Testimonials

"Lyza is laying claim to the gap between Excel capabilities and data integration - the lair of the true business analyst. With its quasi-EII capabilities to understand source data from its metadata and by looking at actual data values to determine relationships, Lyza fits the unstructured nature of the analyst's work in a modern, heterogeneous corporate information environment."
William McKnight, Partner, Information Management, Lucidity Consulting Group

"There is a significant market for people who want to do complex analysis. Tools like Lyza fit well with these 'orphaned' users. In companies with a data warehouse, many analysts are frustrated by the limitations of the standardized BI stack because the tools don't work the way analysts work."
Mark Madsen, President, Third Nature

"I could immediately load the data set and easily manipulate it using Lyza. I was highly impressed with how easily Lyza combined master lists and enabled me to perform complex sorts."
Eric Lieser, Project Leader, National Association of Home Builders Research Center

"I recently received a write out of a log that monitors the size of every file system in the client's environment. Although it was only 40MB, it contained nearly 400,000 rows. I was able to quickly and easily drag the log into the Lyza desktop and was immediately able to view, scroll and browse the file, as well as perform the necessary data analysis required for the proposal-all in a matter of minutes. And if the client wants me to analyze another month's worth of data, I can simply drop it into my workflow that I built in Lyza. I am sold on the product and confident Lyza will continue to be an invaluable tool in the highly competitive storage market that I work in."
Chris Thomas, Senior Account Technical Consultant, EMC

"Lyza Software is cool for business analysts, brings the data back to the desktop and enables discovery and exploration of enterprise data."
Shawn Rogers, Editorial Director, Business Intelligence Network

Tabaian would like the ability to consolidate up to 5 years worth of (144 generated annually) spreadsheets in an automated fashion and envisions using Lyza to create that "master data view" of the spreadsheets. "Sustainability reporting--and reporting in a timely fashion--is becoming a huge priority for Newmont Mining for this application as well as many others. Our initial work with Lyza indicates it can help us make 'quick sense' of our rapidly growing data volumes."
Jafar Tabaian, Business Enablement Manager, Newmont Mining Company

"We are constantly doing data manipulation and analysis-two of Lyza's definite sweet spots."
Eric Lieser, Project Leader, National Association of Home Builders Research Center

"Lyza offers a 'not-restricted' approach to data analysis. During our testing, we easily pulled data from Excel, Access, SQL Server as well as text files. Lyza enables us to bring together disparate tables from disparate databases and quickly do a cross section slice through the data. We found Lyza to be really handy for pulling metrics out of different databases and pulling it together so you can get a meaningful information and analysis out of the data."
David Hayden, Vice President, Operations EssentiaLink

"The tool (Lyza) binds the data with its metadata so that the analyses retains their lineage from data sources through filters, transforms, and joins to the presented tables and charts."
Richard Hackathorn, President, Bolder Technology

"Lyza has a columnar storage system well suited to analytic needs, with a graphical environment allowing analysts to build up analysis iteratively. It has OBDC and JDBC connectors allowing access to most data sources, and keeps careful track of the various steps of analysis that take place, giving auditability. When a user shares results with another Lyza user, all the metadata associated with the result set goes with the results, minimising the problem of how to understand the assumptions behind the data."
Andy Hayler, CEO, The Information Difference

"Transforming and mapping the data is easy to do with Lyza. I was able to perform survey data analysis in a few hours that previously took me a few days."
Mark Madsen, President, Third Nature

"What Lyza does is to provide an easier, more intuitive way of pulling data together from diverse sources, combining and manipulating it and creating results and reports for distribution to the business."
Barry Devlin, Principal, 9Sight Consulting

"It's (Lyza) aimed at analysts. Every company has several people in different departments who do analysis. They have lousy tools, and BI tools don't do this type of thing. That means the segment appears crowded, but is actually empty."
Mark Madsen, President, Third Nature