Data discovery solution made available free on MS Office
Businesses are increasingly keen to unlock the insights contained within their data. But the tools to do this are often expensive and complex, putting them beyond the reach of smaller organizations.
Analytics specialist BeyondCore has announced a collaboration with Microsoft to make its data discovery solution available to Office users for free.
The new BeyondCore Analyst for Office provides single‐click analysis and detailed story‐based explanations of insights directly integrated into the familiar Office suite. It allows business users to analyze all data, without the need to formulate sophisticated questions or design complex queries, cut through the clutter to identify and act on the most relevant, statistically‐validated patterns, and visualize, understand, share and act on the results.
"Microsoft Office is the preferred analytics environment for most businesspeople. We congratulate BeyondCore on the way its Analyst for Office is empowering many more people around the world to extract powerful insights from big data," says Kirk Koenigsbauer, Microsoft corporate vice president, Office 365 Client Apps and Services.
There are limits to the free version of course, it lets users conduct up to ten analyses a month on smaller datasets in Excel or Microsoft SQL Server. Users can upgrade to paid versions of BeyondCore Analyst for Office to conduct more analyses, analyze larger datasets or access Big Data sources such as Hadoop.
Users can also try BeyondCore's enterprise solutions for 15 days free. This offers additional features including the ability to schedule analyses to automatically run each day, week or month, secure collaboration, audit and monitoring capabilities, and predictive and prescriptive analysis.
"BeyondCore's mission has always been to dramatically simplify the complexity of analytics, making it instantly available for business users," says BeyondCore Founder and CEO Arijit Sengupta. "But users often feel 'this is too good to be true.' Now with the free version of BeyondCore Analyst for Office, they can just try for themselves and see that analytics has changed forever. After using BeyondCore, users will no longer equate pretty graphs with actionable analysis".
More information can be found on the BeyondCore website. For the remainder of 2015 it's also offering an Implement on Our Dime deal where BeyondCore will conduct the first analysis or schedule the first dynamic dashboard on the clients' data, at no risk.
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