The data visualization and exploration vendors Qlikview, Tableau, and TIBCO Spotfire have all been helping bring agility to the operational data vendors.

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Why not instead, spend a fraction of that amount on technologies like Splunk, Revolution Analytics, 1010data, Pervasive Data Rush, QlikView, Tableau, and TIBCO Spotfire?

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Companies like QlikView and TIBCO Spotfire are attacking this weakness head on by providing data analysis and visualization capabilities that allow end-users to assemble data, connect it, and explore it.

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