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Visual Discovery Tools: Market Segmentation and Product Positioning
This report explores the market for in-memory visualization tools, which provide speed-of-thought analysis to power users and interactive departmental dashboards to casual users. Visual discovery tools straddle top-down and bottom-up approaches to bu... E-Chapter
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Dashboard tools lighten burdens on business users, but not BI teams
Building effective business intelligence dashboards can be a difficult task. Make sure you're ready to get the most out of your BI dashboard software. Feature
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Don't get taken for a ride on mobile dashboard development
Designers creating BI dashboards for mobile devices must balance the need for functionality with expectations of an optimized mobile user experience. Feature
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Clutter, data overload put dashboard designs on path to failure
Keep your BI dashboard project on track by avoiding common mistakes, such as design gimmicks, cluttered screens and irrelevant data. Feature
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For good BI dashboard design, utility trumps glitz
When designing business intelligence dashboards, BI teams should focus on functionality and data accessibility instead of unneeded bells and whistles. Feature
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Data visualisation tools evolve with big data
The world of data analysis is changing, as is data visualisation. Learn about recent and emerging data visualisation tools and principles Tip
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Visualizing data forces BI teams to take a deep look at corporate info
Data visualizations have become key components of BI applications. But there's more than meets the eye to enabling end users to "see" information. Feature
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Data visualizations get more advanced -- and more complicated
With data visualization tools offering more and more functionality, managing projects to visualize data is becoming a bigger challenge for BI teams. Feature
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Data visualisation success hinges on solid storytelling skills
Tableau's Jock Mackinlay explains why data is inert and worthless without the twin practices of visualisation and storytelling. Interview
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BI dashboards help South Leicestershire College track performance
A college administrator discusses the steps to implementing a BI and dashboard product at her college in central England to help decision making. Feature
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Mobile BI sparks recast of business intelligence
Mobile BI constitutes an entirely new usage paradigm, says the TDWI: one which fundamentally recasts how, when and where people interact with and consume information. Feature
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From 4GLs to HTML5 desktop apps: Bringing data to the masses
Advocating wider access to data, speakers at the Information Builders Summit 2013 traced a journey from 4GL tools to HTML5 desktop apps and beyond. Talking Data | 14 Jun 2013
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Public-private partnership company MAMG chooses Intuitive Dashboards
Public-private partnership company MAMG has implemented Intuitive Dashboards, integrated with OpenAccounts financial reporting software News | 07 May 2013
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Lucky Voice karaoke chain uses data visualisation to see what’s sung
Karaoke chain Lucky Voice turns to Tableau to visualise its partying customers Case study | 12 Mar 2013
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Report's advice, rankings outline data visualization platform market
A new report outlines the characteristics to consider in a data visualization platform, and the questions to ask before investing. News | 01 Aug 2012
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Location intelligence involves more than maps
BI tools support the use of maps for visualizing data, but location intelligence systems go much further in enabling users to manipulate and analyze spatial data, says TechTarget's Wayne Eckerson. Analysis | 25 Jul 2012
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As tag clouds die off, businesses seek new ways to visualize text
Tag clouds are dead, according to the presenters at the eighth annual Text Analytics Summit who made a case for advanced text visualization techniques. News | 22 Jun 2012
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IT bottlenecks drive data visualization tool purchases
Allstate, Autodesk, MGM Resorts and Great Western Bank share the secrets to data visualization tools’ success. News | 23 May 2012
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Triumvirate of tools key to effective BI processes
TechTarget's Wayne Eckerson says business intelligence systems should include reporting, dashboard and visual discovery software -- be it from one vendor or multiple suppliers. Analysis | 21 May 2012
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QlikView goes enterprise, but much work still to do
QlikTech is pushing hard into enterprise BI with its QlikView software, says TechTarget's Wayne Eckerson. But, he adds, more upgrades are needed to make QlikView a bona fide BI platform. Analysis | 03 May 2012
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Startup launches 'temporal analytics' engine to visualize Web
A small startup has developed a “temporal analytics” engine, which sifts 100,000 Web pages an hour, extracting data and associating it to time. But can it also predict the future? News | 20 Feb 2012
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Strategies for de-cluttering business intelligence dashboard designs
Expert Brian Jordan shows business intelligence managers how to avoid developing dashboards that overwhelm business users with too much information. Tip
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Which users can benefit from BI dashboards and scorecards?
Are businesses deploying business intelligence dashboards and scorecards to workers other than managers and senior executives? Learn about high-level dashboards and who gets use out of dashboards and scorecards. Answer
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Unheralded BI tools in the business intelligence software market
Learn about some BI tools in the business intelligence software market that don’t get the credit they deserve, including ETL and data management tools. Answer
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location intelligence (LI)
Location intelligence (LI) is a business analysis tool capability that enables companies to gather geographic- and location-related data to better understand global, regional and local business trends. Definition
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collaborative BI (collaborative business intelligence)
Collaborative BI (collaborative business intelligence) is the merging of business intelligence software with collaboration tools, including social and Web 2.0 technologies, to support improved data-driven decision making. Definition
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data point
A data point is a discrete unit of information. In a general sense, any single fact is a data point. Definition
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Wixom: BI applications need visual appeal
Business intelligence teams should upgrade their visual design skills to create winning applications for BI users, says IT professor Barbara Wixom. Video
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Common mistakes to avoid on BI dashboard and scorecard projects
If you’re managing a BI dashboard or scorecard design project, make sure you know about the mistakes that others have made. Podcast
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Dashboard editors streamline 'busy' dashboards and spur user adoption
Dashboards cluttered with confusing gauges and dials aren't good for anyone. Baseline Consulting's Steve Putman says a dashboard editor can clean up 'busy' dashboards and spur user adoption. Podcast
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From 4GLs to HTML5 desktop apps: Bringing data to the masses
Advocating wider access to data, speakers at the Information Builders Summit 2013 traced a journey from 4GL tools to HTML5 desktop apps and beyond. Talking Data
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Strategies for de-cluttering business intelligence dashboard designs
Expert Brian Jordan shows business intelligence managers how to avoid developing dashboards that overwhelm business users with too much information. Tip
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Public-private partnership company MAMG chooses Intuitive Dashboards
Public-private partnership company MAMG has implemented Intuitive Dashboards, integrated with OpenAccounts financial reporting software News
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Wixom: BI applications need visual appeal
Business intelligence teams should upgrade their visual design skills to create winning applications for BI users, says IT professor Barbara Wixom. Video
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Lucky Voice karaoke chain uses data visualisation to see what’s sung
Karaoke chain Lucky Voice turns to Tableau to visualise its partying customers Case study
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Visual Discovery Tools: Market Segmentation and Product Positioning
This report explores the market for in-memory visualization tools, which provide speed-of-thought analysis to power users and interactive departmental dashboards to casual users. Visual discovery tools straddle top-down and bottom-up approaches to bu... E-Chapter
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Dashboard tools lighten burdens on business users, but not BI teams
Building effective business intelligence dashboards can be a difficult task. Make sure you're ready to get the most out of your BI dashboard software. Feature
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Don't get taken for a ride on mobile dashboard development
Designers creating BI dashboards for mobile devices must balance the need for functionality with expectations of an optimized mobile user experience. Feature
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Clutter, data overload put dashboard designs on path to failure
Keep your BI dashboard project on track by avoiding common mistakes, such as design gimmicks, cluttered screens and irrelevant data. Feature
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For good BI dashboard design, utility trumps glitz
When designing business intelligence dashboards, BI teams should focus on functionality and data accessibility instead of unneeded bells and whistles. Feature
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About Data visualization software
The enterprise data visualization market is crowded with vendors offering technologies that promise to help users visualize data. To make sure you're up to date on data visualization software, get news, tips and other information on data visualization tools that support visual analysis, visual business intelligence and collaborative visualization. Learn about data visualization technology, including performance management dashboard tools and software supporting data mining and multidimensional data visualization and other advanced data visualization techniques. Read news stories about developments by data visualization vendors, and get tips and advice from business intelligence experts on evaluating, selecting and deploying corporate dashboard software and other data visualization applications.