For the past more than 1 year DabbleDB guys have been working on some impressive database work out in Vancouver. With EditGrid and GoogleSpredsheets trying to take on Microsoft headon, Dabble wants to stay clear and add much needed intelligence to our data. But what they were missing till today was an important piece of functionality – Charts. Couple of options we had till now- EditGrid and IBM Many Eyes. Anyway wait is over for Dabble fans. Today Dabble launched the charting feature that does intelligent guessing on your data and plots it accordingly onto Line or bar charts. I would like to see more charting options but this is great to start with.
Dabble has also got more intuitive about address and location data in your spreadsheets. Any data column which is configured to have Location data now gets mapped onto a Map. So getting a quick view of customer or revenue data mapped onto a US-State map gets a no-brainer.
I would still like to mention that LucidEra, the Enterprise 2.0 BI company for real, will have its awesome reporting/analytics interface and capabilities to show off pretty soon. However most of the application feature will stay out of bound for most of us ‘cause of the high price tag compared to Dabble DB. Hope LucidEra also plans a consumer version.
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February 9, 2007 at 2:25 am |
Hi Vivek –
Thanks for the flattering comments about LucidEra. We’ve spent a lot of time making it great, and we’re excited to release it soon. Regarding your comment about the high price tag compared to DabbleDB — our current focus is on solving the problem that employees can’t get the fundamental information they need to succeed in their roles (e.g. information about how they’re doing against their goals, what’s going on with their customers, how things are trending, etc.) The problem is that the data they need is scattered across several sources, such as CRM applications, financial applications, and spreadsheets. We’re focusing on making it easy to a) bring all that data together, and b) report against it and analyze it. Since we’re currently focusing on selling to companies, we price our solution accordingly. But, our technology can just as easily analyze more consumer focused types of data. In the future, don’t be surprised if you see us focus more on consumers.
March 9, 2007 at 3:46 am |
[...] Metaweb, the San Francisco, California based stealthy startup has finally given a glimpse of its first product – Freebase. From the early details, Freebase sounds like an ever expanding knowledgebase based on semantic web concepts. Any information fed into the Freebase gets analyzed and related to semantic categories created in the system. In some respects DabbleDB team has also been working in this direction like automatically mapping location data onto maps. However Freebase goes all they way by categorizing your data and making the interlinking possible for faster and accurate data search. [...]
March 28, 2007 at 1:56 pm |
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May 21, 2007 at 12:18 am |
[...] Steve, it’s time to get On-Demand! And yes, On-Demand BI is definitely hot. Tags: [...]
June 27, 2007 at 3:07 pm |
[...] Denver based Trackvia has kept such a low profile all along that I had almost missed out on the app had it not been for PEHub reporting on the funding news. Earlier this year, Flywheel Ventures Invests invested an undisclosed amount of funding in the startup that delivers MS Access like database functionality online. While Trackvia is not the first in the space that includes DabbleDB, Caspio Bridge, eUnifyDB, Smartsheet, and in some aspects CogHead, and WuFoo, I seem to like the feature-set and responsiveness of the platform. [...]