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Spotfire® is a data visualization platform that utilizes predictive analytics. In addition to data viz, it includes data wrangling capabilities, predictive analytics, location analytics, and real-time streaming analytics. Spotfire® is a business unit of Cloud Software Group, formerly…
The SAP Analytics Cloud solution brings together analytics and planning with integration to SAP applications and access to heterogenous data sources. As the analytics and planning solution within SAP Business Technology Platform, SAP Analytics Cloud supports trusted insights and…
GoodData is a cloud-based data and analytics platform, bringing AI-fueled data-driven decision-making to organisations across the globe. With a platform that leverages the potential of automation and AI, GoodData empowers its customers to make data analytics available to end users…
IBM Cognos is a full-featured business intelligence suite by IBM, designed for larger deployments. It comprises Query Studio, Reporting Studio, Analysis Studio and Event Studio, and Cognos Administration along with tools for Microsoft Office integration, full-text search, and dashboards.…
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Phrazor summarises data into a few bullet points, highlighting key insights required for decision making. It aims to help enterprises make their reports and insights easier to comprehend by writing a narrative along with each report. With Phrazor, users don't have to spend time analyzing…
Yurbi is a business intelligence solution that is designed to bridge the gap between business users and intelligent data. It provides the business user with the ability to connect, secure, and collaborate with data to make better business decisions. According to the vendor, Yurbi…
Watershed LRS is a learning management software solution built to help employers identify skills and competencies.
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Jama Analyze (formerly called Notion) was a solution for quickly creating shareable, custom dashboards. However, the product is no longer available. Jama Software sunset the Analyze product in 2019. Some of the benefits of Jama Analyze included the ability to:Create custom metrics…
Pyramid Analytics is a business intelligence software offering from Pyramid Analytics.
DataHero is a self-service Cloud BI tool, which uses a drag-and-drop interface to import and analyze data. DataHero integrates with Salesforce, HubSpot, Google Analytics, Dropbox, Strip, Excel and others. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in San Francisco.
Backed by Dun & Bradstreet, Stytch is an analytics platform that offers a connection to Dun & Bradstreet’s data services to deliver better data matching, blending, and cleansing via the D-U-N-S number. This solution includes a dashboard and self-service data preparation tools.…
eMite is a BI tool from Australian company Prophecy International. The tool is designed to integrate with contact center software or ITSM software to present easily to understand analytics dashboards.
Flexmonster Pivot Table & Charts is a component for interactive pivot reports that can be inserted into a web page or a web application. It’s a JavaScript tool that enables a user to visualize their business data. This solution supports Microsoft Analysis Services OLAP cubes,…
Vizlib builds value-added products for Qlik Sense. Their solutions aim to empower data-driven organisations to extend their analytics capabilities. Simplicity that supports data literacy and helps data users and consumers uncover meaningful insights independently – unlocking the…
Toucan Toco, from the company of the same name headquartered in France, is an embedded BI solution that communicates contextualised and actionable insights to untrained business users, no matter their data literacy levels or device used, and without the need for training, coding…
Yseop is a Natural Language Generation (NLG) software targeted at Enterprises. Yseop is based on Artificial Intelligence that reasons on data and writes intelligent content in clear natural language at the speed of thousands of pages per second and in multiple languages (English,…
Axmor is a custom software development services company focused on providing IT solutions for tech startups and small businesses that require additional expertise across multiple IT fields. They help develop systems, automate business processes, and handle integration with third-…
Datawiz BES is a business intelligence platform for data collection and automation of business processes in retail. It helps store chains to implement the service, set up reporting, analytics and planogramming processes. The BES platform includes: Datawiz BI - service with 60+ connected…
DataCalculus provides automation, data quality checks, data privacy and security, pre-built machine learning models, data visualization, customization, time efficiency, and collaboration across departments. These features help to streamline the data analytics process, reduce the…
BigHand Business Intelligence - powered by Iridium is an advanced financial BI solution for law firms with role-based reporting that delivers financial data to the right person via dashboards. The flexible data warehouse replaces manual reporting with data visibility from firm level…
Narrator powers self-service analytics across data, and allows users to get answers using the same data as the data team. Narrator helps data teams build a full customer 360 that covers every interaction customers have with a business (opened emails, paid invoices, new support tickets,…
JIST is presented as a multi-entity business intelligence platform by enabling BI dashboards to have a parent-child reporting relationship, which helps organizations with multiple entities to analyze their business performance. JIST provides dashboards that help businesses track…
SeekTable is a web-based BI tool that allows business users without IT background to create reports and analyze data in a self-service manner. Typically on-premise SeekTable installations are used as:a reporting portal either for internal company's staff or external clients/customers…
Proliftic, by Sourcewell is a student data insights platform that delivers critical whole-child data insights and guidance. Proliftic unifies an understanding and responses using a district's SIS, preferred assessments, and interventions while supporting users with high-touch…
For member associations, Nucleus Analytics offers actionable insights from data by bringing together disparate data sources into a single visual experience, creating new insights. Built with the needs of member-based organizations in mind.
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What is Business Intelligence (BI)?
Business Intelligence tools are designed to make sense of the huge quantities of data that organizations accumulate over time. BI tools analyze this information and present it as actionable information that can guide decision making.
Business Intelligence software (BI) makes up a large heterogeneous category of software. Not all tools in the category can be meaningfully compared to each other. There are several types of BI tools of which the most substantive are Full-Stack Business Intelligence Tools and Data Visualization Tools.
Business Intelligence Tools Features & Capabilities
- BI Platform Type
- Supported Data Sources
- Standard Reporting
- Ad-Hoc Reporting
- Report Output and Scheduling
- Data Discovery and Visualization
- Access Control and Security
- Mobile Capabilities
- APIs / Embedding
Full-Stack Business Intelligence Tools
Full-stack or traditional products are enterprise-level BI tools designed to solve the specific problem of enterprise data silos. Much crucial business data is stored in a range of different data stores, many attached to business applications like ERP. Full-stack BI tools consolidate all data in a data warehouse which is a relational database designed for data mining instead of transactional processing.
Slices of data from the warehouse—usually summary data for a single department like sales or finance—are stored in a “data mart” for quick access. All of this structured data is normalized by using an ETL process (Extract, Transform and Load) whereby transactional data is combined into a single pool of data and then “transformed” into a more appropriate format for querying and analysis before being written in the data warehouse database.
The Full-Stack Business Intelligence TrustMap shows only those products that belong in this sub-category.
Data Discovery and Visualization Business Intelligence
Data Visualization products have a different purpose. These BI tools are primarily designed to help data analysts discover patterns in large quantities of data and to build compelling visual representations which allow these patterns to be easily understood.
These business intelligence tools often use a technology called in-memory analytics to query data residing on a computer’s RAM rather than on a physical disk. This means that the data does not have to be stored anywhere for subsequent analysis.
Data visualization products often have lower cost of implementation and require less support. This can make them good business intelligence tools for small companies that don’t need a full-stack business intelligence solution.
The Data Visualization TrustMap shows only those tools that belong in this sub-category.
Business Intelligence and Reporting
Many BI tools also enable some forms of reporting. Modern BI’s ability to intake many different forms of data and present them in increasingly high and professional quality, some organizations are able to use their BI tool both to surface specific insights and generate regular reports. The level of automation found in BI reporting will vary highly from product to product. For general reporting needs, the ability to set-and-forget data pipelines into a BI tool and the normalization of functions like dynamic dashboards make some leading BI tools competitive automated reporting tools as well. However, specialized reporting cases that use more niche data structures may be less automatable in traditional BI tools.
Business Intelligence Software Comparison
When considering different business intelligence tools, consider the following aspects of each product offering.
- Ease of Use: Some BI tools offer high complexity and customization, but can be difficult for non-technical users. You should consider the technical ability of the staff that will be using the BI tools as well as if you need more complex features.
- Compatibility: Many BI tools are not complete, end-to-end solutions. For some organizations, purchasing BI software from multiple vendors may be necessary. If your business needs BI features that aren’t all covered in a single product, be sure to ask venders about integrations and compatibility with other software.
- Scalability: Some BI software doesn’t scale up very well as data needs increase. Consider the breadth of data generated by your organization and decide if that amount will stay the same or increase. If your data needs will increase, be sure to choose a BI solution that can handle your expected growth.
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Pricing Information
Business Intelligence software is generally quite expensive. However, it’s worth remembering that it is often money very well-spent in terms of significantly improved decision-making.
One of the impediments to understanding pricing is that vendors base their pricing on a broad range of different variables from number of users to number of CPU cores.
However, as a very rough guide, advanced report authoring can cost $2,000 to $2,500 per seat, while interactive report viewing can be about half that amount. Static report viewing can be as little as $50 per seat.