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Fastest Visual Analytics
In business, speed is often what differentiates the winners from the also-rans. The right decision made too late ends up being the wrong decision. So, it’s hard to overestimate the value of fast, interactive analysis for business decision makers.
Zoomdata delivers fast visual analytics and data visualization for all business users, not just analysts and data scientists. We accelerate time-to-insight by enabling visual analysis at the speed of thought, while reducing the clutter that distracts novice users in traditional analytics applications.
Visual Interface
Human beings are inherently visual creatures, and the key for people to most quickly and effectively gain understanding and insight from information is visualization. It holds the key to innovation and competitive differentiation for companies large and small. We built Zoomdata to enable the broadest range of users to explore that world. Built to be intuitively used by everyday business users and business analysts, Zoomdata empowers knowledge workers at every level of an organization. Zoomdata supports a wide spectrum of data visualization -- from exploratory data analysis and dashboarding to embedded visual analytics.
The Problem with Today’s BI Tools
Most of today's business intelligence (BI) tools evolved in a world dominated by relational databases and CSV files. So they're not suited to modern data architectures. They were not designed for visualizing big or fast streaming information. Querying big data sources as if they were relational tables results in slow performance and limited functionality. As data volumes grow, these problems worsen because legacy tools don't scale well.
Zoomdata is an open platform that provides visual analytics solutions for big and fast data. Natively architected for cloud and on-premise deployments, its modern architecture delivers visual analysis of huge data sets in seconds. Zoomdata's patented Data Sharpening™ technology delivers the industry's fastest visual analytics for real-time streaming and historical data.
Zoomdata Data Sharpening
Zoomdata's patented Data Sharpening™ technology delivers the industry's fastest visual analytics for historical and real-time streaming data. Conceptually, the Data Sharpening process is similar to the way large image files or streaming video files display in a browser. When you start to load the image file, you see a blurry approximation of the image. But as the file loads in the background, the image sharpens until the entire image eventually comes into clear focus.
Data Sharpening brings that same experience to visualizing data analytics. When a user creates or modifies a chart, graph, or dashboard, Zoomdata immediately displays a partial or approximate rendering of the data. Zoomdata continuously updates the visualization with more and more data, while the user is free to continue with their analysis -- drill, filter, zoom -- without waiting for the fully sharpened final result to be available. While the image sharpens, the user can still interact with it, zooming into more detail or launching a follow up question -- without having to wait for the entire query to return. Users can continue their big data exploration and analytical reasoning at the speed of thought, without waiting for long-running queries over billions of rows of data.
How Data Sharpening Works
When the user interacts with an image such as a geovisualization, Zoomdata takes that single logical query defined by the visual representation and turns it into a set of smaller micro-queries. Each micro-query executes in much less time than the original large query. When the results from the first micro-query return, Zoomdata immediately displays that result to the user as an approximation of the final visualization. As the rest of the micro-queries complete, Zoomdata’s streaming architecture updates the image with new data, revealing increasingly better and more accurate approximations of the final result until the full result set comes into focus. Zoomdata assembles the multiple result streams from the micro-queries, while giving accelerated response time to the user.
Zoomdata Data Sharpening leverages Spark and other technologies for high-scale performance. It demonstrates the benefits of Zoomdata’s streaming architecture, which can push query results from the source to the user while successively improving visual approximations with Data Sharpening.
