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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…
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…
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.…
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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KeyLines is a JavaScript software development kit (SDK) for rapidly building applications to visualize and analyze complex graph data.Graph data is everywhere - in financial transactions, communications records, IT networks and beyond. The best way to understand it is to visualize…
Data Play places the needs of researchers in the center. DataPlay is a software solution that automates data management, analysis, and reporting. It is a cloud enforced application designed to cut the time spent on repetitive tasks. DataPlay applications empower researchers with…
The Insights Platform from PwC is presented as a cloud-based web app, accessed through SSO, that aims to put a company on the fast track to a secure analytics pipeline with signals users can use to control an organization’s future, right now.
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Curio, from GrayMeta in Los Angeles, unlocks information hidden inside assets such as words, images, logos, sounds and noises, faces and people and by leveraging machine learning and AI services to enrich these assets with DNA level metadata.
Nevron Software in Wilmington offers their Nevron Office suite of applications, containing Nevron Writer word processor (billed as an alternative to Microsoft Word) and Nevron Calendar schedule management app and event organizer.
Synthetaic provides an end-to-end AI pipeline, combining unsupervised and generative AI with integrated modeling workflow.
Kanban Board is a productivity app to visualize Dynamics 365 CRM data in a Kanban View. Records are categorized and systematically arranged in compact movable cards in multiple lanes and rows for quick review and easy analysis. Further, it helps to update the underlying field values…
For producers of data, research and analysis to scale up their outputs and build trust with customers, Glass, by Gavurin, brings automation and governance to the heart of any content production process. Glass allows users to publish content with more visibility – gaining access to…
TruBI from Datamatics offers an enterprise business intelligence platform that supports self-service analysis, 360-degree view of a single-version-of-truth, and provides an interactive experience.
igraph is a collection of network analysis tools. igraph can be programmed in R, Python, C/C++, and Mathematica.
Biuwer is a cloud-based Business Data Analytics platform that helps analyze business data and create reports and dashboards to inform decision-making. It aims to enable users to create and share reports, even if they have no technical knowledge. The vendor states Biuwer is specially…
Data scientists, analysts, architects, and developers can use the Tom Sawyer Graph Database Browser to see connections in five unique graph layouts, view social networks, and perform graph analytics. The web application supports Amazon Neptune, Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB, Neo4j, Apache…
Twenty-first century design and manufacturing depend on digital transformation. That's why model-based systems engineering (MBSE) and diagram automation are taking off. Tom Sawyer aims to help users transform model definitions into rigorous, customized, user-friendly, and highly…
Seekwell, now from ThoughtSpot (acquired April, 2021) is presented as a data analytics and visualization tool for analysts and product managers who are looking to share SQL across their team, write SQL faster, and automate reports in Google Sheets. Seekwell connects SQL databases…
InscriptaDesigner is platform for digital genome engineering, offering an automated workflow that enables parallel, trackable editing of single cells.
Smart eVision Dashboard: Executive Dashboard and IoT Monitoring Smart eVision Dashboard provides users with actionable insights from enterprise data. Users can view insights on its dashboard presenter: the Cockpit, which can be exported as interactive PPT files for users to…
Veritone Essentials consists of four AI-enabled applications, powered by aiWARE, that allow users to search, analyze, and share information. With Essentials, users can search a broadcast in near real-time, set up alerts for content and topics, automate air-checks, and track and verify…
3RDI is an enterprise search software solution that is designed to help users face a range of challenges from managing and exploiting unstructured content to deriving deeper actionable insights for boosting their business. According to the vendor, it is a powerful and scalable platform…
Active Intelligence Server (AIS) is a feature-rich Reporting Server used by millions of users from various open source reporting communities, i.e. BIRT, Jaspersoft and Pentaho. Users can deploy new and existing reports onto AIS. The vendor says AIS's self service BI capabilities…
SyncFirst turns text documents, PDFs, formatted ASCII files and electronic reports into usable data tables. Once the information is captured in a table, users can create filters to view subsets of the data, sort the table on any combination of fields, create summaries that show totals…
PlayerXP is a community intelligence platform that uses machine learning and natural processing techniques to create a tool specifically tailored to the games industry. Player XP gathers players' feedback from message boards, user reviews & social data and presents it in of this…
BizViz Analytics Platform is a business intelligence solution that is designed to serve any vertical, and provides a 360° view of a organization’s data. This solution includes tools for creating dashboards, business apps, and geospatial analysis. It is comprised of a variety of modules…
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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.