Business intelligence tools

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Business intelligence tools are a type of application software designed to report, analyze and present data. 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^[1]
• Reporting and querying software - are tools that extract, sort, summarize, and present selected data
• OLAP
• Digital Dashboards
• Data mining
• Process mining
• Business performance management
• Local information systems

Except for spreadsheets, these tools are sold 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.

Free and open source software products

• Eclipse BIRT Project: Eclipse-based open source reporting for web applications, especially those based on Java EE.
• Freereporting.com: Free Web-based BI software application by LogiXML
• InetSoft: Visualize Free for a Web-based visualization application
• InfoZoom: InfoZoom Viewer is available as a free version of InfoZoom (closed-source)
• JasperSoft: Standalone and Operational BI for reporting, analysis and ETL (the latter based on Talend Open Studio)
• MicroStrategy: MicroStrategy offers a non-restricted free (closed-source) version of their MicroStrategy 9 Platform
• OpenI: simple web application that does OLAP reporting
• Palo (OLAP database): Memory-based OLAP Server
• Pentaho: Enterprise-class reporting, analysis, dashboard, data mining and workflow capabilities
• RapidMiner (formerly YALE): open-source software for data analysis, knowledge discovery, data mining, predictive analytics, and machine learning
• SpagoBI: uses FOSS tools as analytical engines

Proprietary products

• ACE*COMM
• Ab Initio
• ActiveReports
• Actuate
• ComArch
• CyberQuery
• Dimensional Insight
• IBM
  • Applix
  • Cognos
• InetSoft
• Informatica
• Information Builders
• InfoZoom
• Jreport
• LogiXML
• LucidEra
• Microsoft
  • Microsoft Analysis Services
  • PerformancePoint Server 2007
  • Proclarity
• MicroStrategy
• m-Power
• Oracle Corporation
  • Hyperion Solutions Corporation
  • Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition
• Panorama Software
• Pentaho
• Pervasive DataRush
• Pilot Software, Inc.
• PRELYTIS
• Prospero Business Suite
• Qliktech
• SAP Business Information Warehouse
  • Business Objects
  • OutlookSoft
• SAS Institute
• Siebel Systems
• Spotfire (now Tibco)
• StatSoft
• SPSS
• Sybase IQ
• Tableau Software
• Telerik Reporting
• Teradata
• Thomson Data Analyzer

References

External links

• BusinessWeek Magazine: Giving the Boss the Big Picture: A dashboard pulls up everything the CEO needs to run the show (February 2006)