TARGIT Decision Suite Data Service to harness data

TARGIT Decision Suite, released an upgrade to Data Discovery tool, TARGIT Data Service. The latest Data Discovery release is packed with new and updated features that bring powerful new functionality to better connect, manipulate, and transform data. New data sources open up millions of external data sets that can be combined with internal data to reveal more actionable insight than ever before.

“With the new release of TARGIT’s Data Discovery module we are now allowing the business analysts to enrich their traditional data warehouse solution with external and big data sources that can give them a competitive advantage,” says Ulrik Pedersen, TARGIT CTO. “This is done using simple drag and drop functionality, so the bottleneck in the IT department is eliminated.”

TARGIT Data Service moves beyond the existing reporting and BI platform to give more robust insight into performance. Users can import their own external data sources and analyze in conjunction with existing data.

“This allows companies to answer questions such as, is my performance affected by the weather? If it is what sells better on a rainy day? What prices do my three main competitors advertise on their website and do I see my performance fluctuate with changes in their advertised prices?” continues Pedersen. “That is the kind of power we put at the fingertips of even the non-IT savvy business analysts with this release.”

The new release boasts 70 percent faster data loads for large files, and a substantial improvement in query performance when used with TARGIT Decision Suite 20015 HF2.

A new format option is available for all data sources. The easy-to-access format engine offers a wealth of possibilities for improving data without the need to write complex ETL scripts. All columns in a data source can be utilized in the new calculation engine, giving users more than 50 functions with syntax for cleaning up and improving raw data that has been imported. Users proficient with Excel will find it simple to clean data, calculate averages, create custom bins, and much more.Dynamically transform data in selected columns of data sources with just a few clicks. Or add news columns to existing CSV or Excel files without the need to edit the existing data source. No macro or manual Excel work is needed to mix with existing data sets. Improvements in data load speed and query performance have been made to existing data sources including Directory, HTML tables, and Google Analytics.

The new TARGIT Analysis data source lets users combine data from existing cubes with live data from online data sources or Excel files. An array of new data source connections have been added to the already robust list of data sources.