Domo adds collaborative development tool to analytics suite

Domo on Thursday unveiled Sandbox, a new development and testing environment built on top of the vendor’s platform that enables users to create and push analytics content into production across the enterprise.

Using Sandbox, Domo customers will be able to build applications, data models and other BI-related assets, collaborate during the development and testing process, and do so in the secure and governed space of the Domo analytics platform before releasing the content to the rest of the organization for consumption, the vendor said.

Sandbox is not the first development and testing environment for analytics content offered by an analytics vendor — a host of vendors provide tools for application and model development — but Sandbox stands apart, according to David Menninger, senior vice president and research director at Ventana Research…