No More SQL! – How Drop-Downs become a Query

Explore Analytics empowers user to understand information through advanced analytics using an intuitive, self-service user-interface.

It does this by allowing non-technical users to generate powerful visualizations using drag-and-drop selections and drop-down choices, rather than needing scripts, code, or database work.

For many who’ve worked with business intelligence tools in the past, this may be a conceptual adjustment. As such, I’m frequently asked the question, “Where do I put the SQL?” In fact, Explore Analytics makes it even easier — allowing you to do a lot of what you did before in SQL using an intuitive graphical interface.

To show you what I mean, we’ll walk through an example that shows how we build queries easily, and how you can shift away from writing code to getting information.

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