DataSalon, the Movie!

by Nick Andrews
Posted on January 22, 2015January 22, 2015
Customer Insight

Since launching the business back in 2006, it has been amazing to see MasterVision grow into an enterprise cloud platform, now used by over 20 of the world’s biggest scholarly publishers to clean & join over 1 billion […]

by Nick Andrews
Posted on November 25, 2014November 26, 2014
Data Integration & Cleansing

Recently we launched OrgRef: an open dataset of academic and research organizations which is free for anyone to use. It certainly takes a significant amount of effort to create and maintain it, so it might […]

We aim to make our core product MasterVision as easy to use as possible, whilst still enabling users to perform complex tasks to get the most out of their customer data. We currently offer two […]

Last month we were very proud to announce the launch of OrgRef – a completely free dataset sharing open data about the most important academic and research organizations worldwide. Reference data about organizations is important because it […]

by Andy Dobson
Posted on August 27, 2014October 23, 2014
Customer Insight

The whole purpose of metrics and charts is to help answer two fundamental questions: “how are we doing?” and “what should we do next?”. For journal publishers, there are several different ‘vital signs’ to track […]

It’s the summer holiday season – a time to get away, relax and forget about all those recurring data tasks you have lined up. If you have those jobs automated, you can happily switch off […]

The term ‘market’ is often used in relation to academic journals (“what’s our market share?” and so on), but it’s not always entirely clear what that means, or how big ‘the market’ actually is. It’s […]

If you saw our blog article ‘Who ate all the pies?‘ a couple of months ago, you’ll know that we’re always on the lookout for new ways to make using MasterVision as clear and intuitive […]

Software as a service (SaaS) is everywhere these days, with high-profile success stories like Salesforce leading the charge of hosted business tools. When we launched MasterVision back in 2006, the term “SaaS” wasn’t in common […]

Here at DataSalon we’re constantly looking at how best to present data in clear and intuitive ways. Top of our ‘hit list’ was to come up with a better alternative to using the humble pie […]