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Cottage Labs worked with the team to develop flexible data analytics to allow publishers using the tools to have access to usage data and business intelligence comparable to or better than commercial tooling.</p> </div> </div> <div class="project-page--section project-page--challenge"> <div class="project-page--section--text brown"> <h2><img class="icon" src="../../theme/images/icons/challenge.svg" aria-hidden="true">Challenge</h2> The NGLP team wanted to provide a set of open source options for publishing bodies to select from, including repository platforms for content storage, dissemination platforms for publishing, and so on. 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