Review

BeyondCore Review Summary. BeyondCore is something of a glimpse into the future of business analytics. The current vogue in analytics is for all things visual – graphs, maps, charts, dashboards and so on. While this is a significant move forward from the paginated reports we have all come to love…

ThoughtSpot Review Summary. It seems there is no let up in the pace of innovation of business intelligence tools, and ThoughtSpot is a good example of this. Its BI platform is given the tag line of ‘search driven analytics’. The user interface is driven by a search bar, much as…

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…

Paxata Review Summary Paxata is a surprisingly easy to use data preparation platform enabling business users, analysts and others to access and prepare data for their own diverse needs. The increasing speed, diversity, complexity and volume of data mean that traditional approaches to data preparation are no longer adequate, and…

Datawatch Review Summary Datawatch provides a data to visualization platform that provides connection to a very large and diverse set of data sources. It does the difficult things like extracting formatted data from invoices or PDFs, as well as accessing the somewhat more straight forward files, databases and other structured…

KNIME Review Summary KNIME offers an open source visual workbench for various forms of data analysis, including visualization, profiling, data transformation, reporting, data mining and the creation of predictive models. Its industrial strength is well demonstrated by its interfaces to, and embedding in a number of commercial big data and…

Lavastorm Review Summary. Lavastorm technologies are truly interesting and innovative. This is not another data visualization or ETL toolset, but a platform that enables a complete workflow from data connection, through data wrangling (merging, cleaning, transforming, profiling), to the creation of visualizations and analytical models, and last but not least…

Inetsoft Review Summary Inetsoft provides a highly functional Bi platform capable of addressing sophisticated reporting needs through to end user data visualization. Power users are able to build the visualizations they need, although Inetsoft is more focused building production data visualizations and as such compares with QlikView, rather than data exploration…

Microsoft Power BI Summary Microsoft Power BI is disruptive technology. It upsets the equilibrium in the market for expensive data visualisation tools, and it makes business intelligence available to a whole new genre of user. And no one should think that Power BI is unsophisticated. Microsoft is on a mission,…