Clear Analytics

We DiscountReactor use Clear Analytics BI tool frequently. It is an Excel-based self-service BI solution with intuitive dashboard and reporting tools that require only fundamental Excel expertise. After aggregating your data, the possibility to use numerous Microsoft Power BI capabilities to analyze, filter, model, and visualize it is quite useful. In addition, you may utilize unique Power BI features, like Power Pivot and Power Map, and share your results via mobile devices. Other business intelligence tools do far better when it comes to more complex applications outside of Excel.

At our company, we use Clear Analytics for our business intelligence needs. We have been using this software for almost one and a half years, and I can say that we couldn’t have gotten better software.

The tool gathers data from various internal systems and puts it all together using cloud accounting mechanisms.

Pros:

It is CRM enabled, which lets us control all our operations.

It allows us to directly drag and drop the data into our excel databases which is pretty useful. 

The cleaning and modeling of datasets use Power Pivot and Power Query, which gives it excellent efficiency.

It's designed to work smoothly with Microsoft Power BI, which is another addition to the ease of usage arsenal.

Cons:

It is a bit too reliant on Microsoft Excel.

The backbone of their software is spreadsheets which are somewhat not sustainable for the future.

Another issue with the excel dependency is that it restricts the software only to the Windows operating system.

You can’t access this software through a mobile device as there are no apps released yet.

It only comes in the English language, which might create problems for some users.