Just writing to inform the community that we recently released another service pack and are continually improving Good Data. Recent improvements include:
- Backend performance optimizations
- Account management features
- Built-in bug reporting
- Movable Element Browser
- and several other fixes that to make ongoing maintenance smoother and more efficient
Please keep the feedback coming! We are continuing to improve the product, and plan to release another version in about a month's time.
We have just released a service pack to the Good Data demo application. The service pack fixes many areas that you have recently reported. For example, we fixed the following errors:
Multiple metric editor fixes
PDF export issues in MSIE
Improved account registration and activation pages
Fixed the occasionally disappearing totals after sorting metrics
Enhanced selection behavior in the report definition dialog
Fixed a few HTTP caching issues
But we're not finished... stay tuned for our next scheduled release in the second half of September where we will release more new exciting features and improvements.
Thank you again for helping us make Good Data better, and please keep the feedback coming!
Added a new metric to global metrics (Employee Count) when creating a report - the metric got selected, but is disabled so there is no way to deselect it.
When I try to create a chart with more items that can be squeezed on an axis (I guess that it is this), then the chart is generated as empty. However, hovering with mouse over it shows that some data are there, but they are simply not visible (I'm using bar chart)
I click on the the activation link (which appears complete) but get this message: Unfortunately, this registration request doesn't exist. Maybe it already expired, or didn't exist at all.
In the list of reports, there are two numbers shown - number of snapshots and number of comments. As far as I can tell, only general comments to the report as a whole are counted as comments. I find it confusing that annotations are not counted - in the report detail, they are displayed as comments. Shouldn't they be counted in?
Was creating a report. I selected Pay Type as one of the attributes, plus some other attributes. Then I went back to edit it and in Pay Type selected "Monthly" attrib. value (i.e. unselected "Hourly"). Worked. Then I tried to select "Hourly" again, but it did not work - so went to edit it again and saw that only "Monthly" is selected. So tried again, but did not take affect. So next time I tried to click Select All, but that did not work either - I mean it did select "Hourly" but when I clicked OK, it did not affect the table at all. To fix this I had to deselect Pay Type as an attribute and select it again.
I consider GoodData tool to be a BI tool available over web interface with a possibility to collaborate (share comments). Looks like and interesting idea. Still, I can feel there are some questions to address, among others:
- Security - companies learned to give their customer data customers to SalesForce, but will they want to give their strategic thoughts to GoodData ?
- Usability - web browser based GUI is usually less handy than a desktop application. Will there be some desktop version of the tools or how GoodData plans to address this issue ?
- Availability of simple BI tools like MS Excel possibly with access not only to simple excel data, but also to any cubes by any BI datawarehousing tools - how does GoodData plan to deal with this competition ?
Collaboration - good feature, but maybe too simple. This may be best if it can be connected to the complete process, for example financial planning process. BPM/Workflow tools may solve this, also.GoodData may possibly provide some interfaces to more complex BPM systems (WebServices etc).
I have tried to find the value proposition, but maybe I have missed something - please, correct me any way if you feel the comments do not fit...
At Good Data, we have several ideas about how to improve our Element Browser, and I would like to share some of them with you and hear your opinion. For new reports, the Element Browser is opened automatically. For existing reports, you have to click "Edit" in Explore mode to open it.
In the Element Browser, you can edit the report attributes and metrics. Metrics are the numbers you see in the report (like Store Profit), and these numbers can be broken down by attributes (like Store Type). It means that you have to answer two questions in the Element Browser: What numbers do you want to see and how they should be sliced & diced. This is not obvious at first sight, and you can end up with an empty report if you forget to include a metric.
That's why we would like to come up with better visualization, increasing the importance of the metrics, and separating them from attributes.
When you create a big report with several metrics and many attributes, it's not always easy to imagine what your report will look like once you click OK. We would like to introduce a graphical preview of the report structure into the Element Browser. This preview will not display real numbers but rather the report definition in a very clear and simple way. In the preview picture, you can find out what attributes will be at the top and what will be on the left, what numbers you are computing, and how big the report is (rows x columns).
So these are our ideas. Do you like them? Suggestions are very welcome.
We are eager to get some feedback on our user interface. How did you like our app when you saw it the very first time? What it looked like? Was it intuitive enough? Please, tell us more.
I would appreciate to have a possibility to create and share tasks for the reports and also to be able to have a calendar with tasks and schedule for my reports - create and share events like "presentation of sales report to CEO" etc.
I wonder if you plan to implement some security features (certificates, mobile keys, etc.)? This is one of the first questions when talking to customers - "How can you secure my data and how you make sure that no one else but me or users I choose can see them?"
I like the widget displaying the getsatisfaction feed. Any way to put 'submit defect...' on every page that would go to getsatisfaction directly pre-filling URL of the page, etc?
When creating custom metrics, the editor is kind of buggy. I wanted to create new metrics for displaying number of employees. Chosen COUNT() aggregation, then wanted to enter Employee, but it was added at a wrong place, so I typed it in manually, OK'ed, but when updating the report, it gave me unexpected error - so I went back to edit the metrics and saw it shows just SELECT COUNT() - Employee was not there, so I added it again and then I got error immediately when trying to click OK (highlighting space between Employee saying it expects Fact, etc., etc.). So I deleted it, placed cursor between between the brackets and doubleclicked on Employee in the list of attributes. Finally it worked.
If you use this company's products or services, we'll add the company to your dashboard. If you work for this company, we'll add you as an employee. Got it, thanks!
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