Dashboard

Key performance indicators (KPIs) first appeared in the 1990s with the aura of mystery that accompanies any new idea. The mystery has gone, and now we all know now that KPIs have no rigorous definition, but are just metrics that summarize the state of a business as well as possible.…

Spotfire Review 2016 Version 7.5 Version 7 was a major release for Spotfire, majoring on ease of use and a powerful user interface. The latest version 7.5 adds some significant capability in the area of collaboration, data connectivity , and very significant architectural enhancements. The in-analysis collaboration supports live discussion…

Key performance indicators (KPIs) provide measures of performance that are important to an organization, department, or even an individual. They are often represented on dashboards, where several KPIs can be seen together. Formats include a wide variety of charts including pie charts, histograms, dials, gauges, and even maps. KPI dashboard…

Domo Review Summary: Domo is a cloud BI solution that is targeted at larger businesses, and majors on ease-of-use, social sharing of information and transparent access to diverse data sources. The actual analytic capability is on a par with most other offerings of this genre, but since the platform is…

Spotfire Tableau and Qlik Sense 2015 Here is the lowdown on these three analytics platforms: If you just want pretty visualizations choose Tableau. If you want easy-to-use visualizations with analytical beef choose Spotfire. If you want a unified view of your data and extensibility pick Qlik Sense. Of course Tableau and…

Verdict: Power BI Designer is a business dashboard and data management tool, and it seems Microsoft has at last realised there is an analytical world outside Excel. While Power BI Designer, at the time of writing, is still a work in progress, Microsoft has said that it will likely see…

The three dashboard platforms listed below provide free versions that access MS Access data. Bittle supports the creation of online dashboards specifically for the SME user. The free package restricts data storage and data sources, and comes with a standard graphics library (instead of a more advanced one). Bittle also…

These free cloud dashboards are mostly cut down versions of the commercial offering. Bittle supports the creation of online dashboards specifically for the SME user. The free package restricts data storage and data sources, and comes with a standard graphics library (instead of a more advanced one). Bittle also supports…

Verdict Easy-to-use cloud dashboard with hidden depths. Very reasonable pricing too. Positioning ClicData is a cloud based dashboard platform that successfully delivers an easy to use, drag and drop graphical interface, while providing the tools for power users to deliver high levels of sophistication. Business users are able to produce…