Holistics Blog: Product Updates

As startups and tech-enabled companies, often times we are sitting upon invaluable data for making decisions, be it for conversion, retention or business growth. This becomes especially important when working with customers and partners, who are now expecting more in terms of information, insights and access to data.[1]

Sharing data with customers can be a tricky business, especially in terms of security. How do you ensure a customer does not gain access to another customer’s data? How do you...

It’s just been slightly over a week since our last release, and already we’ve launched the next one! In Holistics release (v1.30), we gave you Metric Sheets, which we believe to be a strong differentiating feature for our customers that showcases our strengths in handling tabular data. A big note of thanks to our fans and customers who’ve been telling us how much they value our product, this recent change was a huge one in terms of code for the product engineering team, and it’s feedback like...

In our new Holistics release (v1.29), we finally unveiled a popularly requested feature: Geo Heatmaps! Our engineering team has been working hard on this behind the scenes for a while now, so we’re really excited to share this with you, as part of creating a great Holistics software user experience!

Combining the power of SQL with being able to answer...

As you progress in your business, it’s becoming more and more difficult to keep track of the small or big events that happened, things like:

• The first launch of iOS app
• A big release with an awesome feature
• Your business getting featured on the media
• Running a big marketing campaign
• …

That’s why today, we’re excited to share a new awesome feature: Annotations! Annotations help you keep track of what has happened on a timeline, or directly on your chart.

Watch a short demo video of the feature...

In our last release (v1.22), we’ve supported the ability for you to freeze your table header. This is of the many minor enhancements our engineers make under the hood to improve our overall software user experience!

What this means for you

This is especially helpful for data analysts and product teams who need to browse through massive volumes of...

As engineers we refactor and abstract our code regularly, this is part of process to improve our code quality and scale up our codebase. In my previous job, we refactor our code religiously - “Leave the codebase a better place than you found it” so we said, that was the main reason to help us build big, complex system with just a handful of engineers!

When we started Holistics, we naturally asked - how can we enable the same refactoring approach for data/SQL analysts?

Writing Reusable...