In addition to Alteryx and ClearStory Data, vendors like SiSense, Pervasive, Platfora, Pentaho, QlikView, and Tableau all offer different approaches to democratizing access to external data and big data.

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ClearStory Data, a startup that has not revealed its capabilities, has declared that it will be in the business of providing a platform and user model that makes it easy and intuitive to find high value external data from numerous trusted sources and cross-pollinate this data with private and corporate data for fast, richer analysis.

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