Business Analytics with Simple KPIs

Using Viur to create useful KPIs If you already use Viur you know that it connects to all kinds of data sources enabling you to unlock the value of stored data without needing to be a data scientist or a developer. For those who don’t know us yet, we offer an analytical platform that connects with your business data (cloud and on-premises) allowing you to visualize and explore that data. So, with this in mind, we would like to show you how to create some sales KPIs (key performance indicators) using our demo database. For this demo, we chose to use the Northwind database that exemplifies a typical relational model for a store with orders, products, clients, suppliers, employees...

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Business Intelligence Survey

Some weeks ago we decided to know a little better our customers’ preferences by doing a small survey. Since at the time most of our subscribers were from Portugal we decided to focus on the Portuguese users. The results were very useful and they had an impact on the baseline we set to the beta version of Viur. Because we like to share here goes the results. User typology From these two charts, we can see our main targets are the managers and developers from Small and Medium Businesses. It came as a surprise the high percentage of developers, but that can be explained because they are more prone to be early adopters. Databases and Cloud Services In the database...

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Seedcamp Berlin Diary

Sunday - day 0 Our flight was early in the morning so we had to catch the 2am bus to the Lisbon Airport. 2500 kilometers later we arrived at Berlin and as it was early we did a short city tour before we could check in at the apartment we booked. We took our time and enjoyed some local attractions, including bratwurst and beer, and then, back at the apartment the rest of the day was spent preparing the next day’s pitch. Monday - day 1 The first day of Seedcamp is for the teams to know each other and to practice the pitch and get some feedback. Some good questions were asked during our presentation so we noted...

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