Business Intelligence
Redshift, Snowflake, and the Two Philosophies of Cost
What intermix.io's forced acquisition tells us about the two philosophies of cost in data analytics.
Inner Join
Gartner's FrontRunners 2020 Ranks Holistics As Top 3 Data Analysis Tools By Customer Satisfaction
Holistics was ranked one of the top 3 data analysis tools globally by Gartner's FrontRunners 2020 report, in terms of Customer Satisfaction. Only 20 out of 176 software products considered were selected for this list.
Business Intelligence
A Dive Into Metadata Hubs
A look into metadata hubs, which might just be the hottest category of data tools of the past two years.
Business Intelligence
Measuring a Company When a Company Is Mature
We take a look at the business fundamentals of the operations stage — the last of three stages in a company's life.
Business Intelligence
Understanding the Scale Stage
The scale stage is the second of three stages in a startup's life. In this post, we discuss what product-market fit means, and then we look at healthy growth (the kind that leads to winning) and unhealthy growth (the kind that leads to company death).
Inner Join
What It's Like Being a Growth Hunter Intern at Holistics
This is one of the #lifeatholistics stories written by our Intern graduate.
Redash limitations and top alternatives
Redash is a good, popular open-source SQL-based BI tool that can be installed easily on local environment to get a simple SQL-to-chart functionality going. Yet as your analytics needs grow, you might face some pain points when using Redash
Using Holistics
SQL Tips
How to unnest / extract nested JSON data in MySQL 8.0
In this article, we will demonstrate how to use the JSON_EXTRACT and JSON_TABLE functions in MySQL8.0 to convert JSON table into tabular data for analysis and reports, and also how to utilise it in Holistics for drag-and-drop reports.
Business Intelligence
Business Fundamentals
Measurement Before Product Market Fit
A startup's first job is to create a customer. We take a closer look at how that affects the metrics you measure at the product stage of a startup's lifecycle.