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7 Must-Have Revenue Intelligence Dashboards

7 Must-Have Revenue Intelligence Dashboards

If you're just starting out with tracking your revenue data, these are the 7 must-have dashboards that you should start with. Learn why they're important and what to include. ...

How to Set Up Your Revenue Data Stack

How to Set Up Your Revenue Data Stack

Need revenue metrics reporting, but don't know where to start? This guide contains everything you need to know to set up your revenue data stack. ...

6 Reasons Why Salesforce Analytics Isn't Enough

6 Reasons Why Salesforce Analytics Isn't Enough

Learn why Salesforce & CRM analytics isn't sufficient for replacing your internal BI platform. ...

Top 10 Metrics for Revenue Operations Teams

Top 10 Metrics for Revenue Operations Teams

Discover the top 10 essential metrics that revenue operations teams need to track for success....

How to Package Your Investor Data Room

How to Package Your Investor Data Room

All startups looking to raise funds should have an Investor Data Room in place, which should include live finance metrics. Learn what it is, why you need it, and how to package it. ...

Why & How to Calculate MRR

Why & How to Calculate MRR

Everything you need to know about this important metric for SaaS companies. Learn what MRR is, why it's important, and how to calculate it. ...

How To Communicate Your Data

How To Communicate Your Data

Learn how our customers have effectively communicated and distributed data out to the rest of the business. Try out these ideas today! ...

Our Customers’ Top Use Cases

Our Customers’ Top Use Cases

We gathered valuable feedback during our QBRs on how our customers use Whaly. Here are the top use cases to give you some inspiration....

Keboola & Whaly: Getting You From Raw Data to Insights Faster

Keboola & Whaly: Getting You From Raw Data to Insights Faster

We're thrilled to announce a new partnership with Keboola! Read about how together, we can help you get from raw data to insights faster. ...

Why Headless BI Tools Fall Short

Why Headless BI Tools Fall Short

Headless BI, explained. Learn why you should consider a BI platform that includes a built-in semantic layer rather than a Headless model. ...

How AI Can Enhance The Impact of Data Analytics

How AI Can Enhance The Impact of Data Analytics

Learn how AI can be combined with human expertise in data analytics to deliver greater impact and value. ...

Unlocking Success Through Self-Service Analytics

Unlocking Success Through Self-Service Analytics

Learn how data leaders at Hudl and Fluid Truck approach self-service at their organizations, and the tips & tricks for boosting data adoption. ...

What's the Big Deal about the Semantic Layer?

What's the Big Deal about the Semantic Layer?

Hearing buzz about the semantic layer everywhere, but not sure what it really is or why it's important? This article has got you covered. ...

How early-stage startups can get value from data, fast

How early-stage startups can get value from data, fast

Whaly hosted a webinar on How early-stage startups can get value from data, fast, with insights from Leila Veerasamy, Chief of Staff at CrushON. Read her interview here! ...

Getting Started with BI is Simpler Than You Think - Part 2

Getting Started with BI is Simpler Than You Think - Part 2

Part 2 of the blog interview with Connor Jennett, BI Expert, on a simple approach to starting your BI project. ...

Getting Started with BI is Simpler Than You Think - Part 1

Getting Started with BI is Simpler Than You Think - Part 1

An interview with Connor Jennett, BI expert, on getting started with your first BI project, and why it doesn't have to be so daunting. ...

How to Roll Out a Data Culture from Scratch

How to Roll Out a Data Culture from Scratch

Whaly hosted a webinar on How to Roll out a Data from Scratch in mid-February, with insights from Alban at Fabriq. Learn the takeaways and the action plan here. ...

Data Challenges for Sales Managers & How to Overcome Them

Data Challenges for Sales Managers & How to Overcome Them

An interview with Patrick Wojcik, BDR Team Lead at Aircall - a Whaly partner ...

3 Reasons to Invest in a Proper BI Platform

3 Reasons to Invest in a Proper BI Platform

Still using Excel spreadsheets for data analysis? Here's why it's time to graduate from spreadsheets and invest in your first proper BI platform. ...

Must-Track Metrics for Startup Success

Must-Track Metrics for Startup Success

Metrics that matter to startups. If your company is just starting out on its data journey, read this guide to understand which metrics to track and why. ...

Power BI vs. Whaly

Power BI vs. Whaly

Whaly's self-service BI platform is an alternative to Power BI. Here's what we've gathered around the pros and cons of both, to help you evaluate the BI tools on the market....

How a data stack can save costs for your company

How a data stack can save costs for your company

With economic uncertainty in 2023, here's how investing in a modern data stack can help your company reduce costs and make the right decisions. ...

Evolve your Modern Data Stack for Impact

Evolve your Modern Data Stack for Impact

How a focus on BI and DI can unlock greater business value...

Why your CRM shouldn't compete with your data warehouse

Why your CRM shouldn't compete with your data warehouse

Your CRM and your data warehouse serve separate purposes. Here's a way to ensure alignment across both, and better collaboration between data teams and Rev Ops teams. ...

What does self-service mean in BI?

What does self-service mean in BI?

A detailed explanation on what self-service means in the context of BI...

Metabase vs. Whaly

Metabase vs. Whaly

Whaly's self-service BI platform is an alternative to Metabase. Here's what we've gathered around the pros and cons of both, to help you evaluate the BI tools on the market....

The dbt cloud x Whaly Integration Is Here

The dbt cloud x Whaly Integration Is Here

We're excited to announce our native integration with dbt! Learn why we built it, and why we think it's a game-changer. ...

5 Best Practices for Data Governance

5 Best Practices for Data Governance

Our top actionable advice for ensuring strong data governance at your company. ...

Spotlight on Data Analytics Leadership with Lucas Smith

Spotlight on Data Analytics Leadership with Lucas Smith

Lucas Smith is a Senior Data Analytics Manager at Hudl, a sports tech company. He gives a great introduction to Hudl below. I really enjoyed our conversation about his objectives, team structure and collaboration, dashboards, governance vs. self-serv...

Looker vs. Whaly

Looker vs. Whaly

Whaly's self-service BI platform is an alternative to Looker. Here's what we've gathered around the pros and cons of both, to help you evaluate the BI tools on the market....

Spotlight on Revenue Operations: connecting data to business outcomes

Spotlight on Revenue Operations: connecting data to business outcomes

A glimpse into how the Revenue Operations role leverages data, from the perspective of Manuel Passanha, Revenue Operations Manager at Unbabel. ...

How to Deliver Data Experiences with a Data Mesh Mindset

How to Deliver Data Experiences with a Data Mesh Mindset

Adopting a data mesh mindset is the first step to a data-driven organization. What next? Learn how to deliver data experiences to your domain....

Top 7 BI Tools

Top 7 BI Tools

Why BI is important, what makes a good BI tool, and our list of the top 7 on the market....

How to choose the right data warehouse

How to choose the right data warehouse

The key considerations and criteria when choosing a happy home for your data. Getting a cloud-based data warehouse is a crucial step in setting up your stack. ...

Data mesh vs. data monolith: which structure is for you?

Data mesh vs. data monolith: which structure is for you?

As your company begins to adopt a data-driven culture, your organizational set-up matters. ...

The Startup Data Dilemma

The Startup Data Dilemma

Startups need data to grow, but in order to get data, they need to already be growing. How can startups overcome this to find a scalable way to make data-driven decisions? ...

How should you set up your BI data stack?

How should you set up your BI data stack?

How to clean up your fragmented data set-up and put together your data stack. We'll walk you through the technical and functional components. ...

We raised $1.9m seed to transform business intelligence

We raised $1.9m seed to transform business intelligence

The Whaly team is proud to announce that we just raised a $1.9m seed led by Red Alpine. We are on a mission to transform the way we do business intelligence and make it easier to manage, easier to understand and cheaper to run....

5 no code business intelligence platforms you need to try in 2022

5 no code business intelligence platforms you need to try in 2022

There is no doubt that no code is the future. A lot of industries have been disrupted with a no code approach allowing tons of non technical people to finally be able to set up and maintain the tools they needed to create and scale a business. This r...

How to create your inbound growth stack

How to create your inbound growth stack

So you are doing growth marketing and you are in charge of designing and implementing your acquisition stack, this article is made for you. Please note that this article will cover only the inbound [https://www.hubspot.com/inbound-marketing] part of ...

A year on Hacker News

A year on Hacker News

In this blog article we go through a thorough analysis on user behavior on Hacker News and we try to understand what how hacker news is being used in 2021....

The role of the Head of Growth and how to set up a data-driven culture

The role of the Head of Growth and how to set up a data-driven culture

Different data champions arise from teams that are close to data and want to make it an everyday team sport. A couple of months ago, we met with Hugo, Head of Growth at Klox. He was asking a lot of very interesting questions like what data tools shou...

Why No-Code is the Future of Business Intelligence

Why No-Code is the Future of Business Intelligence

Business intelligence has been here for ages, becoming more and more advanced. Today most data folks learn to code to be proficient in their work. Generally a mix of Python and SQL to structure a set of data tools and make them work together 🙀. All ...

How to become data-driven? Disclaimer: it is not related to internal tooling

How to become data-driven? Disclaimer: it is not related to internal tooling

A lot of companies are wondering how to “become data-driven”? You often think that by buying some advanced platform you might reach this unmeasurable state. Unfortunately, you don’t become good at selling by buying Salesforce nor do you become fit ...

How to choose a business intelligence solution ?

How to choose a business intelligence solution ?

Data is at the heart of every digital companies nowadays. Facebook, Airbnb, Netflix, Amazon Google are using it every day to keep a head up on their competition and make better decisions based on real time data and facts rather than opinions. Nowada...

Data is a multi player game

Data is a multi player game

With my 2 Co-Founders, we always several filled organizational gaps. As a "jack of all trade" or "swiss army knife" consultants during our enterprise life or later as product managers in an early-stage startup. This means we had to cover a wide spec...

Analyzing sales performance

Analyzing sales performance

A year ago, we did a lot of user research on Sales Operations and met a lot of exceptional people 😻 As Sales Ops, they taught us their organization is expecting them to: * Make the sales process more productive and efficient 🚀 * Understand what...

8 key things to consider when choosing your ETL

8 key things to consider when choosing your ETL

Most of your internal data is trapped into your SaaS tools, making it impossible to query or combine it. You need a specific "Data extractor" tool that can get your data from your favorite tools and put it into one place (generally a database). Thos...