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The productivity of a BI platform is the number one concern of businesses choosing a product. While the hardware and software costs vary, these are dwarfed by the cost associated with the actual use of a platform, and as such it needs to be as productive as possible. Listed below…

Data Visualization Software. Visual analytics is the act of finding meaning in data using visual artifacts such as charts, graphs, maps and dashboards. In addition, the user interface is typically driven by drag and drop actions using wholly visual constructs. The up side to this is ease of use –…

The word ‘best’ can be fairly meaningless, and so in this Business Intelligence Tools article I have indicated the products that excel in various areas. You will see a graphic displayed at the side of products which offer capability above the norm. This article is a work-in-progress and will be…

Big data analytics is moving on. Until recently it meant wrestling with MapReduce and glueing a dozen or more components together to make a viable big data platform. The big data analytics tools listed below ‘shrink wrap’ big data technologies to some degree and make the whole effort much more…

We visualize data in charts and graphics because we need information that is not readily available in tables of numbers or written reports. Until recently we have let the computer dictate how information has been presented to us. Computers like numbers and text. They are easily handled, don’t take up…

Self-Service Data Preparation Summary. Once upon a time data was neatly arranged into rows and columns. It was a natural format for the highly structured data that accompanied most administrative functions within the business. Sales orders, employee data, purchase orders, accounting information – each transaction was exactly the same format…

Self Service Data Preparation Platforms Summary Greater data variety pretty much translates to greater data complexity. As businesses embrace diverse data sources, so there is a pressing need to make those data more easily accessible and to combine them in ways which can add value. This variety comes in the…

ClearStory Review Summary ClearStory provides a cloud based platform that takes business users from data to visualization with minimal need for technical skills. In common with several other suppliers (Tamr, Paxata, Platfora and others) it uses machine learning techniques and Apache Spark in-memory processing, to take data from its raw…