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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…

Strengths The QIX associative data engine makes dealing with multiple, concurrent data sources easy and powerful. Excellent extensibility through powerful APIs. Powerful and easy to use data visualization tools with access to external graphical libraries if needed. QlikView as a production oriented, developer focus platform, and Qlik Sense for self-service…

Your CEO asks for a status update, and so you present her with a dashboard containing fifteen charts, tables and graphs. If your CEO is polite (unlikely) she will take a look, pretend to understand, and quickly move on. What is more likely, is that she will become a little…

The End of Visual Analytics Irrational Exuberance It’s no secret that the market for business intelligence, and particularly visual analytics tools is flat. Last year was the year of visual analytics irrational exuberance, when we were told over and over that staring at charts would help us transform our business.…

We use business intelligence (BI) platforms to understand operational activities and diagnose problems. Charts and dashboards have become a favorite mechanism to do this work, but we have to know what we are looking for, and then dig into the data for answers. There are two significant problems associated with…

Qlik has announced the general availability of Qlik Sense Enterprise 2.0. It also announced Qlik Analytics Platform, which extends the already excellent developer toolkit, and will be of particular interest to ISVs, OEMs and systems integrators. It supports the embedding of visualizations into production applications and websites.  Here are the…

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…

Big Data Visualization Tools 2015 Big data visualization tools rest on their ability to connect efficiently with big data databases, and manage the data in a useable format. The visualization tools themselves typically facilitate the creation of charts and dashboards, but some offer more advanced forms of analytics such as predictive…

As data sources proliferate so the need for good ETL tools increases. Here is a fairly extensive list of ETL tools currently available. Free ETL Tools Talend Open Source Data Integrator provides multiple solutions for data integration, both open source and commercial editions. Talend offers an Eclipse-based interface, drag-and-drop design…