What sets the Skytide Analytical Platform apart from other analytical solutions?
Analyzes all data — Skytide can analyze all types of data, including what you have in your existing data warehouse plus data that is currently unavailable to conventional business process management and BI solutions — extensible and unstructured data.
Figure 1. The Skytide Analytical Platform improves business processes by analyzing all types of data from all data sources and providing business users with very fast time to analysis.
- Extensible data includes sources that dynamically expand to accommodate activities beyond the control of the person managing the data, such as Web logs and usage logs from automated voice systems such as IVR (interactive voice response) systems.
- Unstructured data is information that cannot be managed by a relational database and includes sources of information that do not conform to a predefined data format, including text documents, email, chat, text messaging, multimedia files, and voice-to-text transcriptions of customer service calls.
Unique analytical capabilities — Skytide performs new types of analysis that not only deliver the wide spectrum of metrics provided by BI and BPM products, but also uncover the drivers behind those metrics to improve the business process instead of merely measuring it.
Fast time to analysis — Skytide facilitates a process of going from raw data in any format to analysis and reporting without the need to use ETL (extraction, transformation, loading) processes to move the data into a data warehouse. ETL is a slow, inflexible process that results in some data loss, such as data flattening and data reconciliation. Skytide ensures high data fidelity and integrity. Also, as the data changes, Skytide provides immediate access, without having to go through another data loading and modeling exercise, speeding the time to insight.
Designed for business users — Most business intelligence (BI) and business process management (BPM) tools require significant experience in building analytical models. Skytide delivers an intuitive, easy to use modeling environment so business users can get the information they need to make business decisions in a timely manner, without technical expertise to build data models.
High data fidelity — Current BI and BPM tools require a layer of data abstraction from the source as the data is transformed and loaded into a data warehouse. Skytide works directly on the source data, delivering higher data fidelity and integrity for more accurate analysis.
Open standards — he Skytide Analytical Platform is based on open industry standards, including XML, Xpath (XML Path Language), and Java, facilitating open integration with existing data sources and reporting tools and easy modification to work within any business technology environment.