Astrato 2024 roundup: A Year of Innovations and Growth

As 2024 comes to a close, it’s the perfect time to reflect on an extraordinary year for Astrato. Packed with groundbreaking innovations, impactful collaborations, and a growing community of customers, this year marked a significant evolution in our journey to redefine self-service analytics. Here are some highlights that made 2024 truly exceptional:

Advancing Self-Service BI

At Astrato, empowering users with intuitive and powerful tools has always been our mission. This year, we launched over 50 releases, introducing more than 100 features that spanned the full analytics stack—from visualization enhancements to advanced computational capabilities.

• New Visualization Types: We unveiled seven visualization types, including:
  • Waterfall Charts for dynamic cash flow and P&L analysis.
  • Sankey Diagrams to visualize complex data flows interactively.
  • Distribution Charts for identifying patterns and outliers.
  • Radar Charts, Word Clouds, and more—each designed to enhance data storytelling.
• Geospatial Analytics: From heat maps to custom regions and even floor plans, our mapping capabilities now enable use cases ranging from retail foot traffic analysis to regional sales performance.
• Advanced Calculations: Features like moving averages, period-over-period comparisons, and nested calculations have made complex analytics accessible with just a few clicks, eliminating the need for coding or data modeling expertise.

Seamless AI Integration

2024 saw Astrato integrate cutting-edge generative AI capabilities, transforming both analysis and dashboard creation:

• AI-Assisted Measures and Insights: Users can now generate measures, aliases, and entire semantic layers with natural language commands. For example, creating a measure like “Quantity delivered above 200 in Sweden” is as simple as typing it out—Astrato’s AI does the rest.
• Natural Language Querying: Ask questions directly in your dashboard and receive visualizations or text-based summaries instantly.
• Custom LLM Connectivity: Astrato’s “Bring Your Own LLM” approach allows seamless integration with OpenAI, Snowflake Cortex, Google’s Gemini, and more, ensuring flexibility and control for enterprise users.

Beyond BI: The Rise of Data Apps

Astrato expanded its horizons beyond traditional BI tools, positioning itself as a platform for building self-service data applications. This shift included:

• Interactive Actions: Enabling users to integrate workflows, trigger stored procedures, and embed dynamic logic into dashboards.
• Pixel-Perfect Reporting: Enhanced PDF and Excel reporting capabilities provided enterprise-grade outputs, complete with scheduled, conditional, and on-demand options.
• Collaborative Tools: Linked objects, dynamic layouts, and real-time co-editing features fostered collaboration among users.

Growing the Astrato Ecosystem

In 2024, we welcomed ClickHouse as a new supported data source, complementing our existing integrations with Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift, and Postgres. This expansion underscores our commitment to being a platform-agnostic solution, enabling customers to work seamlessly with their preferred cloud data engines.

Looking Ahead to 2025

As we celebrate our accomplishments, we’re also gearing up for an exciting 2025. Here’s a glimpse of what’s to come:

• AI-Driven Visualization Generation: Imagine creating an entire dashboard or financial report simply by describing it.
• Enhanced Enterprise Readiness: Improved team collaboration, version control, and lifecycle management features.
• Specialized Visualizations: Timeline, Gantt charts, and advanced pivot tables tailored for financial reporting and project management.
• Real-Time Collaboration: Live co-editing and enhanced alerting to make teamwork seamless.

Thank You to Our Community

None of this would be possible without our vibrant community of users, partners, and advocates. Your feedback and support drive our innovation, and we’re deeply grateful for the trust you place in Astrato.

As we look to 2025, we remain committed to delivering cutting-edge solutions that empower you to explore data effortlessly, make smarter decisions, and build the applications of the future.

Happy New Year from all of us at Astrato! 🥳

Watch our 2024 highlights video