GoodData vs. Rational BI

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
GoodData
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
GoodData is an analytics platform used by organizations to deliver real-time, governed insights, embedded into products, customized for users, and integrated into any data environment. At the heart of GoodData is a universal semantic layer: a shared, code-defined model that maps raw data into consistent business concepts, metrics, and logic. Metrics are authored once and reused across every dashboard, app, or API, to ensure accuracy, governance, and trust wherever analytics are…N/A
Rational BI
Score 7.7 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
Rational BI provides analytics, data science and business intelligence in an analytical platform that connects to databases, data files and cloud drives including AWS and Azure data sources, enabling users to explore and visualize data. Users can build real-time notebook-style reports directly in a web browser with JavaScript and SQL with direct and live connections to data. Filter and query data with an SQL database embedded in the client, without network…
$0
single user
Pricing
GoodDataRational BI
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Free
$0
single user
Professional
$129
single user
Enterprise
Varies
single user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
GoodDataRational BI
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
Additional DetailsAdditional cost per extra user (varies by edition)
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Community Pulse
GoodDataRational BI
Features
GoodDataRational BI
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
GoodData
7.9
Ratings
12% above category average
Rational BI
8.3
Ratings
1% below category average
Pixel Perfect reports7.90 Ratings7.60 Ratings
Customizable dashboards8.70 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates7.00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
GoodData
7.7
Ratings
0% below category average
Rational BI
8.3
Ratings
4% above category average
Drill-down analysis7.40 Ratings7.70 Ratings
Formatting capabilities7.00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration7.30 Ratings9.20 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
GoodData
7.2
Ratings
4% below category average
Rational BI
8.2
Ratings
1% above category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.10 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization6.90 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Predictive Analytics6.60 Ratings7.90 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining7.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
GoodData
8.0
Ratings
6% above category average
Rational BI
-
Ratings
Multi-User Support (named login)8.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model7.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)7.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
GoodData
8.1
Ratings
8% above category average
Rational BI
-
Ratings
REST API8.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Javascript API8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
iFrames8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
GoodData
-
Ratings
Rational BI
9.0
Ratings
6% above category average
Publish to Web00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Publish to PDF00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Report Versioning00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings9.20 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings9.30 Ratings
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User Ratings
GoodDataRational BI
Likelihood to Recommend
8.4
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7.7
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Likelihood to Renew
9.1
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Usability
7.9
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8.7
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Availability
7.0
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-
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Performance
8.0
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-
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Support Rating
8.7
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7.7
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In-Person Training
9.0
(0 ratings)
-
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Online Training
8.0
(0 ratings)
-
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Implementation Rating
9.0
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-
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Ease of integration
7.2
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User Testimonials
GoodDataRational BI
Likelihood to Recommend
If you have consistently formatted data, that you want regular reports on, plus flexibility to let end users build their own reports, GoodData is perfect. Especially if your end users are less technical. If you want to be able to embed your reporting into your app, GoodData excels, though the start up process can be involved. If your data structure varies, it could be more challenging to integrate. It may also not be worth the integration if you have people who can already run their own SQL queries.
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Rational BI allows managing data analysis coming from different projects in order to create useful reports and dashboards. I usually set up automatically scheduled reports. All the stakeholders can easily share a rational view with the possibility to filter between the interesting arguments. Sometimes different user profiles could be needed, optimize the view.
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Pros
  • GoodData helps in simplifying complex data into easy-to-understand visuals. We can create personalized dashboards & tailor them as per requirements. This data can be used from an executive level employee to a team lead employee in the business
  • GoodData is a very user friendly platform. The collaborative features simplify sharing and discussing reports among team members which promotes a culture of data-driven decision-making.
  • GoodData connects with various data sources and consolidate information from multiple platforms. This flexibility proves invaluable for businesses dealing with data spread across different systems as they can access large amount of data on a single platform.
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  • Provides high performance embedded analytics
  • Seamless integration to import and export data
  • Rich features for data visualization
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Cons
  • would be nice to be able to add the same filter to a multi-tab dashboard once instead of having to do it for each tab; tedious and time consuming
  • Variable use is kind of clunky and would like to be able to hide/show easier
  • The newer insight based dashboard method does not have the flexibility classic does
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  • Documentation for new users could be better. Sometimes it's hard for my users that are not that skilled in IS/IT to set up data connectors are understand the dynamics of data sources.
  • I have used several other BI solutions as well, and their GUI is okay, but surely there is also room for improvement here. Not all things are made entirely logically.
  • Understanding their price structure. Generally, their website looks nice, but it's not very informative when it comes to pricing, and support options. I really miss some kind of transparency and overview.
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Likelihood to Renew
Each client I have worked with and spoken too has renewed their GoodData subscription. I know of not one to date that has cancelled. The GoodData platform has a very high rate of renewal from the discussions I have had with their internal teams as well
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Usability
GoodData provided us with strong overall usability and provided us a platform for various business analytics. Its user-friendly and insightful reports and also the dashboards. Me and my team really appreciate the platform's ability to streamline decision-making processes. However, there is a learning curve during initial setup as I mentioned before. Continuous improvements in the onboarding could further enhance GoodData's usability as well.
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Rational BI allows managing data analysis coming from different projects. The outputs are one or more reports, that can be delivered automatically to the stakeholders or other communication media inside the organization. Nice dashboards help to describe and analyze data. Sometimes different user profiles could be needed, optimize the view.
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Reliability and Availability
We are approximately one month since go-live. There has been one short outage.
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Performance
Performance on refreshing metrics works well.
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Support Rating
The fast and comprehensive responses we got from GoodData regarding the doubts we had experienced while starting to use the products and metrics were of great help in ensuring the metrics we were obtaining were accurate to what we wanted to know about our customers' experience and our product areas of opportunity.
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I haven't had to use support to date for this product.
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In-Person Training
Petr was a rock star - patient, knowledgeable, clear and easy to work with.
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Online Training
GoodData implementation team was professional and courteous
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Implementation Rating
Thorough, professional and on time.
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Alternatives Considered
GoodData comparing to other platform is very easy to use, customer support and on-boarding support. Set of features, speed of integration in our platform. Also great benefit for us was very competetive pricing.
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Today there are many companies providing BI solutions, and generally, I think Microsoft Power BI is the easiest go-to solution as it is part of the Office365 software. However all software solutions have their limitations, advantages, and disadvantages, but sometimes you don't need the perfect solution. You just need a solution that delivers 80-90 percent of the full potential to reach your goal and in this scope, we were really happy with Rational BI.
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Return on Investment
  • I personally pushed our management to get GoodData implemented, and there on we have been making much more profits than we ever did!
  • Last month we made a decision using the platform and withing a short span of time our ROI gets 7X.
  • We also made a marketing spend of $100,000 every quater using the insights and metrics, and we are really happy with the returs.
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  • Allows folks to work on other items as reporting is done in the background.
  • Scheduling and delivery of reports with one click.
  • Single pane of management.
  • Ease of use.
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ScreenShots

GoodData Screenshots

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Rational BI Screenshots

Screenshot of Modern Business IntelligenceScreenshot of Drag-and-drop InsightsScreenshot of Accessible for everyone, power when you need itScreenshot of Beautiful analytics on every screen and deviceScreenshot of Scheduled reporting: Broadcast your findings to everyoneScreenshot of Connect all your data no matter where it lives