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OMB Data Visualization Tool Requirements Analysis:

Logi Analytics

Dr. Brand NiemannDirector and Senior Data Scientist

Semantic Communityhttp://semanticommunity.info/

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

July 24, 2013http://semanticommunity.info/Data_Science/Free_Data_Visualization_and_Analysis_Tools/Logi_Analytics

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Background• DRAFT White Paper for OMB Pittsburgh, July 11, 2013.• Start With the End in Mind, Avoid Tool and Turf 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 and Challengers on Common Data Sets.

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

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

• Logi Analytics Is a Challenger in the Gartner Magic Quadrant.

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Gartner BI Magic Quadrant:Logi Analytics

Logi Analytics Strengths and Cautions Excerpts

• Logi Analytics’s BI platform is sold as a single platform, which is based on core or CPU with no limitations on user numbers. The platform includes reporting, analysis and dashboards for IT and business users, plus data integration.

• The company includes interfaces for business users and IT developers to create reports and dashboards. However, its IT-oriented, rapid development environment seems to be most compelling for its customers.

• While Logi Analytics has an above-average overall product rating, its sweet spot is clearly static and parameterized reporting and dashboards, which are used by the majority of its customers.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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Logi Analytics: Home Page

http://www.logianalytics.com/

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Logi Analytics: Free Trial

http://www.logianalytics.com/start-your-free-trial

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Logi Analytics: Client

http://www.logianalytics.com/Installation%20Video/Installation%20Video.html

My Note: Requires IIS and .NET to be Installed on Your PC.

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Logi Analytics: Embedded Analytics

http://www.logianalytics.com/oem-solutions/embedded-analytics-success-gallery

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Logi Analytics: Dashboards

http://www.logianalytics.com/visual-gallery

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Logi Analytics: Developer Network

http://devnet.logixml.com/rdPage.aspx?rdReport=DocsListingInfo

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Logi Analytics: New Application

http://devnet.logixml.com/rdPage.aspx?rdReport=Article&dnDocID=0204

My Note: This is the Same Nwind Data Set Used in QlikView.

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Nwind Database: Spotfire

https://silverspotfire.tibco.com/us/library#/users/bniemann/Public?Nwind-Spotfire

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Some Conclusions and Recommendations

• Semantic Community Has Already Built the Nwind Database Demo in Spotfire for QlikView.

• Logi Analytics Requires the IIS Web Server and .NET To Be On Your PC and Provides Very Elementary Excel Templates.

• MindTouch and Spotfire Are More Versatile Than Logi Analytics 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.