Analytics

A guest contribution from Dean Yao – Director of Marketing, Jinfonet. It’s becoming harder and harder for businesses to keep up with and understand the sheer magnitude of data available to them on a day-to-day basis. Especially with how quickly it’s created and consumed. Currently, millions of gigabytes of data are…

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,…

This is a very long article. A PDF can be downloaded here. Summary The proclamation that data is our greatest latent asset is often made, and usually without much elaboration. Other than being a convenient cliché for technology suppliers, what does this assertion mean? To answer this question, we need…

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…

In most respects SAS sets the standard for breadth of functionality in a statistical analysis suite. However, not everyone needs that level of functionality (or cost), and so here is a list of free alternatives to SAS statistics that many users will find quite adequate. Dataplot is a free, public-domain,…

Article contributed by Danish Wadhwa: Big data is all about using tools and processes to generate insights from a bulk of data. This data has one of three characteristics – high speed, extreme variety, and large volume. The correlations and conclusions that big data derives are comprehensible and are difficult…

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.…