ClearStory Data Advances Automated Business Discovery of Insights Across More Data Sources With New Smart, Data-Intelligent, Contextual StoryBoards

NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwired - Sep 27, 2016) - O'Reilly Strata + Hadoop World -- ClearStory Data, the company bringing business-oriented analytics and Data Intelligence to everyone through fast-cycle, disparate data analysis, today announced new advancements to its smart, Spark-based business intelligence platform that provide business users with automated discovery of insights and all related data when exploring within ClearStory's Interactive Storyboards. The improvements leverage ClearStory's unique capabilities in data-intelligent data profiling, called Data Inference, and the company's patented Intelligent Data Harmonization™ capability.

With the new capabilities, business users can explore insights in a narrated, interactive storyline. While a user is exploring a storyline in a StoryBoard, ClearStory will automatically surface and augment the exploration with all related insights and relevant new data, all in context. The result is fast, contextual answers to any business question and automatic augmentation of all related insights and relevant data that provide richer, smarter answers to feed better informed and more timely business decisions.

The impetus behind ClearStory's machine driven, data-intelligent approach to modern analytics is to eliminate the need for people-driven laborious data prep, IT-driven data modeling and the rigid constraints of traditional business dashboards. When using these outdated methods, users simply hit a wall every time they view a dashboard and have new questions arise that weren't pre-defined in the dashboard. The analytics industry's traditional dependency on pre-modeled and pre-wired metrics severely limits interactivity and drill-down discovery capabilities using traditional dashboards because of their single, pre-defined models' rigid hierarchy.

ClearStory's machine-driven approach to business self-service data discovery provides more flexibility and discoverability across large complex datasets through a dynamically generated data model, which is surfaced in the resulting Data Stories and StoryBoards. With ClearStory, business users benefit from a continuous cycle of insights, and the ability to ask and answer new questions quickly and in-context with rich relevant data and related insights to guide them.