Business intelligence software
Business intelligence tools are a type of application software designed to retrieve, analyze, transform and report data for business intelligence. The tools generally read data that have been previously stored, often, though not necessarily, in a data warehouse or data mart.
Types of business intelligence tools
The key general categories of business intelligence tools are:
- Spreadsheets
- Reporting and querying software: tools that extract, sort, summarize, and present selected data
- OLAP: Online analytical processing
- Digital dashboards
- Data mining
- Process Visualization
- Data warehousing
- Local information systems
Except for spreadsheets, these tools are provided as standalone tools, suites of tools, components of ERP systems, or as components of software targeted to a specific industry. The tools are sometimes packaged into data warehouse appliances.
Open source free products
Open source commercial products
- Palo (OLAP database): OLAP Server, Worksheet Server and ETL Server
- Pentaho: Reporting, analysis, dashboard, data mining and workflow capabilities
- TACTIC: Reporting, management, dashboard, data mining and integration, workflow capabilities
Proprietary free products
Proprietary products
- ActiveReports
- Actuate Corporation
- AnyChart[1]
- ApeSoft
- BOARD
- ComArch
- D3.js[2]
- Data Applied
- datapine
- Decision Support Panel
- Domo[3]
- Dundas Data Visualization, Inc.
- Dimensional Insight
- Grapheur, implementing the reactive business intelligence (RBI) approach
- GoodData - Cloud Based
- IBM Cognos
- icCube
- InetSoft
- Information Builders
- InfoZoom
- Jackbe
- Jedox
- Klipfolio Dashboard
- Lavastorm
- LIONsolver
- List & Label
- Logi Analytics
- Looker
- Microsoft
- MicroStrategy
- Oracle
- Panorama Software
- Pentaho (now Hitachi Data Systems)
- Pervasive DataRush
- Phocas Software
- Plotly[4]
- Qlik
- Quantrix
- RapidMiner
- Roambi
- SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence
- SiSense
- SAS
- Siebel Systems
- Spotfire (now Tibco)
- Sybase IQ
- Tableau Software
- TARGIT Business Intelligence
- Teradata
- Lighthouse
- XLCubed
- Yellowfin Business Intelligence
- Zoho Reports (as part of the Zoho Office Suite)
References
External links
- Predictive Analytics Magazine: Top Business Intelligence Tools (February 2012)
- BusinessWeek Magazine: Giving the Boss the Big Picture: A dashboard pulls up everything the CEO needs to run the show (February 2006)
- Passionned Group: A completely vendor neutral survey (2015 edition) (May 2015)
- Bloomberg Businessweek: Business Intelligence Software's Time Is Now (March, 2009)