Product Overview
Data Analysis and Visualization for Individuals and Teams
Explore Analytics is a cloud-based service for interactive data analysis and visualization. Use it to analyze your data and discover the main factors and trends that explain the performance of your business. By identify these key factors you'll know what to watch for and be able to forecast the performance of your business. The insight that you gain will have a positive impact on your business allowing you to better manage, make positive changes and grow your business.
Of course you're not limited to business performance. You can use Explore Analytics to study any topic such as the effects of public policy, trends in demographics, academic and scientific research, or any subject for which you have data.
"Slice and Dice"
Explore Analytics gives you the tools that large enterprises use. You can filter, aggregate, calculate, sort, and compare data to reveal interesting information. You create data views that can be visualized, presented in reports, and easily shared with others.
Visualize Your Data
Improve the management and performance of your business by identifying the factors that affect your business. Explore Analytics allows you to measure and compare these factors and predict future trends and opportunities.
Explore Analytics has a rich set of visualizations. Take for example the Timeline chart: This unique visualization leverages interactive capabilities that were first used for analyzing stock prices and extends them to any times-series data. You can present the data as lines, bars, area, or stock, scroll through your data, zoom in for details or zoom out to see the overall trend.
Delivered as a Cloud Service
With Explore Analytics you’ll be up and running in minutes because there’s no software to install. Once you register, you can upload data from a file or connect directly to your database or other data sources. You’re ready to explore!
Instant Access to Your Analytics and Visualization from Anywhere
Use Explore Analytics to access all your analytics in one place.
You can access Explore Analytics and interact with your data from anywhere using nothing more than a browser and Internet connection. Touch devices such as the iPad are fully supported. Unlike other products, all the functionality is available on the iPad and you are not restricted to viewing only. You can build new reports from scratch using nothing but your iPad.
Current and most recent versions of Safari, Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer (version 9) are supported. Safari on iOS (iPad) is fully supported.
Access Your Data No Matter Where It Resides
Whether your data resides in databases, big data, applications, or files, Explore Analytics can instantly reach it.
Databases
Explore Analytics provides robust capabilities for access to Oracle, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Microsoft Access and more. Explore Analytics connects to your database for instant access to up-to-date data and there's no need to copy data over. Access to a database behind your organization's firewall is done using the Explore Analytics Agent.
Big Data
Explore Analytics can access Hadoop and join data from Hadoop with traditional data sources using it's integration with Cirro.
Applications
Explore Analytics provides direct data access to applications. By getting data from the application (rather than bypassing the application and accessing its database) you see the data organized the same familiar way as you see it in the application. No cryptic database objects and no bypassing application access control. Any best of all, no need to build a separate data store.
Reporting for ServiceNow Explore Analytics provides live reporting for your ServiceNow instance.
Google Spreadsheets
Data in Google Spreadsheets can be instantly imported into Explore Analytics for analysis and visualization.
Files
Explore Analytics provides easy-to-use data import functionality that allows you to bring data and store it on the Explore Analytics Server. You can manage data is multiple tables. These tables can be related to perform analysis of data in multiple tables.
Bring data from spreadsheets, applications (by exporting the data), and various public data sources such as government and academic sources.
