Spotfire takes a unique approach to business intelligence (BI) in three ways. It’s designed to be immersive, smart, and real time. I’ll explain each, beginning with immersive BI. Immersive Modern BI tools have two common interaction modes: immersive exploration and dashboards. A dashboard is a visualization designed for a well-understood business purpose. For example, a … [Read more...] about 3 ways Spotfire is unique compared to other BI tools
Death of the snapshot and the birth of streaming BI
In the late 1800’s, Leland Stanford paid photographer Edward Muybridge to help him settle a bet that horses leave the ground as they run. It took years of failure and innovation, but Muybridge eventually created a technique using an array of cameras with tripwires to take high-speed snapshots of a horse as it ran by. Indeed, his snapshots (#2 and #3, above) prove that … [Read more...] about Death of the snapshot and the birth of streaming BI