Explore Analytics

By exploreanalytics.com

What's Explore Analytics about?

Explore Analytics makes data analysis and visualization fun by providing useful tips and advanced techniques through a series of how-to videos.

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Explore Analytics episodes:

03.21.2019
Explore Analytics Training Module 5 - Chart Views
In the fifth of our training modules, we're going to introduce you chart views. You'll learn the key concepts within creating charts, and walk through creating your first category and timeline charts.
03.21.2019
Explore Analytics Training Module 4 - Pivot Views
In the fourth of our training modules, we're going to introduce you to pivot views. You'll learn the key components in creating pivot views, including calculations, coloring rules, and filtering data.
03.21.2019
Explore Analytics Training Module 3 - List Views
In the third of our training modules, we're going to introduce you to list views. You'll learn the key components in a list, including filtering, calculations, coloring rules, and more.
03.21.2019
Explore Analytics Training Module 2 - User Interface
In the second of our training modules, we're going to show you how to navigate within Explore Analytics. Where are the most common actions found, and how can you quickly access the information you need? All of these questions will...
03.21.2019
Explore Analytics Training Module 1 - Key Concepts
In the first of our training modules, we're going to introduce you to some key concepts of Explore Analytics. What is Explore Analytics, what can you use it for, and what are some of the key features you'll be using?...
03.13.2019
ServiceNow Delta Reporting
Want to track the delta between records created and records resolved - for example, an incident delta report? In this quick video, we'll walk through this foundational ITSM report step-by-step, so you can easily replicate this report in just a few...
02.22.2019
ServiceNow Wallboard Displays with Explore Analytics
Want to display key information to your team around the office? Learn how in just a few clicks, you can present an auto-rotating dashboard of information to display around the office, including some best practices on content and some ideas...
02.22.2019
ServiceNow Human Resources Delivery with Explore Analytics
The key to quality in Human Resources service delivery is to quickly and efficiently direct your team's efforts to answering questions and resolving cases as they come in, and to identify process roadblocks and opportunities for improvement. In this webinar, see...
01.10.2019
Automate CMDB Accuracy through Accountability
A detailed and accurate CMDB is the bedrock for your IT Service Management processes. Did you know that dashboards can be a key part of keeping your CMDB reliable and useful? Discovery tools can automate gathering technical information from machines, but too...
11.01.2018
Proactive Security Incident Response through Real-Time Dashboard
Driving quick and effective resolution of security incidents and risks is key to maintaining secure infrastructure. We'll show how to build real-time dashboards that focus your teams on the most urgent issues. Don't settle for limited dashboards or weekly manual spreadsheets -...
08.14.2018
ServiceNow Year-over-Year Reporting
Year-over-Year reports allow you to compare process performance this year against previous years. With Explore Analytics, you can create year-over-year reports with just a couple clicks.
07.31.2018
Webinar - Make Executive Dashboards that Shine
Excellent dashboards do not only impress, they accelerate the decision-making process and tell a compelling story. They are the face of your organization to your management. In just a few minutes, you can transform your dashboard and get to the...
07.11.2018
ServiceNow Project and Portfolio Management Analytical App
This video will introduce Explore Analytics' prebuilt Analytical application. The application includes pre-built reports to give real-time and trend visibility on project costing, resource management, status compared to baselines, and much more.
04.13.2018
ServiceNow SLA Reporting Topic: Median, Percentile, TP 50/90/99
This video explains when and why to use medians and percentiles to measure service delivery data, and walks through building those reports against ServiceNow data in real-time.
02.07.2018
ServiceNow Earned Value Management Reporting
Want an accurate, real-time indication of how your projects are performing ahead or behind tasks? Earned Value Management is a common framework for tracking projects over time, adjusting for their scope, time, and cost.
01.12.2018
Setting up and Connecting to ServiceNow in 10 Minutes or Less
Interested in getting the most complete reporting solution for ServiceNow? This video will walk you end-to-end from requesting an Explore Analytics evaluation environment to having real-time reports embedded in your ServiceNow dashboard in just a few minutes!
01.12.2018
User Utilization Reports for ServiceNow Administrators
Looking to understand how your ServiceNow licensing is being consumed? Want to present reports back to the business about how they are utilizing ServiceNow? Learn how Explore Analytics can provide you the most completely utilization reports for ServiceNow.
10.03.2017
Mapping Data on New York City Maps with Explore Analytics
Explore Analytics can easily generate real-time or trended geographic (map) charts based on your data! In this video, we'll show you how you can use custom maps, using New York City as an example.
09.25.2017
Mapping Data on Canadian Maps with Explore Analytics
Explore Analytics can easily generate real-time or trended geographic (map) charts based on your data! In this video, we'll show you how you can use custom maps, using Canadian Provinces as an example.
09.16.2017
ServiceNow Advanced Reporting with Explore Analytics
Take 15 minutes to learn about the most complete reporting solution available for ServiceNow. Real-time operational dashboards, ad-hoc explorational reports, standardized performance metrics, and a library of pre-built reports -- Explore Analytics gives you everything you need to report against ServiceNow...
08.22.2017
Explore Analytics Dashboards and Slicers
In this training video, we'll walk through how you can assemble a dashboard of Explore Analytics views, with interactive slicers to allow viewers to filter through the data.
08.21.2017
ServiceNow Timecard Reporting with Explore Analytics
Do you manage your organization's time through time cards, or time worked records? Take a look at this rich example report for getting real-time, interactive visibility that can live on ServiceNow dashboards or in other portals. Take action on the...
06.15.2017
Creating Event-Based Calendars
Learn how you can create real-time interactive calendars based on ServiceNow, SQL databases, or other applications with just a few clicks. Publish those calendars to dashboards or intranet portals, and give users the ability to easily view their data over...
02.13.2017
Webinar - Forecasting the Year Ahead with Predictive Analytics
Learn how Explore Analytics can project into the future based on your data set, and how to do predictive analytics smartly - not just drawing a straight line, but using sophisticated approaches to fine-tune your forecast.
02.13.2017
Managing KPIs against Performance Targets part 1
In this video, we show you how to take advantage of Explore Analytics' actionable, interactive visualizations to support continual service improvements. We show you some useful methods for highlighting performance targets, to drive the behavior of your users towards improved outcomes.
01.03.2017
Reporting on Potential Exposure from Unlicensed Software
Unlicensed software can be one of the biggest financial risks a company can be exposed to. If you have set up a software asset management solution, you may be gathering the raw data on unlicensed software. Explore Analytics can help...
12.06.2016
Trends and Forecasts using Explore Analytics
If you have a set of time-series data, Explore Analytics can allow you to very easily see the underlying trends, and use them to forecast into the future. You're just a few clicks away!
11.28.2016
% of Tasks Report
Are you wondering what % of your change requests are emergency changes? What % of your incidents are P1? What % of your SLAs are breached? We'll walk through how you can create this live, interactive report in a few...
11.25.2016
Business Service Reporting
Learn how, with a few easy clicks, you can convert your reporting into true business service reporting. Rather than tracking incident, problem, or change KPI's and metrics at the CI level, roll your information up to up-stream business services.
11.25.2016
Cumulative Flow Diagrams and Release Dashboard for ServiceNow
Follow this eight-minute video to create an interactive, automated, actionable status dashboard for stakeholders to track your development progress in ServiceNow.
11.25.2016
Webinar: Give Executives the Business Visibility They Need
Executive management needs information to make sound decisions and to lead their organization, yet most managers lack access to such information. Having the information is only the beginning; it's vital that the information will be presented in a way that...
11.25.2016
Webinar: Real Time Decision Making
Get insights that move as fast as you do! In order for your organization to be agile, you need to have the ability to understand and respond to changes in your environment in real time. Live, actionable analytics provides the...
11.25.2016
Webinar: Aligning your Reports to Business Priorities
In an increasingly competitive business environment, the business wants to measure how your department is performing to support their priorities. Get ahead of your business -- look at your processes the same way executives, stakeholders, and customers do! Learn how...
11.25.2016
Webinar: Business Service Reporting
Are you implementing a CMDB and defining business services, only to find that it's impossible to report on incidents, outages and changes by business service? Come learn about breakthrough functionality in Explore Analytics that understands the hierarchical CMDB and can...
11.03.2016
Explainer
Explains Explore Analytics, how it works and how it's different than other business intelligence solutions
10.29.2015
Combining Data with Mash-up Views
Often the biggest challenge in reporting is combining data from multiple tables or data sources. Learn how Explore Analytics can make this easy for *any user* using an intuitive drag and drop interface, without requiring coding, scripting, or administrative intervention.
10.15.2015
Explore Analytics Webinar: Retire Excel! There's a better way to
Close your Excel window now! There's a better way to run that report! Using Explore Analytics' advanced features you can get better reporting, live against your ServiceNow data and embedded in ServiceNow dashboards. Learn how to use calculations, multi-level pivots,...
06.17.2015
Backlog Reporting for ServiceNow
Learn how to create backlog reports for ServiceNow in an easy, intuitive way.
05.20.2015
Resource Reports for ServiceNow
Learn how to create a resource report for ServiceNow that compares planned resource hours to actual time spent working.
05.13.2015
Application for ServiceNow ITFM
Explore Analytics has released a new IT Financial Management analytical application to work alongside ServiceNow. Leveraging the single system of record of ServiceNow, Explore Analytics provides a depth of information and reporting to give you more visibility and transparency to...
04.30.2015
Application for ServiceNow ITSM
Explore Analytics has created a pre-defined analytical application for IT Service Management. In minutes you can have our best-in-breed reporting engine answering key questions across your service management lifecycle, drawing on the data within the ServiceNow platform.
04.02.2015
Scorecard Views for ServiceNow
Learn how to create simple, powerful live or trended visualizations of data, showing powerful key metrics in a quick single view.
09.09.2014
Exploring your Data
Learn how Explore Analytics can help you simply slice-and-dice your data to get insights and understanding -- as easy as asking the question.
09.08.2014
Unleashing your Data
Learn how you can easily access your data with a modern business intelligence tool without requiring complex data warehousing or integration efforts.
08.26.2014
Four Minutes to Explore - Visualizing your Google Spreadsheets
Using Explore Analytics, the SaaS self-service visualization application, we're going to show you how you can quickly turn flat data into rich, informative visualizations in just a few minutes.
04.23.2014
ServiceNow Dashboards using Explore Analytics
In this short tutorial we'll learn how to create dashboards in ServiceNow using Explore Analytics.
01.22.2014
Reporting on ServiceNow Variables
In this short tutorial we'll see how to report on ServiceNow variables using Explore Analytics.
12.06.2013
ServiceNow Advanced Reporting Topics
In this tutorial we'll cover two topics. We'll see how to create trend reports by gathering historical data and we'll see how to implement contextual security using Explore Analytics.
11.20.2013
Salesforce.com Data Visualization using Explore Analytics
In this tutorial I'll show you how to connect to your Salesforce.com application so that you can immediately start slicing and dicing your data and visualize it using Explore Analytics.
11.19.2013
PostgreSQL Reporting and Visualization using Explore Analytics
In this tutorial I'll show you how to connect to your Postgres database so that you can immediately start slicing and dicing your data and visualize it using Explore Analytics.

What's Explore Analytics about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Explore Analytics episodes:

Explore Analytics Training Module 5 - Chart Views

Explore Analytics Training Module 4 - Pivot Views

Explore Analytics Training Module 3 - List Views

Explore Analytics Training Module 2 - User Interface

Explore Analytics Training Module 1 - Key Concepts

ServiceNow Delta Reporting

ServiceNow Wallboard Displays with Explore Analytics

ServiceNow Human Resources Delivery with Explore Analytics

Automate CMDB Accuracy through Accountability

Proactive Security Incident Response through Real-Time Dashboard

ServiceNow Year-over-Year Reporting

Webinar - Make Executive Dashboards that Shine

ServiceNow Project and Portfolio Management Analytical App

ServiceNow SLA Reporting Topic: Median, Percentile, TP 50/90/99

ServiceNow Earned Value Management Reporting

Setting up and Connecting to ServiceNow in 10 Minutes or Less

User Utilization Reports for ServiceNow Administrators

Mapping Data on New York City Maps with Explore Analytics

Mapping Data on Canadian Maps with Explore Analytics

ServiceNow Advanced Reporting with Explore Analytics

Explore Analytics Dashboards and Slicers

ServiceNow Timecard Reporting with Explore Analytics

Creating Event-Based Calendars

Webinar - Forecasting the Year Ahead with Predictive Analytics

Managing KPIs against Performance Targets part 1

Reporting on Potential Exposure from Unlicensed Software

Trends and Forecasts using Explore Analytics

% of Tasks Report

Business Service Reporting

Cumulative Flow Diagrams and Release Dashboard for ServiceNow

Webinar: Give Executives the Business Visibility They Need

Webinar: Real Time Decision Making

Webinar: Aligning your Reports to Business Priorities

Webinar: Business Service Reporting

Explainer

Combining Data with Mash-up Views

Explore Analytics Webinar: Retire Excel! There's a better way to

Backlog Reporting for ServiceNow

Resource Reports for ServiceNow

Application for ServiceNow ITFM

Application for ServiceNow ITSM

Scorecard Views for ServiceNow

Exploring your Data

Unleashing your Data

Four Minutes to Explore - Visualizing your Google Spreadsheets

ServiceNow Dashboards using Explore Analytics

Reporting on ServiceNow Variables

ServiceNow Advanced Reporting Topics

Salesforce.com Data Visualization using Explore Analytics

PostgreSQL Reporting and Visualization using Explore Analytics