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…
Grow BI is positioned as an easy-to-use, business oriented visual BI platform implemented as a cloud service. It is not a particularly sophisticated product, and does not compete with the likes of Tableau or Qlik. Small to medium size businesses will find it does most of what they need, provided the…
The supposed similarities between artificial intelligence and human intelligence have been made often enough. Neural networks have been widely advertised as an attempt to mimic the neurons in the brain, but this is a fairly superficial analysis. In reality AI is already well beyond any attempts to mimic human intelligence…
One of Tableau’s marketing messages says “answer questions at the speed of thought”. I doubt that very many people would really want to do that, the result being a large number of poorly considered questions. In fact, one of the dangers associated with visual analytics is the ease with which…
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…
Contributed by Francis Miers, director at software lifecycle specialist, Automation Consultants Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is now a major fixture in many organisations’ IT. The largest IaaS provider, Amazon Web Services (AWS), has gone from launch in 2006 to revenues of $18 billion in 2017. AWS is the market…
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…
Big Data: 70 Amazing Free Data Sources You Should Know for 2017 Every great data visualization starts with good and clean data. Most of people believe that collecting big data would be a rough thing, but it’s simply not true. There are thousands of free data sets available online, ready…
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,…