TIBCO Spotfire® is data analytics software designed for data exploration. It enables discovery and depiction of critical insights in data that drive real value. Spotfire has been named as Visionaries in 2015 Gartner Magic Quadrant for BI and Analytics platforms. Tibco Spotfire has a user base in verticals like Energy, Financial Services, Manufacturing, Telecom and […]
The Evans Data Corporation recently released Big Data & Advanced Analytics Survey 2015v2, some excerpts of the report was carried in this article by Louis Columbus that appeared in Forbes, titled “2015 Big Data Market Update“. I’ve tried to highlight some of the findings here, Industries that are in the forefront of creating BigData apps […]
More and more companies have started using Business Intelligence tools to answer the question “Why” things happen the way they happen, while earlier the traditional use of a BI tool was to inform what happened, is happening or will happen in the future. If BI tools can be used to answer the “Why” question it […]
Here is the part 2 of the series on Tableau BI platform. Tableau Dashboards Using Tableau, users can create interactive real time dashboards and stories. Dashboards are a combination of individual data visualizations. Tableau Dashboards have data visualization best practices built in. Users can interact with a dashboard by filtering data, drilling down on specific […]
In this blog series we plan to feature some popular BI platforms, in the first of the two-part series we bring to you Tableau. Tableau is a visualization tool with a focus on Business Intelligence. It is built on the Visual Query Language for Data, pioneered by tableau as VizQL™. VizQL™ is a technology that […]
The movement from in-person to on-line banking and the regulatory requirement to maintain historical data has lead to huge and diverse volume of data being collected by Banks and financial institutions. In simple terms, data collected by banks is estimated to grow by 76% in 12-18 months. Though challenging, this exponential growth in volume, variety […]
Many Business Intelligence marketers have been moving onto the term “Business Analytics” but users are confused what exactly is Business Analytics and how does it differ from Business Intelligence. My search took me to this blog by Justin Heinze, “Business Intelligence vs. Business Analytics: What’s The Difference?” out of the seven expert definitions, I liked […]
A recent Google security research (beware: good read but VERY detailed) analyzed the differences in the security practices of “non-experts” and “experts” in the field of information security. The paper outlines the results of two surveys—one with 231 security experts, and another with 294 web-users who aren’t security experts—in which Google researchers asked both groups what […]
Like me, have you always thought, to have any meaningful business intelligence dashboard your company should be moderately big (in terms of data generation)? Here is an article which argues for BI dashboards for small business, pretty effectively. “Why Small Businesses Need A Business Intelligence Dashboard” (link - http://cloudtweaks.com/2015/06/small-business-intelligence-dashboard/) The article goes on to say […]
Information graphics or infographics represents Data/Information in a visual form that helps in processing that infomation quickly and clearly however complex the data may be. Two such Big Data infographics that caught my eye while I was going through this article – “Top Big Data Infographics From The Past Year” (http://businessintelligence.com/bi-insights/top-big-data-infographics-from-the-past-year/) are here below. The […]