Quick Start
Getting started with Semaphor.
Introduction
Semaphor is an fully-customizable embedded analytics solution designed for customer-facing dashboards and data products. It's fast, light-weight, and seamlessly adapts to your applications design, styling, and functional needs.
With Semaphor, you can build dashboards 10× faster—without needing to redeploy your app. By decoupling analytics from your product code, you can quickly iterate on your dashboards, and publish changes independently.
Built on open standards, Semaphor lets you visualize data using natural language, SQL, or Python, giving you full control over business logic.
Semaphor has a pluggable architecture. You can bring your own charting library or even custom components and integrate them into your dashboard with just a few lines of code.
Semaphor has four components:
Semaphor Console
A web-based dashboard builder to manage your dashboards and data permissions.
Semaphor SDK
Javascript package to embed dashboards in your application.
Semaphor CLI
Command line tool to publish your custom components to Semaphor.
Semaphor Service
API layer to programmatically to interact with Semaphor.
Getting Started
Once you have a Semaphor account, you can log in to the Semaphor Console to begin.
1. Connect to your data source
Go to the Connections tab in the console to link your data source. Refer to the Connectors section for more details.
2. Create a dashboard
Build your dashboard directly from the console using natural language, SQL, and python.
3. Embed the dashboard
Customize colors, styling, and layout of the dashboard from the console so it matches your application. When ready, embed the dashboard in your application.
Use Cases
Semaphor’s flexible analytics capabilities cater to a wide range of industries, enabling businesses to seamlessly integrate data-driven insights into their applications. Here’s how Semaphor can help:
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SaaS Products: Empower your SaaS platform with embedded analytics, allowing customers to track key metrics, generate reports, and make informed decisions—all within your product’s interface.
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Financial Services: Provide real-time financial insights with customized dashboards for banking, investment, and financial management apps. Offer users interactive reports and predictive analytics for better decision-making.
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Logistics & Supply Chain: Optimize supply chain efficiency with real-time tracking, demand forecasting, and logistics insights. Empower teams to manage inventory, shipments, and supplier performance more effectively.
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E-Commerce & Retail: Gain deeper insights into customer behavior, sales trends, and inventory performance. Embed analytics directly into your platform to optimize marketing strategies and operational efficiency.
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Healthcare & Life Sciences: Enhance patient care and operational efficiency by embedding real-time analytics into healthcare applications. Track patient data, monitor trends, and improve clinical decision support.
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Human Resources & Workforce Analytics: Visualize workforce trends, diversity metrics, and employee performance. Enable HR teams to make data-driven decisions regarding hiring, retention, and organizational development.
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Education & EdTech: Enable educators and administrators to track student progress, engagement levels, and learning outcomes. Provide actionable insights into course effectiveness and institutional performance.