Today I saw a company that was so beautiful I almost cried. Domo has come out of the shadows to unveil a $2B business with a product suite both complete and comprehensive. Check out the videos, testimonials, and examples on their website (www.domo.com).

What I truly love about this company, as well as others in the data analytics industry, is that they are taking some of the most complex problems and boiling them down so that anyone can harness the power behind data. Taking Domo as an example, they are able to give insights in areas that people did not realize were possible. For SAB Miller they were able to aggregate all of the brands and show the C-suite executives exactly what the whole company was experiencing. The ease of setting up graphs and charts to show a company goes along with my belief in the power of infographics. If everyone could be given the power to create a story using data, the world will become a better place much faster.

Another great company that I was exposed to recently is Quid. This company aggregates, filters, and assembles giant webs showing all of the links between different publications. My friend who is a patent analyst uses it to see every single patent for a company and map out the exact positioning of the portfolio. Reading 7000 patents for a company would be impossible, but Quid allows you to do it almost instantaneous while producing a visualized model to easily understand all the information. The platform also works with news aggregation. It’s beautiful.

Looking at the way that each of these companies builds data products is inspirational. Taking their ideas and thinking about how to use them in analogous ways could lead to equally if not more extraordinary products. See my post about innovative thinking: ideation for how to use these companies as a valuable resource.

Some other great companies:

Palantir

Tableau

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