Business Intelligence

Tableau Software a leader in visual analytics, has announced the roll out of Hyper, the new data engine technology included within Tableau 10.5. With Hyper’s ability to slice and dice massive volumes of data in seconds, customers will see up to 5X faster query speed and up to 3X faster…

Dashboards are flavor of the month right now, and there is no shortage of suppliers providing dashboard platforms – most of them in the cloud. The pricing of these platforms seems quite random. Some relatively unsophisticated platforms come with a high price tag and glossy marketing. Others are quite sophisticated,…

ClicData vs Tableau 2017 In brief: ClicData will be more than adequate for many people’s needs, particularly if they simply want to create dashboards of varying degrees of complexity. The cost of ClicData may also be an order of magnitude lower than Tableau for many configurations. Tableau, on the other…

ClicData Review 2017 Summary ClicData is positioned as an easy-to-use business dashboard application hosted on the cloud. It certainly fulfills this function well, making it extremely easy for users to load data and create dashboards. When I first reviewed ClicData some three years ago, it was clear that the product…

Zoho Reports Review Summary Zoho Reports is a cloud based BI service that compares well with many prominent BI platforms. It comes with a rich visual environment, interfaces to a large number of data sources and applications, comes with native support for mobile devices, strong embedding functionality, and functional extensibility.…

This list of the best embedded BI platforms is led by GoodData simply because it offers the most sophisticated embedding technologies and services, and has a very good appreciation of the power of embedded analytics in a production environment. The rest are listed in alphabetical order. GoodData provides technologies and…

Most businesses are primarily concerned with customers, internal operations, suppliers and product. They are not primarily interested in business analytics. So it seems fairly obvious that if analytics is to have a place in the business then it needs to address these things – customer recruitment and retention, supply chain,…

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…

Stories is a business intelligence platform that tells you what you need to know. This is quite different from traditional BI platforms where we have to discover the things that are important for us to know. The name of the product reveals the way it works. Instead of presenting a…