Multilingual Veggoagogo app helps vegetarians order when travelling

Source: Veggoagogo page
on the Play Store.

Helsinki-based Agogo Apps has launched Veggoagogo, a 50-language travel translation app for vegetarians that is available on both the iOS and Android platforms. The app is the first of a number of travel translation apps designed to use the same application architecture, Agogo Apps said.

Besides defining what a vegetarian is, Veggoagogo addresses many of the needs that the travelling vegetarian faces on a daily basis, from locating a restaurant that serves vegetarian fare, to choosing suitable items from the menu, down to thanking the chef, waiter, concierge, market-stall holder or friendly local.


The app can be used without Internet connectivity. The user chooses a question from a list, then selects from one of 50 languages available before tapping the translate button and being presented with their translation. The translation screen text has been optimised to be displayed at distance. It can be flicked between night and day modes for ease of reading in all lighting conditions.

Source: Veggoagogo page on the Play Store. Explaining what a vegetarian does not eat, and asking for dishes which have no meat, in Spanish.

Illustrator Cat MacInnnes created a range of animal icons that add to the usability of the app. Users can tap the animal icons atop the translation screen and be presented with full screen versions which can be swiped and used as a visual backup to the translated message. 

Said Paul Dodson, founder of Agogo Apps: "Often when travelling abroad it's hard to get across exactly what a vegetarian will and will not eat. In many countries it's a loosely defined concept where vegetarian dishes may still include fish or seafood. With Veggoagogo we aimed to do two things: one, to define very clearly what a vegetarian won't eat and two, to offer a range of questions that travelling vegetarians face on a daily basis. In version 1 of Veggoagogo, we do this in 50 languages.

"Veggoagogo has been designed with simplicity and usability in mind. The interface is uncluttered and hopefully, aesthetically pleasing. All of our translations have been professionally completed by native language speakers."

Veganagogo, a vegan version of the app is due on the market in June 2015.

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Taking the guesswork out of analytics with BeyondCore Apps for Office

Source: BeyondCore website.

BeyondCore has launched BeyondCore Apps for Office, which it says is the world's first single-click automated analysis solution for the popular business productivity suite. The company has observed that analytics talent is scarce even though business users need access to fast, accurate, dynamic analysis in order to make confident, data-driven decisions to increase revenue, reduce costs, and improve processes.

"Analytics today is fundamentally a manual hunting process. The onus is on the user to ask the right questions, conduct the necessary statistical tests, interpret the graphs correctly, and take the most impactful actions. BeyondCore eliminates this heavy burden," BeyondCore CEO and Founder Arijit Sengupta said. "It reduces the risk of human errors and the distracting 'data noise' that could send you down a very wrong path."

With single-click analysis and detailed story-based explanations of insights directly integrated into the familiar Office suite, BeyondCore Apps for Office empowers business users to:

• Analyse data without the need to formulate sophisticated questions or design complex queries 
• Cut through the clutter to identify and act on the most relevant, statistically-sound patterns 
• Visualise, understand, interpret, share, and act on the results

"With BeyondCore Apps for Office, advanced analytics couldn't possibly be any easier," said Sengupta. "Just as Microsoft has empowered users to do more than they ever thought possible with data processing, word processing and presentation design through Excel, Word and PowerPoint, BeyondCore Apps for Office is adding automated analysis to that list of powerful and user-friendly experiences."

"We're excited to see the BeyondCore Apps for Office. It's a great example of our modern extensibility model and for delivering advanced analytics in Office, helping people to do more with their data by turning it into insights and understanding," said Kirk Koenigsbauer, Corporate VP, Microsoft for the Office 365 Client Apps and Services team.

With BeyondCore Apps for Office, the Smart Pattern Discovery feature evaluates thousands of variable combinations, helping to identify insights, confirm statistical validity and create easy-to-understand stories explaining the results, all within minutes.

Results are presented as a PowerPoint presentation or a Word document, complete with speaker notes and narrative to explain each graph. BeyondCore also recommends optional insights that users can add to the document with a single click. They can also specify exactly which graphs they want to add, and BeyondCore automatically applies the same statistical rigour and generates a narrative explanation for the specified graph. 

BeyondCore's technology is based on eight years of research and two years of development, backed by 10 issued and more than a dozen pending patents. BeyondCore says its software has been used by 21 Fortune 100 companies and has been cited by Gartner, McKinsey and others for its approach to empowering business users with analytics.

Click here to see an online demonstration of BeyondCore Apps for Office, and here to find out more.