ClicData
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ClicData is the name of a software company focused on data connectivity, management, analysis, machine-learning, visualization, publication and data flow automation.
Their Software as a Service (SaaS) cloud based platform is also named ClicData, internally known as i4, which stands for Infinis 4, the 4th generation of the platform previously named Infinis and later renamed to ClicData i4.
ClicData i4 is an all in one platform that; (i) connects to several data sources and systems, (ii) transforms and merges data, (iii) gives the ability to create dashboards and publish the dashboards via embedded links or directly via mobile devices or browsers.
In addition to their core platform, ClicData also supports and sells an Healthcare Platform Analytics (HPA) in partnership with FTI Consulting and powered by ClicData.[1]. HPA is used by healthcare organizations primarily in the US that apply analytic algorithms in order to facilitate the analysis, management, and strategic planning of labor and facilities for hospitals and hospital groups.
History[edit]
Founded in 2008 by Telmo Silva and initially registered as ClicPharma SARL in Lille, France, the company was focused around data analytics and visualization solely for the pharmaceutical industry, namely working with Merck Serono, Roche and Boehringer Ingelheim at the corporate or global level, and Pfizer and Sigma Tau in France. Additionally, ClicPharma provided design, architecture, development and training for IMS Health (now IQVIA) for one of their most ambitious data platform initiatives named IMS One later renamed Nexxus.
The focus of ClicPharma was to provide process and technical support to marketing, sales and medical teams and along the way developed unique tools to process and analyze a variety of data sets for this highly regulated and complex sector. Overtime, ClicPharma evolved their data engine and in 2010, changed their name to ClicData and launched their on-premise BI software entitled Infinis.
Infinis was the first attempt at creating a limitless workspace where data would be dragged and dropped into it and immediately usable and visualized in a variety of ways. The workspace would allow users to overlap data sets into each other immediately creating links between the data and the application would learn from these links over time to build its knowledge base of data relationships.
The software was built using several types of frameworks and components, from Adobe Flash, Silverlight, JavaScript and HTML to .NET and SQL Server 2008 and later 2012 Database and Analysis Services. The mixed on-premise environments, the late adoption of new browsers by customers and the lack of standards across browsers (prior to HTML 5) made it difficult to advance the product in a rapid fashion.
The promise of Microsoft Silverlight as a browser front end standard tool and its strong visual standardization and capabilities around XAML made it enticing enough to rewrite most of the front end code into a new release called Infinis 2 (i2 for short) in 2011. i2 was still an on-premise software, delivered as an appliance to customers on-site, and with i2, ClicPharma branched out of pharma to other sectors.
The Microsoft Silverlight promise of a cross-browser supported plugin was short lived and soon, as Microsoft support for this technology declined in favour of a more standard web with adoption and promotion of HTML5 in 2012, ClicData re-architectured the entire application not only to use HTML5 front end but also to be a multi-tenant, SaaS platform. It also changed its name to ClicData from ClicPharma since it no longer catered just to the Pharmaceutical sector. The re-engineering process of i3 took 2.5 years to accomplish plus 1M US$ of investment[2] and in 2015, i3 was released in beta. Hosted on OVH servers in France, i3 has many of the same elements of the previous version but the concept of endless or limitless workspace was removed in favour of dashboards, limited to a specific screen size.
Infinis 3 was in beta for 2 years as a free to use BI platform under the tag name "Dashboards Made Easy". By the end of 2017, over 30,000 accounts were registered which enabled the operations and engineering team to improve front and back end code to handle the stress put on database and servers. This knowledge and improvements to many of its components were introduced in the next and final release - ClicData (i4).
ClicData is hosted in Microsoft Azure in 5 data centers around the world. It uses SQL Azure Database with both Columnar and non-Columnar store indexing, Redis and Azure storage for many of its operations. In addition to the front end, completely redone in HTML 5, with LESS and jQuery frameworks, it also includes 3 native mobile application for iPhone, iPad and Android.
Investment[edit]
In 2015, 1M US$ from several private investors[3].
In 2018, ClicData received a 1.5M Euro investment from 3 VC firms in the North of France[4][5] and despite its young age, is now considered a serious competitor to other Data Management and Visualization platforms[6][7]
Automated Self Learning[edit]
ClicData analyzes data and applies self learning algorithms to improve usability of the platform. Working with several industry experts[8] and having French government sponsored research projects to advance Machine Learning algorithms in the area of data analytics. ClicData has contributed to several papers and books[9][10] ranging from Data Visualization to Artificial Intelligence.
Integrations[edit]
A core part of the ClicData platform is the ability to connect to external data, be it files such as spreadsheets and flat files, databases or applications. ClicData is able to connect to more than 50 systems and databases natively, and over 200 using its Web Service generic connector. The list of applications that ClicData can connect to are:
- Basecamp
- Constant Contact
- Facebook Ads
- Freshbooks
- Google Analytics
- Google Sheets
- Google AdWords
- Hubspot
- Infusionsoft
- Jira
- Kochava
- Mothernode CRM
- Netsuite
- Pipedrive
- Quickbooks Online
- Salesforce
- Smartsheets
- SugarCRM
- SurveyMonkey
- Tsheets
- WooCommerce
- XERO
- YouTube Analytics
- Zendesk
Additionally, it can connect to the following on-premise or cloud databases:
- Amazon RedShift
- Cassandra
- Dynamo DB
- Google BigQuery
- Maria DB
- MongoDB
- MySQL
- MS Access
- MS SQL Server
- ODBC
- Oracle
- Percona
- PostgreSQL
Finally, with the generic Web Services connector, most REST and SOAP APIs can be accessed as well.
Locations[edit]
ClicData employees over 20 people in 3 main locations:
- ClicData SAS - Lille, France[11]
- ClicData LLC - Gilbert, Arizona, USA,
- ClicData - Toronto, Canada
Additionally there are 3 exclusive certified representatives as follows:
- GoFirst (Chile) for Latin America and Spain
- SLVD (Australia) for Australia and New Zealand
- SamvadSocial (India) for Middle East/Asia
Use[edit]
ClicData's platform us used in a variety of sectors such as Medical[12], Pharmaceutical, Healthcare, Marketing Agencies, Accounting[13] and Legal firms, Manufacturing, Hospitality and Retail.
Customers use ClicData internally and externally to publish key performance indicators for several areas of their business including finance, production, marketing, sales, CRM and social media analysis.
References[edit]
- ↑ [1], FTI Consulting Partners with ClicData to Support Analytics@Work, May 2, 2018
- ↑ ClicData. "ClicData Raises $1M". www.prnewswire.com. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
- ↑ "Seed Round - ClicData - 2017-01-05". Crunchbase. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
- ↑ "ClicData facilite le reporting des entreprises avec la visualisation graphique". Les Echos (in français). 2018-05-09. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
- ↑ "Cloud Based BI Platform startup ClicData closes $2 million Pre-Series A Round to accelerate growth". Startups News | Tech News. 2018-05-01. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
- ↑ "Embedded Business Intelligence Software Market 2019 To Observe Strong Development by 2019 to 2026|BOARD, MicroStrategy, Dundas BI, IBM, ClicData, Halo". Investor Strategy. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
- ↑ "Top 10 Data Management Platforms | CustomerThink". customerthink.com. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
- ↑ BA (2019-03-31). "AI in Business". Butler Analytics. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
- ↑ Loging, William T. (2016-03-17). Bioinformatics and Computational Biology in Drug Discovery and Development. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521768009. Search this book on
- ↑ Lemelshtrich, Latar Noam (2018-03-09). Robot Journalism: Can Human Journalism Survive?. World Scientific. ISBN 9789813237353. Search this book on
- ↑ "NOUVELLES TECHNOLOGIES - Clic Data impressionne le monde avec ses tableaux de bord plus productifs". La Voix du Nord (in français). Retrieved 2019-04-27.
- ↑ "Quality Dashboard". University of Massachusetts Medical School. 2018-07-26. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
- ↑ "ClicData Reviews: Overview, Pricing and Features". Financesonline.com. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
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