Weekly Delivery

Transport/SAFER

List of candidates

Tableau Desktop 9.1

Professional Edition

$ 1999 per user

Spotfire Desktop 7

$650 per user per year

Microstrategy Desktop 10

$600 per user

Spotfire

- Seems more research oriented than business

- Offers in-memory and in-database processing

- Connectors from many different data sources including Oracle

- Big data connectivity through Hadoop

- Very advanced analytics capabilities if needed.

- Has approached Tableau's ease of use challenge in recent version 7.0

- Provides APIs for JavaScript, Java, C++, C#, Python, R, Matlab etc..

- Visualizations of most commons charts including geoviz.

Next Week

- Test performance of the in-database processing engine

- Test visualization possibilities of geographical data

- Test existing APIs

Questions

- Use cases for data exploration?

- Hardware requirements on current work stations?

- Public data that is similar?