TABLEAU Business Intelligence software Visualised SQL.
DATA made Visual - Software to help you think
To start analysing data is drag and drop the dimensions and measures you want to use into Tableau's workspace. Import data into Tableau it simply extracts the dimensions and measures, ready for analysis. Tableau will immediately produce an initial chart or map, which you can then work with to explore your information. You can use Tableau to produce a wide selection of different chart types, from familiar bar charts to complex linear geographic plots which is fantastic. Watch Demo
Tableau comes with a library of colours that can be used to enhance your data: choose a measure to define gradients, and you can quickly use both size and colour to show critical information. Play Tableau Video.
Tableau Desktop provides palettes where of colours which help understand, rather than obfuscate, the information and that’s hard to do using tools like Excel, where design is not so critical.
Things can be even quicker, you import the data then choose a couple of fields, then press 'Show Me' to automatically generate visualisations. You can use the Show Me option to quickly shift between different types of graph, with inappropriate charts greyed out.
Tableau works well is bringing different data sets together on the same chart. Tableau simplifies the business intelligence process of creating joins, with no need to write complex SQL queries. Its handled in the Tableau workbook, using what we call "a visual query language, a SQL for visualisation". Free Trial
Why bother with Business Intelligence I've got Excel.