If you aren’t ready to totally give up your Excel spreadsheet to manage your business-critical metrics, then BI vendor MicroStrategy has an interesting solution for you called Cloud Personal. Announced today as a free public beta, you can upload data to their cloud repository analyze it, and share insights with your colleagues.
You can watch a quick demo below.
Cloud Personal makes it easy to spot trends, identify outliers, and uncover insights that lay buried in a range of sources, from your own Excel data to public databases such as Data.gov. Users can also share their dashboards via email, or publish them to an unlimited audience via Facebook, Twitter, blogs, and more. The site link above has a gallery of public visualizations and you are welcome to share you own there as well. Beginning next month, you can win a fancy Nespresso coffee machine for the best one posted.
