Tableau Desktop 9.1
Professional Edition
$ 1999 per user
Spotfire Desktop 7
$650 per user per year
Microstrategy Desktop 10
$600 per user
- 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.
- Test performance of the in-database processing engine
- Test visualization possibilities of geographical data
- Test existing APIs
- Use cases for data exploration?
- Hardware requirements on current work stations?
- Public data that is similar?