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Power View empowered practical Smart Client applications 28 Apr 2012 | 09:44 am
SQL Server 2012 and its new Reporting Services Add-in Power View for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 enabled new Data Visualization features for Smart Client applications. Even famous Hans Rosling Da...
Tableau vs Qlikview and Tableau vs Spotfire 1 Apr 2012 | 07:43 am
Visitors to PRACTICAL Blog who concerned about Data Analytics, often asking PRACTICAL for Vendor-to-Vendor and Tool-vs-Tool comparison of the most advanced Data Visualization technologies. Most popula...
Data, Story, View: Prototype and Update 1 Mar 2012 | 07:20 am
Data, Story and Eye Candy. Data Visualization has at least 3 parts: largest will be a Data, the most important part will be a Story behind those Data and a View (or Visualization) is an Eye Candy on ...
2012 starts with Tableau 7.0 29 Jan 2012 | 01:26 pm
Tableau 7.0 is released in January 2012 with 40+ new features. Most interesting for me is the doubling of the performance and the scalability of Tableau Server with 100+ users deployments (while addi...
SQL Server 2012 is good for Data Visualization 1 Jan 2012 | 07:59 am
SQL Server 2012 is almost here... It is my view that 80% of Data Visualization (DV) is …Data. And technology and process of how these Data collected, extracted, transformed and loaded into DV backend...
Spotfire 4.0 is available 27 Nov 2011 | 02:11 pm
TIBCO made available for download the Spotfire 4.0 for its customers with a lot of new features. For example I like how Spotfire implements sparklines and KPIs: Some of new features defined in fuzzy ...
Introduction of QlikView 11 12 Nov 2011 | 05:11 am
Qlikview 11 I expected Qlikview 11 to be released on 11/11/11, but it was announced on 10/11/11 ( one year after 10/10/10, the release date of Qlikview 10) and not release yet as of today. Qliktech ...
VisiCalc jubilee and history of Excel 20 Oct 2011 | 11:32 am
Spreadsheets (VisiCalc was released by Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston in October 1979 - 32 years ago - originally for Apple II computer and then were releases of Lotus 1-2-3, Excel etc.) were one of t...
Data Visualization 2011: Omniscope 2.6 7 Oct 2011 | 12:11 pm
Omniscope 2.6 is finally about to be released (after more then 2 years of delays) by Visokio, located in UK. Omniscope will run on Windows (as well as on Mac): all it needs is Java (if needed, a priv...
Data Visualization 2011: Spotfire 3.3, Silver 2.0 11 Sep 2011 | 01:11 am
In May 2011 TIBCO released Spotfire 3.3 and first that jumped to my eyes was how mature this product is. For example, among new features is improved scalability - each additional simultaneous user o...
