Alteryx

Alteryx, a leader in self-service data analytics, has announced a new Predictive Analytics District in the Alteryx Analytics Gallery to make predictive analytics more accessible to data analysts through new tools, samples and analytic applications. These new applications enable data analysts with a self-service way to easily engage in predictive analytics.…

The word ‘best’ can be fairly meaningless, and so in this Business Intelligence Tools article I have indicated the products that excel in various areas. You will see a graphic displayed at the side of products which offer capability above the norm. This article is a work-in-progress and will be…

Predictive Analytics Software Summary Predictive analytics works on the simple notion that historical data contains useful patterns of behavior that can be discovered by apply pattern seeking algorithms to those data. Any candidate patterns can then be tested and validated in various ways, and if found fit, can be used…

Understanding Data Mining and Business Intelligence To get started with this we need to define these two terms. Data mining is the act of trawling through historical data with the aim of finding patterns that might be useful in the future. Business intelligence is concerned with looking at historical and current…

Business Intelligence Trends 2015 This data on business intelligence trends 2015 is taken from Google Trends and shows some interesting facts. Many of the established BI platforms – Cognos, Microstrategy, Oracle BI and so on show either flat or diminishing search trends. Many of the open source platforms are also diminishing,…

Business Intelligence Tools 2015 A terse list of business intelligence tools, with pertinent characteristics – functionality, platforms, cost basis. Should serve to form short lists. For more information on product click on the tags at the bottom – some have reviews and fuller details elsewhere on this site. WindWard –…

Summary: Complex analytics which involve widely diverse data sources are the forte of Alteryx. The platform is easy to use and extremely practical in its application to business problems. It avoids the unnecessary complexity of many other alternatives, while providing sophistication that is not available in most data visualization and…