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

US Consumer Law Attorney Rates

According to the United States Consumer Law Attorney Fee survey report “Consumer Law is recognized as a specialty area of law1 dealing with issues arising from transactions involving one or more persons acting as individuals or as a family. It typically includes the legal fields of bankruptcy, credit discrimination, consumer banking, warranty law, unfair and … Read more

What is the most dangerous food at Olive Garden?

Olive Garden is one of the favorite destination for Italian food and today we got hold of the entire Olive Garden menu along with their nutrition data. A typical meal at Olive Garden starts with a drink, appetizers [free bread sticks], main dish and finally the desert. So going in the same sequence let see … Read more

List of acquisitions by Microsoft – a data journey

Microsoft was established in 1975 and it went public in 1986 [in about 11 years] Microsoft’s first acquisition was in 1987 and it has purchased an average of six companies a year. Microsoft has made eight acquisitions worth over one billion dollars: Skype (2011), aQuantive (2007), Fast Search & Transfer (2008), Navision (2002), Visio Corporation … Read more

Popularity of Tea, Coffee, Beer and Wine – Visualization

If number of searches were an indicator for gauging the popularity of a drink between Tea, Coffee, Beer and Wine then who wins the contest? Let us analyze who wins the popularity contest by comparing the number of searches for each of the terms. Data collection method: Each of the keywords Tea, Coffee, Beer and … Read more