GigaOM, Sep 10, 2012, Derrick Harris
Already a success thanks to its flagship cloud service that delivers analytics tied to popular software-as-a-service applications, GoodData is expanding its presence across users' data environments. With a set of new business-specific offerings called GoodData Bashes ("business" plus "mashups" equals "bashes"), employees dealing with sales, marketing or subscription data can connect their various data sources to the GoodData service and receive valuable analytics in return.
Like GoodData's original service - and most cloud-based analytics services (e.g., Datahero or Bime) - Bashes are all about simplicity. Each Bash (GoodSales, GoodMarketing and GoodSubscription) is tuned for the metrics that matter in those fields, and GoodData delivers the charts, dashboards and other content to help users make sense of what's going on in their department. All users have to do is connect their Bashes to relevant data sources, which GoodData Founder and CEO Roman Stanek told me is also very easy to do.
... Stanek said his company's infrastructure, which runs on the Amazon Web Services cloud computing platform, handles about 20,000 data feeds per day from its 6,000-plus customers. GoodData is running Hadoop, in-memory databases, analytics software and everything else necessary to ingest, process, analyze and visualize data so customers don't have to.
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