What "business intelligence" has looked like since 2009
Twelve clicks to change one column. A pivot table wearing a suit.
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Enterprise business intelligence
Most teams stay because leaving looks expensive. Not because it's good.
The semantic model is years of work. Hundreds of reports depend on it, and every analyst has learned one vocabulary. Kronos was built to that shape deliberately — attributes are attributes, facts are facts — so this is a migration, not a rebuild.
- Visualization types
- 18Bar to sunburst — the gallery below shows ten of them rendered for real.
- Tenant isolation
- 1:1One database per customer. Not a shared table with a filter on it.
- Retraining required
- 0Same object model, same terminology, same drill behaviour.
- Audit re-verified
- 24hEvery entry hash-linked to the last and re-checked daily. Tampering is detected, not hoped against.
Not a bar chart with a marketing budget.
Twelve of the eighteen, rendered here as what they actually are — the same shapes your analysts would get from a live report, not screenshots dressed up for a landing page.
Bar
Grouped, stacked or 100% stacked over any grain.
Line & area
Trend series with an optional filled area beneath.
Donut & pie
Composition at a glance, with a hole reserved for the total.
Waterfall
Increases, decreases and running totals in one bridge.
Sunburst
Multi-level hierarchy evaluation, one ring per level.
Treemap
Nested proportion — size and color both carry meaning.
Heat grid
Two attributes, one metric, read by intensity not axis-squinting.
Box plot
Quartiles and outliers over any grain, Tukey's-hinge accurate.
Gauge
One number, one dial, colored zones you define.
Radar
Several metrics on one axis set, compared across grain members.
Scatter
Any two metrics against each other, colored by a third.
Histogram
Distribution of one metric, bucketed the way you define.
Built as a platform, not a chart library.
The grouping below is the information. A tool that has visualizations but no semantic layer, or a semantic layer with no distribution, is a tool you will outgrow in a year.
Semantic layer
the part that takes years to rebuildAttributes & hierarchies
Multi-level, with drill paths that behave the way your analysts already expect.
Facts & compound metrics
Level overrides, conditional metrics, and transformations that survive the move.
Custom groups & consolidations
Banding and arbitrary row grouping, evaluated where the data lives.
Prompts
Attribute, element, value and object prompts — including cascading dependencies.
Query & performance
where BI tools quietly give upROLAP pushdown
Aggregation runs in your warehouse. We do not pull a million rows to sum them here.
Cubes when you want them
Bind a report to a cube for speed, or leave it live. The grain contract is enforced either way.
Lineage
Ask what depends on an object before you change it, and get a real answer.
Versioning
Every edit recorded, with restore. Retention is a policy you set, not a mystery.
Governance & delivery
the reason procurement says yesACLs and row-level security
Object permissions and security filters composed, not bolted together.
Custom security roles
Define privilege sets that match how your organisation actually delegates.
Subscriptions
Scheduled and data-triggered delivery to PDF, XLSX and CSV, with real unsubscribe.
Folders & navigation
An object model people can find things in, with independent folder ACLs.
Four ways in. Pick the one that sounds like your week.
Each goes deeper on one thing. They all end up in the same place.
The migration is the reason you're still there.
Not the software. Parity on the objects that matter, so the model comes across and nobody has to relearn what a metric is.
Read the parity case → No BI teamThree weeks for one column
Easy Mode hides the parts you don't need yet, without capping what you can grow into.
See Easy Mode → AnalystsWhen it ends in a spreadsheet
Eighteen visualization types, conditional formatting, and exports that carry the formatting.
See the library → Serving customersYour name, not theirs
Database-per-tenant isolation with a single control plane and a real audit trail.
See the control plane →Bring the report nobody wants to rebuild.
The compound metric with the level override — the one with a security filter on it. We're taking a small number of early-access customers before general availability, and that report is what we would rather spend the session on.
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