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Top Data Visualization Solution Companies

In this volatile business landscape where competition among companies has increased by leaps and bounds, organizations across the globe are not ready to leave a single stone unturned to have an edge in the market. To achieve this goal, businesses need to understand current market trends, customer demands, as well as anticipate those. Data is undoubtedly the key that, if leveraged in a streamlined manner, can open up a myriad of opportunities before enterprises. However, with the ever-increasing amount of data, the task of tapping value valuable insights from raw datasets has become more complicated. Also, reliance on traditional data visualization tools proves to be ineffective — for a plethora of reasons. The first one is the failure to maintain data quality. This significantly hampers the capability of making accurate and timely decisions. Also, unrefined datasets often oblige executives to make inappropriate business decisions that prove to be detrimental in the long run — undermining the fundamental purpose of data visualization.

Apart from this, siloed data appears as another major source of inefficiency. Enterprises need to hone their capability of integrating data from different sources (including real-time data), curating those, and leveraging dashboards as well as mobile platforms in everyday activities to overcome the challenge of data silos.

In the face of these challenges, organizations need to have a comprehensive understanding of their unique business problems, needs, and cutting-edge data visualization tools that are hitting the market on a regular basis. Otherwise, they will end up making only some hefty investments that will never bring the desired outcome.

With a comprehensive understanding of these requirements, CIOReview has compiled a list of the 20 most promising data visualization solution providers 2019 to guide organizations in harnessing the power of new-age technologies and experts to improve their efficiency.

We are glad to feature Washington-based Strategic Business Decisions Consulting as our cover story. The company enables organizations to capture, integrate, visualize, and analyze their data and tap valuable insights for making informed business decisions while unlocking hidden business opportunities. Most importantly, Strategic Business Decisions Consulting also makes sure that the data that is fed in the data visualization dashboard is accurate, reliable, and representative of the truth.

Additionally, we are featuring Illinois-based Saggezza. Leveraging modern, cognitive tools such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), cloud, data warehousing, data visualization, the company delivers advanced analytics and intelligence services. This empowers organizations to make better business decisions. Also, the company has been partnered with several major technology providers such as Snowflake, IBM Watson, Microsoft Power BI, Tableau.

With several innovative technological capabilities and success stories up their sleeve, these firms are continually proving their mettle in the data visualization solutions realm.

Top Data Visualization Solution Companies

Highsoft

OpenPro’s ERP software solutions deliver a flexible, scalable and fully featured management system for small business to enterprise corporations. The system’s modular design provides the ultimate in flexibility to clients. OpenPro can serve as a cost-effective small business account system, and has fully featured accounting software for manufacturing. OpenPro has the most up-to-date capabilities required for e-commerce software and is also a proven supply chain software provider. With OpenPro’s advanced features like document imaging; green paperless work flows; integrated bar coding; integrated phone systems; OCR reading to XML transactions; and multiple language and currency capabilities, they have saved their clients millions of dollars in operating efficiencies. OpenPro offers business software solutions for every company looking for more value and more features from their ERP software solution

Icimo

From their beginnings in 2010 to present, Icimo has dedicated themselves to service and continuing to strengthen their capabilities. They help both established and high growth organizations leverage their existing data to increase their return-on-investment (ROI) and consistently grow their business. Icimo is a Gold Tableau Software Partner and Alteryx Partner. Icimo makes data accessible, interactive and simple to understand. They help organization see and think differently about their data resulting in smarter decisions and better business outcomes

Nabler

Nabler helps enterprises and media agencies analyze digital data to understand customer behavior and enable revenue driving decisions. Founded in 2004, with offices in Charlotte and Bangalore, they have advised some of the top 100 global brands and Fortune 500 firms. They facilitate forecasting in Data Science using seasonal and non-seasonal drivers; detecting anomalies and structural shifts. With pattern detection they identify relevant data elements through pattern analysis, correlation analysis and anomaly detection to give you data quality validation. With feature design, they build features based on pattern identification level shift adjustments, Fourier transforms, associations and regressed features

Novarad

Novarad, a leader in healthcare IT and imaging solutions, was established in 1998. Headquartered in the heart of Salt Lake City’s technology corridor, Novarad enables healthcare providers to take control of their medical images through its full diagnostic suite. Ncompass Enterprise Imaging, along with user-configurable clinical workflow modules, gives facilities the solutions they need to accelerate the quality of care while assuring consistent and predictable costs. The innovative OpenSight augmented reality system overlays medical images directly onto the patient’s body in order to enable accurate registration for surgical planning. Novarad is a proud recipient of the Utah Genius Awards and the Utah Innovation Awards

Saggezza

Saggezza is a proven technology and management consulting partner that delivers personalized, high-value solutions to accelerate business growth. The company uses modern, cognitive tools such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), cloud, data warehousing, data visualization to deliver advanced analytics and intelligence services to help organizations make informed business decisions. Saggezza partners with several major technology providers such as Snowflake, IBM Watson, Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, and is also continuously evaluating emerging new tools in order to offer best-in-class services to its clients

Strategic Business Decisions Consulting

Strategic Business Decisions Consulting applies a reliable project management approach for building and managing visualization dashboards. They manage the end to end project lifecycle that includes facilitated visualization design workshops, capturing input from user, prototype design, accessing and cleaning the data, stabilizing and testing the dashboards, and maintaining and updating the dashboards. Further, they also train users and provide readiness materials on using the data visualization dashboards and identifying key insights

Alteryx

Revolutionizing business through data science and analytics, Alteryx offers an end-to-end analytics platform, which empowers data analysts and scientists alike to break data barriers, deliver insights, and experience the thrill of getting to the answer faster. Organizations all over the world rely on Alteryx daily to deliver actionable insights. Alteryx, Inc. is headquartered in Irvine (CA), and has 13 additional global offices: San Mateo (CA), Broomfield (CO), Dallas (TX), and Chicago (IL), Toronto (CAN), London (UK), Copenhagen (DK), Paris, Munich (DE), Prague (CZ), Tokyo, Singapore, and Sydney (AU)

Blacklight Solutions

Founded in 2009, Blacklight Solutions is an applied analytics solutions company based in Austin, Texas. Today, businesses are facing increasing operational demands around processing, managing, analyzing and applying data. Blacklight Solutions focuses on creating innovative solutions that help companies scale to meet these critical information management needs and find new applications for owned data streams. Blacklight Solutions’ applied analytics approach makes data integration and reporting easy so clients can focus on businesses performance. Data products they build can be embedded into client technology to create value by extending existing software applications or by generating additional revenue streams

Cloudera

Cloudera was founded in 2008 by some of the brightest minds at Silicon Valley’s leading companies, including Google (Christophe Bisciglia), Yahoo! (Amr Awadallah), Oracle (Mike Olson), and Facebook (Jeff Hammerbacher). The founders held at their core the belief that open source, open standards, and open markets are best. At Cloudera, they believe data can make what is impossible today, possible tomorrow. Cloudera is building the industry’s first enterprise data cloud — a modern data architecture, for a data-driven world. Only Cloudera can deliver that powerful combination of capabilities from the Edge to AI…and beyond

Datawatch Corporation [NASDAQ : DWCH]

Datawatch Corporation is the data intelligence solutions provider that will fuel your business. Datawatch can confidently position individuals and organizations to master all data — no matter the origin, format or narrative — resulting in faster time to insight. Datawatch solutions are architected to drive the use of more data, foster more trust and incorporate more minds into analytics and reporting projects. With over 25 years in business, organizations of all sizes in more than 100 countries worldwide use Datawatch products, including 93 of the Fortune 100. The company is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts, with offices in Toronto, New York, London, Stockholm, Singapore and Manila

Datorama

With Datorama, customers can automatically connect all their disparate marketing tools and reports in one centralized place, access and act on the right cross-channel KPIs, dashboards, reports and AI-powered insights, and optimize and report on every investment, performance, and outcome across the customer journey. Datorama powers marketing intelligence for thousands of brands, agencies and publishers globally including IBM, Nike, Ticketmaster, Viacom and Neo@Ogilvy. They have a global presence with 16 offices worldwide and were recently named a Gartner Cool Vendor and ranks #35 on the Deloitte Fast 500 list

EnergyWatch

EnergyWatch helps organizations reduce energy expenses, simplify energy reporting, and measure and verify performance through utility invoice analytics, utility budgeting and reporting, real-time consumption analytics, and energy procurement. The company’s proprietary, fully-integrated, cloud-based energy management program, watchwire, identifies and analyzes the interactive effects of operational and capital improvements on utility supply and delivery costs; measures, verifies, and reports on key performance indicators; and summarizes the results for key decision makers. They distill complex utility data and rate structures into actionable and meaningful results for their clients

FTI Consulting

FTI Consulting is an independent global business advisory firm dedicated to helping organizations manage change, mitigate risk and resolve disputes: financial, legal, operational, political & regulatory, reputational and transactional. Individually, each practice is a leader in its specific field, staffed with experts recognized for the depth of their knowledge and a track record of making an impact. Collectively, FTI Consulting offers a comprehensive suite of services designed to assist clients across the business cycle — from proactive risk management to the ability to respond rapidly to unexpected events and dynamic environments

Information Builders

Information Builders provides the industry’s most scalable software solutions for data management and analytics. They help organizations operationalize and monetize their data through insights that drive action. Information Builders’ integrated platform for business intelligence (BI), analytics, data integration, and data quality, combined with their proven expertise, delivers value faster, with less risk. The company believes that data and analytics are the drivers of digital transformation, and they are on a mission to help customers capitalize on new opportunities in the connected world. Information Builders is headquartered in New York, NY, with global offices, and remains one of the largest privately held companies in the industry

Interstates Control Systems, Inc

Interstates offers electrical construction, electrical engineering, and control systems services. For over fifty years, they have tackled complex challenges and developed innovative solutions for industrial manufacturing and processing facilities around the world. What started out as a small electric company, has evolved into an organization with over 800 employees and multiple locations throughout the Midwest. Interstates has created a collaborative workplace based on trust, integrity, and support. Using software defined networking, NIST components, and cloud-based modules, they combine the latest Operational Technology (OT) with a team that proactively monitors an organization’s system and neutralizes potential threats

MapR Technologies

MapR Technologies, provider of the industry’s next generation data platform for AI and Analytics, enables enterprises to inject analytics into their business processes to increase revenue, reduce costs, and mitigate risks. MapR addresses the data complexities of high-scale and mission critical distributed processing from the cloud to the edge, IoT analytics, and container persistence. Global 2000 enterprises trust the MapR Data Platform to help them solve their most complex AI and analytics challenges. Amazon, Cisco, Google, Microsoft, SAP and other leading businesses are all part of the MapR ecosystem

MicroStrategy [Nasdaq: MSTR]

In 1989, MicroStrategy was founded on the principle that the future belongs to organizations that effectively harness the power of their data. This vision has driven them from day one to deliver world-class software and services that redefine what’s possible and help transform customers on their journey to becoming the Intelligent Enterprise. MicroStrategy (Nasdaq: MSTR) is a worldwide leader in enterprise analytics and mobility software. A pioneer in the BI and analytics space, MicroStrategy delivers innovative software that empowers people to make better decisions and transform the way they do business. They provide enterprise customers with world-class software and expert services so they can deploy unique intelligence applications

PARIS Technologies International

PARIS Technologies develops and delivers software solutions that provide the highest levels of Connectivity, Collaboration and Governance — connectivity across database systems; collaboration among users with their tool of choice (Excel, BI products, web, mobile); governance of secure, single-source, non-proprietary data models. For over 20 years they have worked with customers around the world to implement exceptional Planning, Analytics, Reporting Information Systems — the PARIS acronym. Their solutions lead to unprecedented gains in productivity, transforming data into actionable knowledge and providing critical insights to key staff all the way up to the C-suite. Our products are graceful, powerful and robust, and make business intelligence dynamically available in the tools people prefer to use

Simpleview

Simpleview helps destination marketing organizations (DMOs) succeed on every front, from convention sales to tourism marketing and day-to-day operations. The company offers integrated products and services, including the industry’s most advanced customer relationship management (CRM) and content management system (CMS) platforms, powerful forecasting and reporting tools, dynamic websites, sites for mobile web, search engine optimization and interactive marketing. Founded in 1991, Simpleview employs more than 220 people with offices in Arizona, Texas, Minnesota and California who serve more than 540 domestic and international DMOs

Tableau Software[NYSE:DATA]

Tableau Software helps people see and understand data. Offering a revolutionary new approach to business intelligence, Tableau allows clients to quickly connect, visualize, and share data with a seamless experience from the PC to the iPad. Companies can create and publish dashboards and share them with colleagues, partners, or customers — no programming skills required. When it comes to elevating people with the power of data, only Tableau combines a laser focus on how people see and understand data with the kind of robust, scalable platform you need to run even the world’s largest organizations. From connection through collaboration, Tableau is the most powerful, secure, and flexible end-to-end analytics platform for an organization’s data

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How the Internet Kept Humming During 2 Hurricanes

By James Glanz, NY Times, Sept. 18, 2017

At one node of the industrial backbone that keeps the internet running, employees sheltered from the worst of Hurricane Irma in a stairwell of a seven-story building in downtown Miami. When the power had gone out, diesel generators instantly kicked in to keep the lights on and prevent the internet from going down.

In Houston, at another of these nodes, called data centers, Hurricane Harvey pushed waters so high that a live fish flopped in a loading dock, but the physical defenses held.

Yet another data center, west of Houston, was so well prepared for the storm--with backup generators, bunks and showers--that employees’ displaced family members took up residence and United States marshals used it as a headquarters until the weather passed.

“It wasn’t Noah’s ark, but it was darn close,” said Rob Morris, managing partner and co-founder of Skybox, the company that runs the center.

For all their seeming immateriality, the internet and the cloud rely on a vast industrial infrastructure consisting of data centers linked through a sprawling network of fiber optics. The facilities are stacked with servers--boxlike computers that crunch the data for everything from hospitals, law enforcement agencies and banks to news websites, email and weather reports--that cannot be without electricity and cooling for even a fraction of a second.

Yet even as millions of people lost power across Florida, and thousands of homes and businesses were flooded out in Miami and Texas, the heavy digital machinery at the heart of the internet and the cloud held firm.

Though the storm disabled some cellphone towers and local connections, Jeff Eassey, a manager for Digital Realty who hunkered down in the Miami building, said the center never stopped processing and transmitting data. It lost utility power around 8:30 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 10, but supplied its own electricity with the generators.

When the storm eased and he walked outside, Mr. Eassey said, he immediately saw the effect that Digital Realty and other data centers had by keeping the servers going. “Everyone was talking on their phones, searching on their phones, and commerce that uses the internet to do their business was up and running,” he said.

A list of Digital Realty’s top customers shows why those operations are so important: Clients include IBM, Facebook, CenturyLink, Oracle, Yahoo, Morgan Stanley, AT&T and JPMorgan Chase, among others.

Inside the centers, the drill during a natural disaster can be overwhelming. One company, EdgeConneX, lost utility power for three days at a Miami data center, two days at a center in Jacksonville, Fla., and two days at an Atlanta location. But Rich Werner, director of operations at the company, said that backup generators turned on and service was never interrupted.

“Data center operations, to me, is 362 days of boredom,” Mr. Werner said. “And then you get these hurricanes coming through, and it’s three days of pulling your hair out.”

There are no legal standards for data centers unless they house servers for clients like government agencies, which require special protections.

But a professional organization, the Seattle-based Uptime Institute, rates the facilities on four tiers of resiliency for events like storms, earthquakes and run-of-the-mill power failures--possibly one reason the internet performed creditably during the hurricanes. The institute’s engineers “go to the site and pull the plug,” said Mark Harris, senior vice president of marketing, “and to be certified, it has to keep running.”

“So when a hurricane or a tornado or an ice storm happens, the entire data center has been designed to withstand these external factors,” he said.

During Harvey and Irma, those measures seemed to work, said Doug Madory, director of internet analysis at Dyn, a web performance company with servers at a Miami data center. “I’m not aware of any core internet services going down,” he said.

One necessity is building above the 500-year floodplain, according to Gary Wojtaszek, president of CyrusOne, whose facilities include a data center in the mostly flooded Galleria area of Houston. The water stopped a few feet short of the building, which ran on backup power for several hours, Mr. Wojtaszek said. He added that “practically every single large oil and gas company in the world” operates servers in its data centers--an indication of how commerce of all kind relies on the facilities.

Depending on local conditions, some centers got off easier than others. In Houston facilities run by Data Foundry, automated systems worked so well that employees pooled resources and watched the Floyd Mayweather-Conor McGregor fight on pay-per-view, said Edward Henigin, the company’s chief technology officer. When everything is working, he said, “what else are they going to do?”

Everyone in the business says that extensive preparation is critical. James M. Palmieri, Digital Realty’s vice president for data center operations, said that as Irma approached the building in Miami, engineers topped off diesel generators, called Mr. Eassey down from Atlanta to direct operations and waited to see how strong the hurricane would become.

“The storm got worse,” Mr. Palmieri said, adding that at that point, “the real issue is, how do we make sure that our employees are protected?”

Mr. Eassey said that about 14 people in the building--including employees, customers and security personnel--met in a sixth-floor conference room that Friday morning and realized that the worsening conditions, heavy traffic and overcrowded shelters in the area meant it was too late to leave. With reinforced concrete walls and heavy glass, the building was the safest place to be, they decided. The mood was calm.

“Most of these guys are seasoned Miamians,” Mr. Eassey said. “I was the out-of-towner. I would be exaggerating if I said anyone was nervous or panicked.”

The peak of the storm passed over the weekend, and when the power went out, the center was ready with diesel generators and a 10,500-gallon diesel tank on the site.

In Houston’s so-called energy corridor, the Skybox campus stayed above water, Mr. Morris said. Utility power never went down. But the site was stocked with thousands of gallons of diesel fuel, as well as food and water, emergency medical kits, showers, bunk rooms and flares.

The site, which Mr. Morris calls a “modern-day fortress,” began hosting not only employees but several of their families, whose houses were flooded. Then, Mr. Morris said, the building doubled as an emergency response center for the United States marshals. He said that roughly 50 people used or stayed on the campus at one point or another during the storm.

Asked if there were anything in his operations that he would change before the next storm hit, Mr. Morris did not hesitate. “We’ve decided to purchase a washer and dryer to keep on site,” he said.

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