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OMB Data Visualization Tool Requirements Analysis: Information Builders

Dr. Brand NiemannDirector and Senior Data Scientist

Semantic Communityhttp://semanticommunity.info/

AOL Government Bloggerhttp://breakinggov.com/author/brand-niemann/

July 23, 2013http://semanticommunity.info/Data_Science/Free_Data_Visualization_and_Analysis_Tools/Information_Builders

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Background• DRAFT White Paper for OMB Pittsburgh, July 11, 2013.• Start With the End in Mind, Avoid Tool Wars, and Develop Well-

designed Spreadsheets That Can be “Dragged and Dropped” Onto a Tool That Creates Statistics and Visualizations in the Public and Private Clouds.

• Focus on Requirements Analysis by First Comparing Magic Quadrant Leaders on Common Data Sets.

• Spotfire Was Able to Reproduce Birst, Microsoft, QlikView, and Tableau Data Visualizations With Dynamically Linked Visualizations.

• Broaden This Requirements Analysis to Include More Sample Data Sets and Tools.

• Information Builders Is a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant.

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Gartner BI Magic Quadrant:Information Builders

Information Builders Strengths and Cautions Excerpts

• WebFocus is fully integrated with the firm's iWay integration platform, which provides adapters for multiple data sources, as well as data federation, profiling and quality capabilities, geocoding and real-time search index management, business activity monitoring, complex-event processing, file-based integration and master data management. This integration makes Information Builders a good fit for organizations without a data warehouse, and for operational reporting.

• A key challenge for Information Builders is to address its lack of a data discovery offering. • The WebFocus server has the intelligence to deliver content to any device while taking on

native gesturing and menu characteristics. • The only non-product-specific limitations related to an inability to gain user buy-in to an

enterprise approach. Nevertheless, almost two-thirds of respondents consider Information Builders to be the enterprise BI standard.

• Email:– Brand, Thanks for your interest in our products and services. We have successfully received your

request and it is currently being processed.– An Information Builders representative will be contacting you shortly.

• Sincerely, Kathy Drago, Services Director

Note: Bolding by the author to highlight key points.Source: http://www.gartner.com/technology/reprints.do?id=1-1DYKLUR&ct=130206&st=sb

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Information Builders: Home Page

http://www.informationbuilders.com/

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Information Builders: Demo

http://www.informationbuilders.com/demos

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Information Builders: Fraud

http://www.informationbuilders.com/demos/4699#Active Technologies

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Information Builders: Fraud Detected

http://mktdemos.informationbuilders.com:8080/approot/predictive/predicting_unemployment_fraud_Rstat.htmhttp://mktdemos.informationbuilders.com:8080/approot/predictive/predicting_unemployment_fraud_Rstat.pdf

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Information Builders: No Fraud Detected

http://mktdemos.informationbuilders.com:8080/approot/predictive/predicting_unemployment_fraud_Rstat.htm

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Information Builders: Comparison

http://mktdemos.informationbuilders.com:8080/approot/predictive/predicting_unemployment_fraud_Rstat.htm

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Information Builders: Detail

http://mktdemos.informationbuilders.com:8080/approot/predictive/predicting_unemployment_fraud_Rstat.htm

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Information Builders: Detail in Spreadsheet

http://semanticommunity.info/@api/deki/files/25122/InformationBuidlers.xlsx

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State and Local Government Unemployment Fraud: Cover Page

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State and Local Government Unemployment Fraud: Detail

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Some Conclusions and Recommendations

• Semantic Community Was Able to Build the State and Local Government Unemployment Fraud Information Builders Demo in Spotfire Using MindTouch and Excel.

• The Information Builders Detail Had to Be Screen-Scraped Into Excel to Use in Spotfire.

• MindTouch and Spotfire Are More Versatile Than Information Builders For Mashups.

• Semantic Community Will Continue to Use The Gartner BI Magic Quadrant Leader Tools and Their Sample Data Sets and to Recreate Visualizations and Dashboards.