Why is Netease's dominant position in data visualization challenged?

Netease Digital BI is a visual agile BI product launched by Netease for enterprise customers. With data reports and self-service business intelligence analysis products, it shoulders the heavy responsibility of leading the group's big data technology direction and building Netease's big data core system. Netease provides applications based on web and mobile phones to help customers quickly realize data filling, multidimensional analysis, big data exploration, real-time display of big data and member sharing. At present, Netease occupies a dominant position in the field of data visualization, but this dominant position is being challenged by the visualization of Shanhai whale, a rising star in this field.

Digital BI is an excellent data visualization product, which supports visual click and drag and is easy to operate. Supports the creation of large screens and reports at the same time. All projects are in the cloud and can be edited and shared anytime, anywhere. It also supports multiple workspaces and can realize multi-user rights management. However, some of its advantages are shared by other products, and some advantages bring problems, which is an important reason why its dominant position is challenged.

Next, let's take a look at what challenges several BI are facing.

There are only some basic charts and some basic functional components.

The visualization of mountain and sea whales has built-in more than 70 kinds of chart components and rich functional components. At the same time, it also supports the import of custom components and self-built 3D models, which can fully meet the individual needs of users.

The purchase restriction is large, and the flagship version and subscription-based private deployment need 5 or 10 accounts to start selling, and only the flagship version has the big screen function, so the private deployment price is more expensive.

The visualization of mountain and sea whales has no purchase restrictions and the price is very friendly.

As mentioned earlier, Netease has some advantages of BI, which also brings problems, such as SaaS platform. The advantage of SaaS platform lies in its convenience. You don't need to install additional software, you can log in to the account on the webpage. However, it also brings security problems. Users must upload data to the cloud server. Unless the privatization deployment scheme is adopted, the privatization deployment cost of SAAS is very high and the deployment process is cumbersome.

Shan Hai Whale Visualization is a client software supporting Windows/macOS/Linux system. All the user's operations are carried out at the local terminal, and all the data are saved locally. Compared with SAAS, it is more secure and does not need to be deployed separately. Only some special functions (account login, hosting, network disk, etc. ) You need to connect to Shanhai Whale Server.

These are the challenges faced by sugar BI in the field of data visualization. If you are interested, you can try these two products yourself, because if you try them for free, you may find something that suits you.