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A Joint ClicData and Butler Analytics article. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become the software equivalent of the semiconductor —ubiquitous, unseen, and capable of changing the shape of society and business. And it is embedded into increasing numbers of systems and applications in a manner that is both transparent and transformational.…

The only reason to indulge in analysis is to get a handle on the future. While business intelligence is positioned as a descriptive and diagnostic activity, we only do these things so we can modify future behaviors. Someone who is simply interested in looking through the rear view mirror for…

I have to confess that I have always liked Spotfire. The marketing may not have been as aggressive as some competitors, and it might not have had the immediate sex appeal of other products, but for anyone serious about visual analytics it is almost unbeatable. I use the word “serious”…

The recent developments in database architectures and storage methods have not necessarily made life any easier. We can store data in various encoded forms, as arrays, as hierarchies, in large quantities, and so on. The core problem of bringing data together for analysis has not necessarily been helped, despite the…

Klipfolio is a popular cloud app for chart and dashboard creation. It addresses the needs of many small and medium size businesses that simply want a visual representation of their data, and comes with over a hundred data connectors, pre-formed charts and dashboards, and follows the 80–20 rule: 80% of…

Dundas BI is a fully featured BI platform supporting production BI (reports and dashboards), self-service analytics, and embedded BI. It manages to offer ease of use for superficial users, and considerable sophistication for those whose needs are more complex. Transitioning from surface to in-depth use does involve a steep learning…

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…

It is often said that the only people who made their fortunes in the California gold rush were those selling spades and sieves. There is a striking similarity with the contemporary rush to anything with names such as “analytics”, “predictive analytics”, “machine learning” and so on. The people selling the…

Grow vs Tableau In Brief Grow BI is an ideal BI solution for small to medium size businesses whose analysis needs are quite straightforward (no requirement for advanced analytics for example). Tableau is better suited to medium to large businesses with needs that range from simple to moderately complex. In…