In his recent article on Purpose Built Analytic Applications, Vish Agashe singled out Sonar6 as an example: developed to address a specific business area (performance), delivered via a purpose-built UI, and with holistic data visualisation and analytic capability. He predicts there’ll be more of these types of applications developed as we see increased business need for data visualisation to assist in decision making.

It’s an interesting piece and well worth a read!