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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…

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…

We visualize data in charts and graphics because we need information that is not readily available in tables of numbers or written reports. Until recently we have let the computer dictate how information has been presented to us. Computers like numbers and text. They are easily handled, don’t take up…

Chartio Review 2015 Positioning Chartio is a cloud based data visualization platform targeted almost exclusively at the business user. Everything about this product has been engineered to make the task of visualizing data easy. The company is focused pretty much exclusively on revenues from licenses, and so the product has…

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 –…

The current fascination with all things visual would seem to imply that embedded BI is primarily concerned with attractive dashboards and ad-hoc querying. For a few users it might be. Senior management certainly want to see dashboards with KPIs, but front-line workers have job to do and cannot afford to…

Many of these cloud BI platforms do very similar things – dashboards, charts, reporting, data consolidation. A few however are somewhat different. Datapine is one of the easiest to use and is an extremely productive platform. FICO Analytic Cloud goes well beyond the usual features and include statistics, data mining…