ThoughtSpot and BITanium bring search-driven analytics to South Africa


Palo Alto, Calif. and Pretoria, 29 Feb 2016

BITanium, experts in extracting actionable insights from data, today announced it is partnering with ThoughtSpot, the leader in search-driven analytics, to make data analyses easier and more accessible for every business person in South Africa.

Leading global 1 000 brands in top industries across retail, financial services, telecom and healthcare are turning to ThoughtSpot's easy-to-use search interface to make it possible for every employee to quickly analyse their company data. Anyone can use ThoughtSpot with zero training to ask questions and build reports and dashboards - all in seconds.

"As we've engaged with ThoughtSpot, we have seen massive interest in their new breed of search-driven analytics", says Chris O'Connell, Managing Director of BITanium. "There's huge unmet demand for information from data-hungry business users, which is clearly not being satisfied by legacy BI solutions. We see a tremendous opportunity through our ThoughtSpot partnership to bring instant answers to business professionals at our customers in every role and department."

In the past 12 months, ThoughtSpot has experienced rapid growth in customer acquisition, product development, and market penetration, and reported 810% increase in sales year-over-year read the news>.

ThoughtSpot also recently launchedThoughtSpot 3, the latest release of its award-winning product, and introduced 200+ new features across search, analytics and visualisation. Three of the top features to help non-technical business people get faster insights, include:

* DataRank: a ranking algorithm that sorts and presents data recommendations as-you-type, guiding users to the right data based on data properties and the collective intelligence in a company.
* AutoJoins:Automatically graphs data sources and joins tables in real-time to calculate answers across previously siloed databases.
* PopCharts: As-you-type in ThoughtSpot's search box, answers are calculated on-the-fly and charts are presented instantly. PopCharts chooses from over a dozen new chart types and automatically presents the best one for the search.

"Demand for ThoughtSpot has been growing rapidly across the globe. We recently expanded into Europe, and with BITanium's local knowledge and deep experience in the South African market, we couldn't be more excited to bring search-driven analytics to South Africa", said Ajeet Singh, CEO of ThoughtSpot.

BITanium will be representing ThoughtSpot at the ITWeb BI Summit on the 1-2 March 2016. To set up a meeting please contact it on info@bitanium.co.za. BITanium will be exhibiting at booth 3, where a demo of ThoughtSpot is available.

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BITanium

BITanium is fanatical about extracting insight from data to make a significant financial impact to business. Its objective is to assist organisations in achieving a culture that focuses on the importance of data, together with ensuring the most appropriate people, processes and technologies are in place. For more information, please visit www.bitanium.co.za

ThoughtSpot

ThoughtSpot is disrupting the BI industry with search-driven analytics built for the enterprise. Anyone can use ThoughtSpot with zero training to ask questions, analyse company data, and build reports and dashboards - all in seconds.

ThoughtSpot combines data from on-premises, desktop and cloud sources, scales to billions of rows, and deploys in hours. The days of waiting for reports and dashboards are over. The company's founding team has previously built market-defining search and analytics technologies at Google, Amazon, Oracle and Microsoft. For more information please visit thoughtspot.com. Follow it on Twitter at @thoughtspot and LinkedIn at linkedin.com/company/thoughtspot

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Nadine Shenker
BITanium
nadines@bitanium.co.za