As part of our continued effort to make RJMetrics the most user-friendly BI platform in the world, we have introduced yet another time-saving feature. When providing explicit restrictions in “Step 4″ of the RJMetrics Chart Wizard, users will now find a predictive text dropdown menu. This menu provides potential values based on your input so far. As shown above and below, the menu also shows the [...]
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Get a Free RJMetrics Demo Account
July 30, 2009 – 10:16 am
RJMetrics has just made it even easier for prospective customers to experience the RJMetrics Dashboard. We are now offering free, automatically-generated demo accounts via our website, RJMetrics.com. You can find the demo login request form on just about every page: The demo login provides access to a fully-functioning version of our web-based software (using the fictional data [...]
RJMetrics Feature Spotlight: Advanced Data Exports
July 27, 2009 – 8:42 am
The RJMetrics business dashboard is so comprehensive that we hate to think of our customers using any other application for analysis. However, we understand that occasionally, for one reason or another, everyone needs to plop some raw data into Excel or another external app. As such, we’ve significantly expanded our “Export Data” functionality to include CSV [...]
RJMetrics Feature Spotlight: Clone Charts
July 20, 2009 – 7:34 am
There are more than a few reasons why our analytics dashboards are a cut above the rest. Here’s one: efficiency and usability are two of our most important principles. As such, it’s those little things that save a few seconds every time they’re used that make us the proudest. One example is our a “Clone Chart” feature that allows you to quickly create new charts [...]
RJMetrics Feature Spotlight: Growth Perspectives
July 9, 2009 – 7:42 am
RJMetrics’s Growth Perspectives are a powerful tool for easily comparing the value of a particular trend from one period of time to another. These perspectives work within all of the existing RJMetrics time constructs, including hours, days, weeks, months, quarters, and years. There are two main ways of viewing growth over time: period-over-period (shown as “Change vs. Previous Period”) and year-over-year (shown as “Change vs [...]
RJMetrics Feature Spotlight: Ranking
July 6, 2009 – 9:27 am
The RJMetrics “ranking” feature allows you to quickly and easily determine which items in a given category are most popular. For example, you can check which products, item categories, vendors, or even sales channels rank highest for a given time period or within a given subcategory. Today, we’ll be showing you how this works with [...]
Who Plays MMOs: An Analysis of MMORPG Player Demographics and MMORPG Player Stereotypes
June 24, 2009 – 8:00 am
Left: Guy from South Park’s WoW Episode; Right: Mr. T. in WoW commercial [Follow our blog posts, obsession with data, and original articles on Twitter @RJMetrics] If you have played an MMORPG before and have chosen to tell a non-MMORPG player about playing said MMO, there is a good chance that the person you [...]
The Stanley Cup (Advertising) Finals
June 12, 2009 – 7:29 am
Background I love hockey and like most hockey fans, I’ve been actively following the NHL playoffs, including the Stanley Cup finals that started at the end of May. While watching the finals, I couldn’t help but notice some of the advertisements that played during the intermissions and the three commercial breaks each period. I sat [...]
Meet the Interns, Part 2
June 5, 2009 – 6:20 am
Hello to the readers of The Metric System blog. I am Cheryl Ryan, one of the interns at RJMetrics. I, like Mario, am a senior at Wharton, though I am concentrating in Marketing, Managing Electronic Commerce, and Operations and Information Management (OPIM) -Information Systems track, the last of which I don’t normally tell people because [...]
