Business intelligence tools are a type of application software designed to retrieve,
analyze 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
Data warehousing Decision engineering
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.
Open source free products Eclipse BIRT Project
SpagoBI R
KNIME TACTIC
Pentaho Jaspersoft
Open source commercial products Jaspersoft: Reporting, Dashboards, Data Analysis,
and Data Integration Palo: OLAP Server, Worksheet Server and ETL
Server Pentaho: Reporting, analysis, dashboard, data
mining and workflow capabilities RapidMiner
TACTIC: Reporting, management, dashboard, data mining and integration, workflow capabilities
Actuate Corporation: Big Data analytics, data mining, data visualization, reporting tools,
interactive dashboards Proprietary free products
Biml - Business Intelligence Markup Language Birst
Datacopia icCube
InetSoft QlikTech
QlikView Tableau Software
SAP FICO
Proprietary products ActiveReports
Actuate Corporation Advanced Business Solutions
ApeSoft Birst
BOARD ComArch
Data Applied Decision Support Panel
Dundas Data Visualization, Inc.
Dimensional Insight Entalysis
Grapheur, implementing the reactive business intelligence approach
GoodData - Cloud Based Halo BI
IBM Cognos icCube
IDV Solutions Visual Fusion InetSoft
Informatica Information Builders
InfoZoom Jackbe
Jaspersoft(iReport,Jasper Studio, Jasper Analysis, Jasper ETL, Jasper Library)
Jedox JReport
Klipfolio Dashboard Lavastorm
LIONsolver List & Label
Logi Analytics Logi Ad Hoc
Logi Info Logi Vision
Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services
SQL Server Analysis Services PerformancePoint Server 2007
Proclarity
Manta Tools MicroStrategy
myDIALS Oracle
Hyperion Solutions Corporation Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition
Panorama Software Pentaho
Pervasive DataRush PRELYTIS
ProcessEdge Roambi
QUADRIGRAM QlikView
Salient SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence
Business Objects
SAS Siebel Systems
Solgenia Analysis Spotfire
Sybase IQ Tableau Software
TARGIT Business Intelligence Teradata
Thomson Data Analyzer XLCubed
Yellowfin Business Intelligence Zoho Reports
References
External links Predictive Analytics Magazine: Top Business
Intelligence Tools BusinessWeek Magazine: Giving the Boss the
Big Picture: A dashboard pulls up everything the CEO needs to run the show
Bloomberg Businessweek: "Business Intelligence Software's Time Is Now"