What is Platfora and what is it used for?
Platfora makes Hadoop amazing. End users gain the power of data with in-memory BI. No ETL or datastore required. Note: Platfora was acquired by Workday in 2016 and is now part of Workday Prism Analytics.
With Workday Prism Analytics, you can bring data to scale from any source and securely prepare, analyze and share it with your organization. The result? You get all the knowledge you need to generate better business results.
Produce and share business information with anyone in your organization.
Use Workday security permissions on any data to control who sees what.
Visualize financial and people analysis contextually and act on your applications.
Generate ideas quickly with a drag-and-drop interface.
Collaborate on discovery dashboards for faster iterations.
Publish and share visualizations as Workday reports.
Bring all the data you need to enrich your finances and HR analytics. Workday provides cloud data management so you can store, process, and protect any information.
Governing data in Workday Prism Analytics is easy. Our unique security model allows you to centrally manage permissions and change who can access specific data.