Benefits of visualizations and analytics for small business owners

Small business owners are all about “Getting the biggest bang for the buck”. We as small biz owners want everything to work efficiently and make sure no resources are wasted that includes human resources, time and money. The question now is “How do you make sure your operation is efficient?” Not by any magic! But … Read more

How to draw a Sankey diagram

What is a sankey diagram? Sankey Diagram is kind of a flow chart that has multi-purpose use. It can be applied in lot of different domains. Even though they are popular to visualize manufacturing flow or energy flow diagrams, there are other domains like HR, Finance, Web analytics etc where you can find the benefit … Read more

Charting Engines vs Analytics Software vs Dashboard software

Every often we would get users asking us ‘How different is your dashboard software from XYZ Business Analytics?’ The XYZ spans across the entire Business Intelligence umbrella and often into the Website development and applicaton side as well. Some of the questions are like ‘How different is infocaptor dashboards from Tableau?” ‘How is it infocaptor … Read more

What is the true benefit of Dashboards or Business Intelligence software?

In fact, the question should be “What should be the true benefit of Dashboards or Business Intelligence software? ” Whether you are using dashboard in excel, Dashboards in Microsoft Access, Quickbooks, business objects, Salesforce or big ERP like Oracle EBS or SAP, there are numerous tangible benefits of using InfoCaptor as your primary BI and … Read more

Have we lost the true meaning and purpose of Business Intelligence?

Have we lost the true meaning and purpose of Business Intelligence Companies in a variety of industries are still data-rich but information-poor and this ratio keeps increasing every day. The rate of data generation is so high that organizations simply cannot keep up with generating insights out of it. These enterprises lack the kind of … Read more

List of Google acquisitions explained with visualizations

Google has acquired around 184 companies as of October 2015, with its largest acquisition being the purchase of Motorola Mobility, a mobile device manufacturing company, for $12.5 billion. Not all the acquisition figures are available but aggregating all the public known amounts, Google has spent atleast 28 billion USD on acquisitions. With the recent re-structuring, … Read more

How to standardize the look and feel of dashboards using CSS templates

Within InfoCaptor Dashboard software, every component is allowed to look different by providing different color schemes for background, border, text and the actual graphics. This gives lot of freedom for a creative designer. For average business users , we don’t need this much creative freedom, a standardized dashboard theme that looks aesthetically beautiful is more … Read more

Presidents of USA and their Birth Signs – Sankey Visualization

Wikipedia has a great dataset with regards to all the presidents of USA, their birth dates, birth States and birth signs (sun sign) In this analysis, we will visualize the relation between the Age at Presidency, State of Birth and birth sign. Sankey diagrams are extremely powerful at expressing flow and relationships. In the following … Read more

Create engaging visualization with brand new Sankey generator

Introducing brand new Sankey Visualizaton With the latest release of InfoCaptor, you can build Sankey Diagrams by just drag and drop operations. Sankey Visuals are one of the most powerful visualizations. It illustrates flows of any kind, where the width of each flow is based on its quantity. It gives complete bird’s eye view of … Read more