A Simplified Approach to Powerful, Flexible Data Visualization
Lyndsay Wise - March 16, 2007

Data visualization tools allow organizations to integrate various best-of-breed offerings to create customized business intelligence (BI), performance management, and analytics-based solutions. For organizations that cannot afford enterprise BI solutions, or that require a subset of functionality, data visualization allows them to use specific analytics on the back-end, and to couple it with customized scorecards, dashboards, heat graphs, etc. to present statistical and performance-based data visually. This visual data representation, if used properly, ties back to an organization's strategic initiatives through the use of metrics and other performance-based indicators to drive corporate performance...