Dashboards made easy

Hello Dashboard Enthusiasts!

A week ago, we showed the world what the new version of ClicData will look like…

First of all, let me thank you for all the amazing feedback and questions we received during and after the presentation. We had such a great response from the audience that we became even more enthusiast about delivering this new release to all of you!

For those who weren’t able to…

Discover the new ClicData!

Dear Dashboard Enthusiasts!

A big announcement today as we are inviting you to the presentation of new version of ClicData!

We have reached an important milestone in the development of ClicData’s next generation online data and dashboard application and it’s time to present it to you.

Please join usand participate in our online event, September 4th at 4pm and preview the new interface, features…

Managing IT Projects – Always a challenge

A successful project is defined by 3 dimensions:  time, cost and quality. It is documented that 60% of IT projects don’t satisfy one or more of these terms (IBM statistics). So, what makes the IT projects have such a high rate of failure? We just built a dashboard to go a bit deeper into this issue. You can access it by clicking on the link below:

Why IT project fails? – Click to see full the…

What it takes to drive a start up? Finding investors… a fun ride?

Now we are at Step 2, Finding the money! (read about step 1 right there!)

Money can be injected at different stages of the start-up growth, from the research activities to building the product and pushing it to the market.

In my experienced opinion”the later the better” so you have a chance to grow your company value before sharing some of the pie.

We have been lucky to sell services while…

Understanding your neighbors, Geert Hofstede & ClicData

If you never heard of the Hofstede’s theory, here is a little catch up for you. It is the first quantitative method to analyze a culture depending on a couple of dimensions: Individualism, Power Distance, Masculinity, and Uncertainty Avoidance.

Because we all know theory can be a little boring, I have put a short definition for each dimension in a ClicData dashboard I’ve built today.

Select two…

Holidays, holidays…

After 9 months of break, I didn’t actually get into the working-shape and 8 hours-schedule because I realized that a long weekend will come…due to a public holiday.

I heard that in France there are a lot of holidays. I am not complaining. It is nice to have a long weekend, so I did some research. Just to be prepared for the next ones :)  and I discovered that France is one of the countries with…

How Analytics helped the Netherlands to qualify for the semi finals of the FIFA World Cup.

I think most of us have seen the movie Moneyball (if not, you should, it’s a great movie), where Brad Pitt decides to rely on the power of data analysis to build a baseball team by hiring the most promising players who aren’t “mainstream”.

Analytics in sport is not something new, and anybody who has been watching a game lately saw that we now just have stats about pretty much everything…

ClicData & Internet World 2014

We are finally back from London and where we had an amazing experience at Internet World 2014!

It was the very first time we were showing ClicData at a trade show and we definitively enjoyed the experience!

Actually meeting some of you who are current users of ClicData was pretty awesome, and while we are not quite there to announce our own “ClicData Tradeshow” yet I can tell you that we are very…

  ClicData, a cloud based business dashboards and data warehouse software company, has just raised 1 Million US dollars in funding to support its recent launch.  After opening its doors to small and medium businesses in need to centralize and report on their financial, sales and marketing data, thousands of users have already subscribed in just 6 months of operations.

With 5000+ users and over…

D – 5 before Internet world

Hi Everyone!

Next week, it will be the very first time we will be showing ClicData at a tradeshow… and we are super excited about it!

We will be present @ InternetWorld in London as part of London’s technological week starting next Tuesday at 10am at Excel Convention & Exhibition Center

If you are passing by don’t hesitate to come and say Hi! We will be running a lot of demos and we will be very…

Cheese, perfume and IKEA…

When did I start to like cheese?

I remember as a kid that I hated cheese. Now I absolutely love it! I can now have all kinds of cheese that as a kid I would make funny faces  due to the smell!  Blue cheese, smelly, even those that you need a spoon to scoop it out because its almost liquid.  Hmmm…

Ok I’m back.  Where was I?  Oh yes.  Somewhere between the age of 16 and 25 I lost the fear and the…

SSMS Could not load file or assembly msmgdsrv, Version=9.0.0.0

Hi everyone,

Today I an into an error using SSMS while clicking on the button check for an MDX query, the error message was: “Could not load file or assembly ‘msmgdsrv, Version=9.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89845dcd8080cc91′ or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified. (MDXQueryGenerator)“

After some investigations I found out that the path for the dll needs…

Onward! To the Future!

  Dear all,

You may have noticed that we have reduced the frequency of the updates of ClicData the last couple of months.

There is a very good reason for that, and it is not that we are losing our passion… quite the opposite actually.

We have started working on the brand new ClicData, a version which will propel it ahead, in the future.

Get ready for next month as we will start showing the new…

What it takes to drive a start up? A comic tale about engineers and marketers…

I am going to be sharing with you a number of funny episodes which we believe will entertain you and might even make you feel like getting ready for your own start up!

We will talk about funding and scrum sessions and getting clients to trust you in the early stages of launch and how one should stick to the vision regardless.

Let’s start with the HR piece of it: getting engineers “the geeks” and…

But, What is a Dashboard?

Hello folks!

Every day at ClicData, we get into a lot of very interesting discussions about dashboards, reports, the use of cloud technology etc.

While a lot of our users know their way around those topics, some of them have a beginner approach to them. They usually see our example page on our website and have a lot questions about dashboards; how to create them, why is it interesting to use them…

Making dashboards work for you…

How many times have you produced a great spreadsheet with beautiful, stunning charts that precisely use company data to show progress on a project, a marketing plan, or product sales for example  - only to be shot down and asked to go back to the drawing board to take into account some new data or facts?

An entire presentation may be deemed irrelevant if one or two facts are not correct.  If all…

HeartBleed, your test results came back negative.

Hi there Clicdata Users!

Just a quick mesage to let you know that after running a series of tests on all of our servers and services, ClicData is NOT vulnerable to HeartBleed.

If you are asking yourself what this is all about, I strongly recommend you to check this article about it,  but in a nutshell Heartbleed is a vulnerability which affects an encryption protocol widely used on the internet…