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.

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[edit] Types of business intelligence tools

The key general categories of business intelligence tools are:

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.

[edit] Open Source and Free Business Intelligence 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
  • JasperSoft: Standalone and Operational BI for reporting, analysis and ETL (the latter based on Talend Open Studio)
  • 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

[edit] Proprietary products

[edit] References

  1. ^ Ouch! Get Ready — Spreadsheets Are Here To Stay For Business Intelligence by Boris Evelson - Forrester Research

[edit] External links

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