be able to understand how to use the various tabs and filters to get what they are after.

Implementation

Very quickly, originally it probably took a few weeks, but more recent projects we have spun up within a day because we are already aware of how to do so.

Self-Service Analytics

The self service functionality is great providing users the ability to explore metrics and having chosen a metric only be presented with the relevant attributes and metrics. This allows other users in the business to create reports and explore data saving the data team lots of time.

Alternatives Considered

Tableau Cloud and Microsoft Power BI

The hosted GoodData platform is simple to set up and provides a clean dashboarding experience that can be shared with users easily. Other products can often try to fill the self-service and dashboard roles in one interface which can be a bit full on.

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?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of GoodData go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy GoodData again?

Yes

Likelihood to Recommend

For automated daily dashboards it is great and simple to set up allowing it to be shared widely in a business and be up to date as per your requirements. For more ad hoc analysis involving custom querying of underlying tables it has limited in platform capability through the analyze functionality.

GoodData for all

Overall Satisfaction with GoodData