Exploratory Weekly Report - 2024/4/29

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There is no shortcut for the work. Period. There’s no magic pill; there’s no magic elixir. It’s about habits. You have to do things even when you don’t want to do them.

We're now wrapping up the development work for Exploratory v10. The theme of v10 is 'Signal & Noise', and we want to help our customers find valuable knowledge with their data.

But before the release, we need to focus on the followings.

First, we need to improve the quality of the usability of all the new features for Exploratory v10. In order to do it, we need to start testing and using those features, and quickly iterate to improve them.

Second, we need to keep promoting Exploratory Server. In order to do it, we need to communicate how easy and effective to use Exploratory to track business metrics with Dashboard and to create reports with Note. Yes, we have all the other great features around Exploratory Server, but first thing first, users want to use Exploratory to create Dashboard and/or Note first, then they care about scheduling, sharing, collaboration, etc.

We all need to always think about how we can improve the product and our messaging.

Thanks,
Kan

Key Metrics

Subscription

Paid Users (Weekly): 649 -> 649

Growth (Conversions) (Monthly):

Japan: 3.8% (14) (Mar)
US: 2.15% (2) (Mar)
Others: 4.2% (7) (Mar)

Churn Rate (Monthly):

Japan: 5% (17) (Mar)
US: 4% (4) (Mar)
Others: 3% (5) (Mar)

Training:

Bootcamp (Jun) - 10

Good of the week

We delivered a capability to sort the Repeat By charts and sort the chart color legend with the aggregate functions.

Done last week

Product Development

We started wrapping up the work for Exploratory v10 by focusing on fixing existing issues and adding enhancements based on customer feedback.

We added the following enhancements.

Sort support for Repeat By for Chart.
Sort with Aggregate Function support for Chart's Color.
Support Max Date for Pre-Defined Limit Values.

Sales / Marketing / Support

We had 11 existing customer meetings, 7 on-boarding meetings, and 1 lead meetings.

We have published 'Happiness Ranking' video.

Training / Seminar

We delivered Exploratory Hour & 'Customer Success Metrics' seminar last week.

Planned for this week

Product Development

This week, we'll focus on improving the Exploratory v10's new features by using them and iteratively improving the user experience around them.

We'll also work on adding Text Search capability for Note and improving Pivot Table's column header formatting.

Sales / Marketing / Support

Lead Meeting

We'll have 1 lead customer meeting.

Onboarding

We'll have 6 onboarding meetings this week.

Reach

We'll continue to focus on the following 3 themes to expand our reach beyond where we are.

This Week's Data - We'll continue to release the video once a week. Currently, it's 3940. The first mile stone is to get to 10,000.
Excel - We'll continue to create more 'how-to' notes to promote Exploratory for Excel users. We'll make a plan for delivering a series of Excel related seminars this week.
KPI/Dashboard - We'll publish a blog post, and plan to come up with a list of seminars for promoting the use of Exploratory for monitoring business metrics.

Training/Seminar

Exploratory Hour

Ikuya/Takato will deliver Exploratory Hour on Tuesday.

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Seminar

We'll skip a seminar this week.

This Week's Data

Kan will create 'What COVID did to Education' this week.