It’s been an intense month of development launching our decentralised share register, but the platform is now live and we are already receiving a steady stream of companies signing up!

Here are some of the key things we’ve been working on during October to help businesses understand and manage their shareholder data better…

What we’ve been up to — our key developments in summary

Decentralised Share Register (DSR)

Business Analytics reporting

Shareholder hierarchy and beneficial owners

Additional registers

Introductory tutorial

Business Analytics: getting to know your data better

The main feature that went live in October was our Business Analytics reporting tool, which uses Microsoft Power BI-embedded functionality to access and analyse shareholder data. In order to give companies immediate data insight into their members, Power BI accesses data through direct query mode, using on-premise data gateway — we’ll discuss this architecture in a separate technical blog soon.

The aim of our Business Analytics tool is to give companies using our DSR extensive detail on their investors and asset structures. The reporting dashboard is interactive to enable quick and easy analysis, with ‘clickable’ charts that filter information in real-time, so business owners can drill down to the insights that matter most.

There are three ways in which users can analyse their data:

General analysis — view information such as top investors, asset KPIs, and company versus individual holder distribution

Demographic analysis — segment individual investors or investor groups by their age, gender and holding (if companies are logging this level of data), for more detailed insights

Geographical analysis — map where shareholders are located in the world to understand target markets and activity hot spots