Atlassian Acquires Data Discovery and Analytics Startup Chartio

Source: Atlassian

Atlassian Corporation is set to acquire data discovery and analytics startup Chartio for an undisclosed amount, according to Yahoo! News. According to Atlassian, the addition of Chartio will provide a data visualization features across its line of products. Since its founding in 2010, Chartio raised nearly $7 million in venture capital funding and touts more than 280,000 users. Chartio claims customers have created 10.5 million charts on its business intelligence platform to date.

Chartio is a cloud-based data discovery platform that lets you create charts and interactive dashboards. The product features a proprietary, visual version of SQL that enables any user to explore, transform and visualize data via a flexible drag-and-drop interface. There is no need to build data models in advance. Chartio includes a set of pre-built connections to data sources like Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery and Snowflake, while also enabling direct access to CSVs and Google Sheets.

Atlassian will integrate Chartio’s data visualization functionality into the Jira product family of work management software, which are “used by teams in areas such as software development to coordinate their activities” according to Silicon Angle. Atlassian also foreshadowed that it may integrate these capabilities into other tools in the future.

In a media statement about the news, Chartio Founder and CEO Dave Flower said “Chartio was created to make working with data accessible to anyone. We are thrilled to be joining Atlassian and amplify our missions with such an incredible platform, company, and customer base.”

Read Announcing our acquisition of Chartio by Zoe Ghani in the Atlassian blog to learn more.