Using Data Visualization Tools To Create Sample POCs - Infocaptor

Friday, August 7, 2015

Infocaptor has both cloud and desktop versions. However both versions run on browser. It has a huge variety of chart offerings. It is GUI based having visualizations Pivot Tables, Fixed Width Pivot, Heatmap, Symbol pivot, Vertical Group Bar, Vertical Stack Bar, Horizontal Group Bar, Horizontal Stack Bar, Horizontal Bullet, Vertical Bullet, Line Chart, Area Chart, Scatter, Bubble, Bubble + line, Bar line dual, Bar Scatter dual, Chord / Circos, Circle Pack Hierarchical, Sunburst Hierarchical, Linear Tree Hierarchical, Treemap Hierarchical. Chart types include: Bar Chart (vertical), Double or multi Bar chart (vertical), Stacked Bar Chart (vertical), Bar Chart (horizontal), Pie Chart, Donut Chart, Line Chart, Radar/Polar Chart, Funnel Chart, Gantt Chart, Bipolar Chart, Progress Bar. And finally a range of dials and gauges are supported.

Sharing of dashboard is through shared URL with both static and dynamic dashboards are supported. The interface takes little time to get used to but it’s easier after that. The pricing is very reasonable. Infocaptor also has alerts and notifications.
Pricing:
Desktop – connection to only excel files – 79$/year
Desktop Enterprise – connection to all other types – 149$/year
Cloud – 29$/month


Review: 

i. Ease of Use : Tutorial Provided. Has a learning curve and after that its quit simple.
ii. Options in chart types: A large number of options provided. 
iii. Customization : Options available. 
iv. Dashboarding and charting both are available and can be shared easily however dashboarding is not available in trial version and the chart to be embedded is static for trial version. 
v. Lots of calculation and filtering options available.

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