ClearStory Data Review

Automated Data Preparation, Profiling, And Inference

ClearStory Data speeds up the process of transforming raw data from multiple disparate data sources into live insights. It helps users immediately organize and prepare data so they can quickly come up with insights that improve how they make decisions. The solution features a data inference and profiling engine which automates the data preparation process. This engine automatically and intelligently infers the semantics in the raw data, reads values, and performs transformations. As a result, users no longer need to model or restructure any metric, dimension, or attribute as they collect data from multiple sources.

Intelligent Data Harmonization/Blending

The data harmonization or blending capability of ClearStory Data is one of its powerful features. ClearStory Data is an application that is built based on Apache Spark, a powerful processing engine and cluster-computing framework. Thus, the business intelligence solution utilizes the data blending capability of Apache Spark to combine data from heterogeneous data sources.

It identifies the relationships among data dimensions. A data dimension is comprised of a set of data attributes that a business or an organization wants to keep track of. These attributes can be customers, products, stores, time, sale, profit, or revenue. Thus, ClearStory Data can automatically blend data based on such data attributes to come up with a clear picture of how data from multiple sources relate to one another. ClearStory Data’s data harmonization capability eliminates the need of pre-modeling data, and it doesn’t limit users to rigid data structures.

Smart Data Discovery

Once data is profiled and harmonized, users can start conducting analysis. ClearStory Data offers a feature called Smart Discovery which allows them to access all the relevant data and data values they need, and identify patterns and trends. Thus, they will be able to identify data values, patterns, and correlations across blended or harmonized data. As they are able to access all relevant data from every data source or harmonized result, they can concentrate on the most critical data sets where they want to draw meaningful insights from.

Visualize Data  And Gain Interactive Insights

Data visualization is another capability offered by ClearStory Data. The solution automatically generates and renders visualizations as soon as it discovers and understands the data source, size, shape, and semantics. Through the aid of easy-to-use navigation and controls, users will be able to utilize these visualizations to explore data and gain insights.

Explore Data And Insights

With ClearStory Data; businesses, organizations, and departments can easily explore data and immediately generate insights from data. As they conduct data analyses, the BI solution organizes the insights drawn from those analyses in storyboards. What’s great about this is that as data is updated, the storyboards are also modified accordingly, allowing users to discover new insights. Thus, they can ask new questions, receive answers immediately, expand their insights, as well as add new data on the fly.

Active Collaboration

In addition, ClearStory Data permits users to share insights with their colleagues. As data are being updated and insights are evolving, users can make discussions among themselves. They can also capture insights in context and track them easily. This is because the solution has the capability to generate the state of data along with their visual representation and context.