Scale Secure Dashboards On MongoDB — A Breakthrough for B2B SaaS Companies

PART 1: MongoDB Opens Up A Brave New World

If you’re reading this, then you're in the know. You know that MongoDB’s "flexibility" around data models kicked the doors down and ushered in a brave new world of software development. Development is now exponentially faster, easier and cheaper to build. And MongoDB has moved beyond cloud-based consumer apps and is now no doubt running in production environments in government, healthcare, industrial, energy — really all over the enterprise.

PART 2: It Was So Easy. But Now Not So Much.

Now, if you’re reading this far, then you also are "in the know" regarding MongoDB’s inability to provide a solution for building embedded reporting — specifically, if you’re running a B2B SaaS app on MongoDB and want to provide a window into the data for a particular client, you’re going to be saying hello to more of what we all hate: little custom one-off reporting, ETL, replication.. the whole nine yards.

If you had to do it just once we could tolerate it. But do it five times and it sucks. 50? You’re miserable (or your team hates you). 500? It’s impossible. Say goodbye to your business plans at that point.

PART 3: SlamData Skates To Where the Puck Is Going

At SlamData we’re junkies for trying to solve (and solving!) what seems like intractable technical problems like these. We've worked with MongoDB enough to love a lot its parts, but we also loved where it "could go" — where it "should go". That is, we knew the full solution had to include the ability to query and visualize data in MongoDB.

In particular, igniting growth in cloud-based enterprise apps would absolutely require it — especially when the data models from B2B clients don’t look at all like each other. This isn't a consumer app where data models are locked down by the architecture of the app. About a ⅓ of our daily downloads fit this use case.

So if you want to run reports live right off of MongoDB — charts, tables and more — for your enterprise clients, install SlamData. Here’s why:

• It works within minutes of downloading it.
• It's code-free (requires no developer).
• You can use SQL.
• There's no ETL.
• There's no relocation.
• There's no data mapping.

If that piques your curiosity then read on! We’re almost done. Here are your two options for you to solve this problem/create the value your clients want:

Option 1: SlamData Community Edition + NGINX

1. Download SlamData Community Edition (open source).
2. Configure SlamData and NGINX (Or watch this tutorial).
3. Create "Notebooks" — or views of your data in visual format.
4. Title them.
5. Secure them.
6. Publish them.

 
Option 2: Download SlamData Advanced (Available 2/16)

1. License SlamData Advanced.
2. Configure SlamData.
3. Create "Notebooks" — or views of your data in visual format.
4. Title them.
5. Secure them.
6. Publish them.

SlamData addresses MongoDB's limitation head-on by making it easy to implement a reporting function on NoSQL data. Based on the conversations we’re having with large and small B2B SaaS companies, this is going to enable a this growing market to go where they've wanted to go all along.

Stay tuned as SlamData goes beyond MongoDB and becomes the visual analytics solution for NoSQL.