Analytics

Contributed article by Amir Qureshi, Regional Customer Success Director, EMEA at ThoughtSpot It’s hard to find a large enterprise that isn’t undertaking a large-scale digital transformation initiative today. Whether it’s the fear of disruption, the urgency to adapt to digital native customers or employees, or the need to improve business…

The only reason to indulge in analysis is to get a handle on the future. While business intelligence is positioned as a descriptive and diagnostic activity, we only do these things so we can modify future behaviors. Someone who is simply interested in looking through the rear view mirror for…

I have to confess that I have always liked Spotfire. The marketing may not have been as aggressive as some competitors, and it might not have had the immediate sex appeal of other products, but for anyone serious about visual analytics it is almost unbeatable. I use the word “serious”…

Klipfolio is a popular cloud app for chart and dashboard creation. It addresses the needs of many small and medium size businesses that simply want a visual representation of their data, and comes with over a hundred data connectors, pre-formed charts and dashboards, and follows the 80–20 rule: 80% of…

Dundas BI is a fully featured BI platform supporting production BI (reports and dashboards), self-service analytics, and embedded BI. It manages to offer ease of use for superficial users, and considerable sophistication for those whose needs are more complex. Transitioning from surface to in-depth use does involve a steep learning…

Qlik Review Summary. Qlik provides a broad suite of technologies to support self-service visual analytics, production analytics, data management and preparation, embedded analytics, and developer platforms. The feature that distinguishes Qlik is its associative engine which automatically finds relationships between various data sources. This has the ability to find unsuspected…

Grow vs Tableau In Brief Grow BI is an ideal BI solution for small to medium size businesses whose analysis needs are quite straightforward (no requirement for advanced analytics for example). Tableau is better suited to medium to large businesses with needs that range from simple to moderately complex. In…

Grow BI is positioned as an easy-to-use, business oriented visual BI platform implemented as a cloud service. It is not a particularly sophisticated product, and does not compete with the likes of Tableau or Qlik. Small to medium size businesses will find it does most of what they need, provided the…

One of Tableau’s marketing messages says “answer questions at the speed of thought”. I doubt that very many people would really want to do that, the result being a large number of poorly considered questions. In fact, one of the dangers associated with visual analytics is the ease with which…