Welcome to our May business update. To start, I wanted to give a quick update on the progress of our connected mills. Then, as promised, I’m going to drill down into our Sky product and provide insight into our features and rollout plans. Also on the heels of a local Virtual Reality Consumer conference, I’ll provide a quick update on Reelhouse VR progress.
Quick Cumul8 Update
As you may be aware by now, there are three products in the Cumul8 portfolio:
Stratus: the Asset Management system Cirrus: the live big data narrative system that we have deployed into forestry and a number of other sectors Sky: the mobile-first SaaS version of Cirrus As discussed in the last update, we are seeing fantastic enthusiasm with Cirrus in our “connected mill”. This is moving fast. So over the next few months we will continue to keep shareholders up to date on our progress. As mentioned we have spent many months writing the modules that help drive a big data narrative solution for a mill by pulling their data into the cloud. This software is written and we are leveraging our fantastic partnership with the Bid Group of Companies to install this solution into the industry. This week we are deploying the software, live, in two different companies. This is a big milestone and we will have two new clients.
Deep Dive into Cumul8 Sky
This is the SaaS version of Cumul8. Today we are pushing forward with our commercial release. I wanted to take this opportunity to refresh you on what we are building and how we are progressing. This is an amazing product and extremely timely in the world of visualizing big data. Sky is written specifically for the mobile device because we know this is how consumers will view big data.
Sky Vision
Find meaning in your data and share it with others. Sky feels simple, fun and powerful.
With Sky you can...
Connect and mashup your data easily Discover insights with interactive Datapics Share insights with Datapic conversations Sky raises the “Data Literacy” of:
Our conversations Our teams Our culture Sky enables reason over speculation.
Sky’s Pillar Features
1) Sky is mobile-first (for iOS and Android)
Now: realtime at the point of decision Collaborative: friction-free dialog Simple: strips away complexity and gets to the core insight Sky is a new medium for business communication.
2) Do-It-Yourself Data
Easy connection to your data Bash-ups: mix your own data source combos Connect to popular Cloud Drives & Web Data Sources Auto-clean your data at the press of a button Sky means no more data barriers.
3) Visual Analytics for Everyone
Datapics are the basic unit of insight Create interactive charts with builtin analytical tools Quickly discover meaningful patterns in your data Anyone can be a data explorer.
4) AutoInsights are your guide and we have machine-learning assistant for:
Finding insights quickly Exploring a spectrum of visuals Giving context to your data Simple, personalized, powered by best practices.
5) Collaboration: Let's Talk Data
Datapic is to Sky as Tweet is to Twitter More than just a chart... it's a dialog about insights using live data visuals Datapics are social, collaborative, realtime Better insights, faster alignment.
Sky Development Update
We are in mid-development and making great progress on building our vision. We are using a technique of rapid iteration for feature ideas and constant testing with real users. We’re gearing up for our next round of live user testing, concentrating on our “data explorer” mode which uses visual analysis backed by machine learning to help you instantly create charts and find insights buried in your data. Our official beta program is set to start this fall.
Reelhouse Update
It has been a good month and Reelhouse continues to grow in both content and viewership. Our VR launch has been a success.
VR viewers continue to grow as well as users on the site We have 31 VR projects on the site now and adding more regularly Over 6000 2D films already exist on the site We've been to Sundance, SxSW, Tribeca, SVVR & CVR all in the past 5 months promoting the platform and signing new filmmakers We just launched our iOS VR app for Cardboard (live in the app store now) We have a Tribeca premiere VR project uploading right now, that you will be able to view this week. That’s it for now. Next update I will focus on the business side of Cumul8 and give more insight into our sales and pricing strategy as we will build clients for both the Cirrus and Stratus products.
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