Tibco Clarity

[Jonathon Paarlberg]

Tibco released a new data wrangling software called "Clarity" on September 4th.

'Looks like they definitely followed the lead of OpenRefine. Check out their faceting, their use of rows and records with flags and stars, etc.

https://clarity.cloud.tibco.com/landing/tutorial.html

[Tom Morris]

On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 4:36 PM, Jonathon Paarlberg <lion...@gmail.com> wrote:

Tibco released a new data wrangling software called "Clarity" on September 4th.

Yup, they've been spamming the OpenRefine questions/answers in forums like Quora saying that the answer to any OpenRefine question is to use Tibco.

Kind of crass and unprofessional if you ask me!

 

'Looks like they definitely followed the lead of OpenRefine. Check out their faceting, their use of rows and records with flags and stars, etc.

Wow, looking at the tutorials that's a lot more than "followed the lead," that's OpenRefine with a few additions.  They didn't even both to reskin it or rename GREL.  I think that makes them at least the third closed source commercial app based on OpenRefine.

Too bad they can't be bothered to give a shout out or thanks to OpenRefine.

Interestingly, it looks like they actually started this project back in January 2013, so I'm not sure what caused the delay between then and the announcement last week.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonepark

Tom

[Jonathon Paarlberg]

I agree that it's crass. However, we use Tibco Spotfire at work, and if their "Clarity" fully integrates with Spotfire making it unnecessary to copy and paste a JSON script, click "perform actions" and then export to an external format before continuing with Spotfire visualizations, well that will be an attractive improvement to the process I've currently got outlined. Someone in our IT department has already expressed a desire to streamline. If it were up to me I'd go ahead with OpenRefine, because it works well and it's free and open-source software, but people at my company might see things differently.

[Martin Magdinier]

Agree, this isn't really fair play.

On the other side, the question what we missed / how we can make OpenRefine appealing to developer and start pushing new functionality. Looking at what Tibco have done, this is where OpenRefine should have been 12 to 18 months ago.

I've been talking to a lot of people about OpenRefine and while the user side keep growing, every technology oriented person is telling me that OpenRefine looks like a dead project. 2.6 is in beta for over 2 years, commit are pending for months ....

The whole idea behind RefinePro is to help user to scale via hosted instance and reinvest part of the revenue by committing developer resources to OpenRefine. Being a start up with limited funding make it hard to compete with fully grown company getting in the self service data preparation market.

It will be nice if Tibco can contribute back to OpenRefine. However the low activity over the last two years and being under a BSD license left the door open for commercial solution based on OpenRefine and not contributing back to the community.

Let's change this!

Martin

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[Jonathon Paarlberg]

RefinePro sounds attractive, but in our business, handling clinical research data, there will be a great deal of concern over the security of any cloud-based service. If anyone can shed more light on that, please do.

On Thursday, September 10, 2015 at 4:36:11 PM UTC-4, Jonathon Paarlberg wrote:

[John Otto Knoke]

Jonathon,

We use RefinePro and also handle data that is confidential for each project and we never have had any problem. We are very happy with it. 

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