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Social Network Analysis Software 2015 Cuttlefish is a network workbench application that visualises the networks with some of the best known layout algorithms. It allows detailed visualisations of the network data, interactive manipulation of the layout, graph edition and process visualisation as well as different input methods and outputs in…

Business Intelligence Tools 2015 A terse list of business intelligence tools, with pertinent characteristics – functionality, platforms, cost basis. Should serve to form short lists. For more information on product click on the tags at the bottom – some have reviews and fuller details elsewhere on this site. WindWard –…

The current fascination with all things visual would seem to imply that embedded BI is primarily concerned with attractive dashboards and ad-hoc querying. For a few users it might be. Senior management certainly want to see dashboards with KPIs, but front-line workers have job to do and cannot afford to…

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…

These free BI and dashboard platforms are pretty well fully functional – only Lumira is somewhat restricted in data sources (the free edition anyway). InetSoft’s Style Scope Agile Edition™ is an easy to use, interactive dashboard software application that includes real time reporting and visual analytics capabilities. It is an…

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 report creation. ClicData is a cloud based dashboard platform that successfully delivers an…

There are many free dashboards that have been created for the native Google Analytics platform – some can be got at StateOfDigital and DashboardJunkie. The dashboard platforms below all have direct connectors for Google Analytics, and allow powerful visualization of data in ways that Google Analytics native dashboards might not…

The dashboard platforms below all have direct connectors for Salesforce, and allow powerful visualization of data in ways that Salesforce native dashboards might not support (particularly additional data sources). They are not heavy duty BI platforms, but focus largely on graphics, charts, and tables displayed in a dashboard. Many of…

Free and Open Source Graph Database 2015 Graph databases are primarily concerned with nodes and the connections between them (usually called edges). They tend to be used for their high performance and their natural ability to model rich data (rich in relationships). Some of these are free and others open…