Knowi Reviews

This product has given me the ability to create reports across multiple platforms containing our data. The product is intuitive but for more complex activities I have needed guidance from support. I have found the support team to be superb, responsive and willing to walk me through any questions as well as help me find solutions for complex queries.

There is documentation available but it's not always thorough. The good news is that support will fill in any gaps as they continue to increase the amount of documentation available.

Providing a view into data that has been collected but had previously not been tracked or acted upon.

The software is pretty comprehensive for our needs and support is quick to respond to any concerns or requests we may have.

There are some UI bugs, and sometimes the specific use case we need isn't covered. There are workarounds, however.

Knowi is integrated with our next generation software and forms the basis of our reporting tool. Many of our clients have already benefitted from Knowis tools and data presentation

knowi helps with easy visualization; it has a high-level; data engineering layer which deals with the easy connection with other data sources. Some NLP abilities are appreciable

The UI is a little slow; it takes time to fetch information; some times, it opens up unwanted doubts and queries which are really distracting and time consuming

It handles all our siloed data efficiently and provides us with better insights and understandings; saves time;

I love how flexible the product is and how it does everything I need. If I have any questions, the staff are quick to response & highly knowledgeable about every aspect of the platform.

Knowi is lovely - don't have a bad thing to say. It does it all

One of our A.I. startup's biggest problems is that we move EXTREMELY quickly. Every day we are heading in a different direction or exploring a new idea. As a result, we are snowballing and exploring new avenues every day. Knowi is the ultimate solution if you are a company in this same boat - it's equal parts powerful & flexible. It makes quick, pivoting decisions so simple. I can't recommend it enough for any startup.

We tried out Knowi and were instantly hooked on how easy it is to analyze data from multiple data sources. The platform is easy to use, even if you are unfamiliar with data management. Support is fast and valuable.

The platform could allow more view-only users and more graph options.

Knowi has made it easy to build dashboards, reconcile financial data, monitor performance and generate reports. It is our "go to" tool!

Our behavioral health organization has siloed data in over six different systems. There was NO easy way to make sense of our data without my team engaging in a TON of manual labor (insert sighs from my staff as they spent hours hunched over their computer screens trying to export CSV files and make pivot tables).

And then we discovered Knowi, and everything changed.

Knowi provides us with a unified view of ALL our siloed data. We have leadership and departmental dashboards automatically delivered to our team so they can manage their key metrics efficiently and transparently (no more CSV exports and pivot tables). Most importantly, using Knowi has given back precious time to our team that they can use to focus on supporting our staff and patients.

There's nothing to dislike about Knowi. My team can easily access any data they need or create automatic alerts to ensure we don't miss crucial information (like weekly contract utilization or staff productivity by department).

We have patient and staff data stored in multiple siloed systems. We use Knowi's virtual data sets to create dashboards that combine ALL of our relevant patient or staff data to allow us to make informed decisions without worrying that we're missing something. Automatically delivering key metric dashboards to our department leaders has helped them focus on taking action or providing support for their staff. With Knowi, we've been able to move from being a reactive organization to a proactive organization.

Knowi has a top-notch data engineering layer that eliminates the need for ETL and ETL resources. It allows you to connect to any data source, regardless of technology, and then simply start querying and joining across these disparate sources. Couple this with it's NLP abilities and it's really quite amazing.

Knowi has so many features that it can take a little while to fully grasp everything it has to offer. The UI is not as slick as some other solutions, but the focus is more on allowing you to quickly tap into your data than spend time on superficial elements.

The biggest problem it solves is being able to grab data from anywhere and then join it all together to form nice, clean datasets from which your users can then go and fish. The hardest job is always accessing and cleaning up data. Knowi makes this easy. Once that is done, then users can create their own assets without the need for a huge data department.

In 2022-Q1, I conducted a series of data-viz trials between Grow, PowerBI, Mode, trevor.io, GoodData, Klipfolio, Domo, Sisense, Knowi et al. The trials included my team members, but we were outnumbered (by design) by non-tech business users. The biggest surprise was how quickly Mode ("too inflexible & slow") was eliminated – I thought for sure they would be a finalist.

We built the highest number of useful dashboards the fastest using Knowi – a clear win. After the trials, we migrated everything we made to Knowi, as we didn't try out any canned use cases, only real-world "need" cases.

While we selected Knowi as a viz tool, I'm also happy we did so from a data engineering perspective. Knowi's architecture models data thoughtfully, which I'd credit for enabling a collection of elegant features. Like the ability to live-update the contents of a dataset incrementally via API. Or Knowi's ability to query a source, returning a dataset that you can immediately re-query where it becomes a transformed/derived data-set... which it can hold on to for you, or persist in a different destination, or Knowi can even rewrite that derived dataset back to the original source.

Thinking about this now, I have two feature suggestions I'll submit to Knowi. They've been receptive in the past and fast to implement. One is after you edit a query, you are then shown a thoughtful link that (optionally) takes you to your "last dashboard." It could be handy to have in a couple of more places. Finally, in the drag & drop query explorer, I wouldn't mind if the column of fields were resizeable via a handlebar on the side. This might save me some horizontal scrolling, as I tend to make my field names relatively long.

As a leader in the company, I needed a solution that enabled business users in every department to do their own exploratory data analysis. But as the leader of Business Intelligence, I needed tooling that provided advanced data visualization and analytics for the technical specialists on my team. I didn't think we could satisfy a diverse user base using a single BI tool, and as such, I wasn't expecting one to. However, I was surprised to discover Knowi serves both technical and non-technical users strikingly well without being a compromise to either.

For example, users who aren't interested in learning SQL have two options. One, they can submit queries in a normal sentence structure, which Knowi interprets via NLP. Second, they can use the drag & drop query builder. Even I use it often (despite my software engineering background) simply because it's faster and easier to do certain things using the visual builder than it is to write code to do the same. For example, it's easier to use the UI to trend aggregates (count, average, mean, etc.) on a time series. One does that a lot in BI. Even so, it is easy to flip back and forth between the visual builder and raw SQL within the same query. What's more, the drag & drop query builder puts a tiny info icon on each field which displays an instant hover showing you the min, max, mean, standard deviation, the # of missing records (if any), and also the cardinality of each field. So basically, Knowi teaches you a ton about your data even before you've finished querying it.

For more technical users, Knowi lets you use SQL extensively, even in places you wouldn't think possible. For instance, let's say you've made some visualizations on a dashboard when you notice you'd like to make a refinement. There's no need to go all the way back to the database, query, or settings; you can just inject SQL into the widget to quickly make the change. This is one of Knowi's many "power" features that don't stand in the way of nominal use. Another is alerting. Most solutions give you basic threshold alerting, and so does Knowi. But Knowi also makes it trivial to set up anomaly alerting based on standard deviation. I haven't seen another vendor provide alerts based on standard deviation. If anyone were going to, I would have thought Elasticsearch/Kibana might, but no, not unless you specifically imbue Elastic with some sort of custom one-off javascript. Even then, it's a maybe. In Knowi, it's just 2-clicks.

Over the past 4.5 months since buying Knowi, we've onboarded 46 Users, written 179 Queries, made 415 Visualizations, and 88 Dashboards. Two divisions now have a Weekly Business Review (WBR) where Directors/VPs review their metrics. Also, the entire company does a Monthly Business Review (MBR). Presenting directly from Knowi saves hours of prep time. Moreover, being able to explore drill-downs live sparks richer data-inspired discussions. These reviews result in decisions and actions. In all, it would be fair to say we are now able to steer our business through Knowi.

The ease of use and the different amount of widgets they offer.

A phone app would be a nice addtion. Easier to navigate on an iPad as well would be nice

Trust the sales and development team they truly are the experts. Be well prepared with what you want to accomplish and also what you have tried in the past. They will also be as engaged with you as you are with them. I recommend weekly meetings in the begging just to gain a pulse on what is going on.

Productivity, Missed Revenue Opportunities, Transparency with our KPI

Being a non-technical user, I liked Knowi's search-based analytics feature. I was able to ask questions in English and get quick responses in the form of tables, charts, and graphs. Their customer support team also responded quickly to my support tickets. It was also easy to embed graphs and charts on our company's online portal through Knowi's embedded analytics feature.

Knowi is a small company, but it's headed in the right direction in terms of growth. It lacked connectors to some cloud services. I hope they will resolve this problem soon.

If you are a non-technical user looking for a BI tool, Knowi is the best option. They will also respond to your queries quickly in case you get stuck.

We use Knowi to manage our library resources. Knowi has been useful because most of our team members only possess basic technical skills. By asking questions in English, we can get immediate responses. No need to write lines of code or go through a sequence of lengthy steps to get answers.