At ClearStory Data, our product is designed to put information and insight quickly into the hands of a diverse set of end-users who are often widely dispersed across an organization. We want timely and insightful analysis to be an everyday activity for everyone within the organization. In order to achieve this goal, we are investing heavily in designing the user experience of our product.

In this continuation of Sunday's blog post, I'd like to share two more critical principles that are helping us achieve the goal of great product design at ClearStory Data. Continue reading.

Collecting, converging, and accessing petabytes of data isn't for the faint of heart. Some of the brightest minds in technology have applied their intellectual muscle to create innovative technical solutions that deal with big data. Recently, we have seen a lot of technical progress, but making big data systems effective for business decision-making has not progressed as quickly. In a recent study, a third of executives recognized that their organizations were using big data systems that "weren't designed to meet their needs." If the democratization of data is essential to advancing business decisions, it's time to make volumes of diverse data far easier to work with.

At ClearStory, we are enabling organizations to move to a data-driven business culture by delivering products that are useful, easy to use, and accelerate insight. Continue reading.