Data Discovery and Visualization Platforms

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Sigma Computing

Sigma Computing headquartered in San Francisco provides a suite of data services such as code free data modeling, data search and explorating, and related BI and data visualization services.

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Spotfire

Spotfire® is a data visualization platform that utilizes predictive analytics. In addition to data viz, it includes data wrangling capabilities, predictive analytics, location analytics, and real-time streaming analytics. Spotfire® is a business unit of Cloud Software Group, formerly…

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GoodData

GoodData is a cloud-based data and analytics platform, bringing AI-fueled data-driven decision-making to organisations across the globe. With a platform that leverages the potential of automation and AI, GoodData empowers its customers to make data analytics available to end users…

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Qlik Sense

Qlik Sense® is a self-service BI platform for data discovery and visualization. It supports a full range of analytics use cases—data governance, pixel-perfect reporting, and collaboration. Its Associative Engine indexes and connects relationships between data points for creating…

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IBM Cognos Analytics

IBM Cognos is a full-featured business intelligence suite by IBM, designed for larger deployments. It comprises Query Studio, Reporting Studio, Analysis Studio and Event Studio, and Cognos Administration along with tools for Microsoft Office integration, full-text search, and dashboards.…

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Spotfire

Spotfire® is a data visualization platform that utilizes predictive analytics. In addition to data viz, it includes data wrangling capabilities, predictive analytics, location analytics, and real-time streaming analytics. Spotfire® is a business unit of Cloud Software Group, formerly…

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Qlik Sense

Qlik Sense® is a self-service BI platform for data discovery and visualization. It supports a full range of analytics use cases—data governance, pixel-perfect reporting, and collaboration. Its Associative Engine indexes and connects relationships between data points for creating…

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Tableau Desktop

Tableau Desktop is a data visualization product from Tableau. It connects to a variety of data sources for combining disparate data sources without coding. It provides tools for discovering patterns and insights, data calculations, forecasts, and statistical summaries and visual…

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Sigma Computing

Sigma Computing headquartered in San Francisco provides a suite of data services such as code free data modeling, data search and explorating, and related BI and data visualization services.

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Microsoft Power BI

Microsoft Power BI is a visualization and data discovery tool from Microsoft. It allows users to convert data into visuals and graphics, visually explore and analyze data, collaborate on interactive dashboards and reports, and scale across their organization with built-in governance…

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IBM Cognos Analytics

IBM Cognos is a full-featured business intelligence suite by IBM, designed for larger deployments. It comprises Query Studio, Reporting Studio, Analysis Studio and Event Studio, and Cognos Administration along with tools for Microsoft Office integration, full-text search, and dashboards.…

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Tableau Server

Tableau Server allows Tableau Desktop users to publish dashboards to a central server to be shared across their organizations. The product is designed to facilitate collaboration across the organization. It can be deployed on a server in the data center, or it can be deployed on…

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SAP Lumira Discovery

SAP Lumira Discovery is SAP’s data visualization and discovery application. It facilitates data discovery, visualization, and analysis by assisting users with creation of dashboards, infographics, presentations, data facets, tag clouds, and more.

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Looker

Looker is a BI application with an analytics-oriented application server that sits on top of relational data stores. It includes an end-user interface for exploring data, a reusable development paradigm for data discovery, and an API for supporting data in other systems.

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QlikView

QlikView® is Qlik®’s original BI offering designed primarily for shared business intelligence reports and data visualizations. It offers guided exploration and discovery, collaborative analytics for sharing insight, and agile development and deployment.

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GoodData

GoodData is a cloud-based data and analytics platform, bringing AI-fueled data-driven decision-making to organisations across the globe. With a platform that leverages the potential of automation and AI, GoodData empowers its customers to make data analytics available to end users…

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Entrinsik Informer

Entrinsik Informer is a web-based reporting and business intelligence application popular in the higher education vertical market. It helps organizations transform real-time data into actionable information by delivering ad-hoc reporting, data analysis, and interactive dashboards.…

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ThoughtSpot

ThoughtSpot is an AI-Powered Analytics company, that aims to create a more fact-driven world with an easy to use analytics platform. ThoughtSpot enables users to leverage natural language search powered by large language models to ask and answer data questions. Users within an…

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Domo

Domo is a full self-service business intelligence software that combines several data analysis and reporting tools into one platform. It helps users connect to multiple data sources, create robust visual reports, manage their data, send messages in real-time, manage projects, and…

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Tableau Cloud

Tableau Cloud (formerly Tableau Online) is a self-service analytics platform that is fully hosted in the cloud. Tableau Cloud enables users to publish dashboards and invite colleagues to explore hidden opportunities with interactive visualizations and accurate data, from any browser…

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Google Charts

Google Charts provides a way to visualize data on your website - for free. From simple line charts to complex hierarchical tree maps, the chart gallery provides a large number of ready-to-use chart types. The most common way to use Google Charts is with simple JavaScript that you…

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Dundas BI

Dundas BI is a business intelligence and data visualization software that includes customizable dashboards, reporting, and visual data analytics. Dundas BI can be integrated into users’ existing business applications and its visualization and reporting tools can be customized to…

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Looker Studio

Looker Studio is a data visualization platform that transforms data into meaningful presentations and dashboards with customized reporting tools.

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Anaconda

Anaconda provides access to the foundational open-source Python and R packages used in modern AI, data science, and machine learning. These enterprise-grade solutions enable corporate, research, and academic institutions around the world to harness open-source for competitive advantage…

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Klipfolio

Klipfolio PowerMetrics is a metric-centric business intelligence platform. Data teams are able to bring all of their data together and create a catalog of verified metrics that end users are able to explore and visualize using self-serve dashboards and reports.

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Oracle Analytics Cloud

The Oracle Analytics Cloud service is a public cloud service that provides a full set of capabilities to explore and perform collaborative analytics.

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Epicor Grow

Grow, from Epicor since the March 2022 acquisition, is a business intelligence software that is designed to empower businesses to become data-driven and accelerate growth by aligning team objectives and inspiring strategic decisions.

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Chartio (discontinued)

Chartio is a visualization tool designed to enable anyone to explore, transform and visualize data on the fly through a drag-and-drop interface. Chartio was acquired by Atlassian in February 2021 so that it's capabilities could be integrated into the Atlassian product portfolio's…

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Cyfe, by Traject

Cyfe is all-in-one dashboard software for analyzing data from online services like Google Analytics, Salesforce, AdSense, MailChimp, Amazon, Facebook, etc, from Traject.

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JMP Statistical Discovery Software from SAS

JMP is a division of SAS and the JMP family of products provide statistical discovery tools linked to dynamic data visualizations.

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What are Data Visualization Tools?

Data visualization tools like Tableau, QlikView and Tibco Spotfire are designed for data analysts and technically-oriented business users. The focus of these tools is primarily ad-hoc analysis of multiple data sources by business users and analysts. These tools provide data analysts with an intuitive way to more easily visualize large volumes of data to graphically expose patterns and outliers hidden in the data.

Data visualization tools replace the traditional rows and columns of traditional data presentations with graphical pictures and charts. This view is ideal for early-stage analysis on data that can’t be interpreted by looking at the raw data, usually because the datasets are too big. Data visualization tools allow users to identify patterns visually before conducting more rigorous analysis.

These tools have been very successful, largely because of the low cost of implementation and because they do not require IT support. Ease of use is another key feature encouraging adoption. Visualization tools allow end users with some comfort level in data analysis to access multiple different data sources and display the results in visually compelling ways. They also attempt to minimize the amount of prior analytics knowledge the end-user needs to surface basic insights and business intelligence.

Data Discovery & Data Visualization

Data visualization capabilities are often found alongside data discovery capabilities. However, more specialized tools have also emerged to serve each distinct use case. Data discovery tools focus more on centralizing data accessibility across disparate sources. In contrast, visualization tools focus on the actual graphical analysis of said data. Business Intelligence platforms that emphasize self-serviceability unify the entire pipeline for organization-wide visibility into data and actionable business intelligence.

Free & Open Source Data Visualization Tools

There are a range of free, freemium, or open source data visualization tools. Many of the leading data visualization products, such as Tableau or Microsoft Power BI, have free versions for personal use. These can be helpful for individual power users that are not as concerned with data privacy or broader organizational use. However, Most organizations will need to pay for licenses, or take on more maintenance costs in the case of open source tools, in order to leverage a given tool across the business.

Data Visualization Features & Capabilities

  • Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots, etc.)
  • Location analytics / geographic visualization
  • Predictive analytics
  • Support for machine-learning models
  • Pattern recognition and data mining
  • Integration with R or other statistical packages

Data Visualization Tools Comparison

When comparing different data visualization tools, consider these factors:

  • Automated Insights: Many data visualization vendors advertise some kind of AI capabilities, but the effectiveness of these features will vary. Consider whether each tool will automatically surface insights based on the data being analyzed and make intelligent recommendations, as well as whether it can generate visualizations based on natural language queries.
  • Point Visualization Tool vs. BI Platform: Is the business’s specific need for a tool to easily and quickly visualize data for reporting, dashboarding, and presentations? Or is there a need for more advanced business intelligence and insights? A point solution is likely ideal for the first use case, while a broader BI platform may better serve the second situation.
  • Native Data Integrations: Does each product have prebuilt pipelines from your commonly-used data sources? This will greatly reduce the costs of implementation and maintenance over time if so.
  • Freemium Options: Do you need a visualization tool for personal or individual use, or is the product for the broader organization as well? In the former case, consider free or freemium versions of products that can save costs for individual users.

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Pricing Information

Data visualization pricing is usually per seat, per month. Vendors will also offer different tiers of pricing that unlock more advanced integrations with data sources, white glove support, and other features more valuable for larger organizations. On the other end, some products also offer free or freemium versions for individual users.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How are data visualization tools used?

Data visualization tools are used primarily to analyze data visually or report or present on data.

What’s the difference between data discovery tools and data visualization tools?

Data discovery focuses more on data accessibility, centralization, and governance from different sources, while data visualization focuses more on the early stages of the analysis itself.

Who uses data visualization tools?

They are primarily used by data analysts, but they are becoming more self-serviceable by line of business users.

What are the benefits of data visualization tools?

Data visualization tools allow analysts to more easily identify patterns and trends in data. They can also make visualizations more accessible for non-specialized users.

How are data visualization tools priced?

Data visualization tools are usually priced per seat or user, per month or year.