Business Intelligence (BI) Tools

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Sigma Computing

Sigma Computing headquartered in San Francisco provides a suite of data services such as code free data modeling, data search and explorating, and related BI and data visualization services.

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Spotfire

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…

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SAP Analytics Cloud

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…

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GoodData

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…

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Clari

Clari is a predictive sales analytics and sales forecasting solution from the company of the same name headquartered in Sunnyvale.

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Tempo by Sky Road

Tempo’s capabilities let users visualize, explore, and reveal valuable insights in a portfolio. Tempo is designed to offer users compelling visualizations of data, including point in time and time series analyses, that let users iterate rapidly between summary and holding level.…

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FluentPro DataMart

FluentPro DataMart is a BI and data visualization tool suite for Microsoft PPM solutions from FluentPro Software headquartered in Redmond, Washington, that provides PMOs and Executives with data visualization and carries interface for Power BI to access projects, tasks, resources,…

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Anthology Insight

Anthology Insight is a reporting and analytics solution for educational institutions, used to produce dynamic visualizations of course evaluation data, and student success data. Data can also be shared; users can embed public dashboards and write narratives that help identify which…

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Comparative
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Comparative is a tool to used to automate data analysis, that analyzes data in seconds, including every segment, every metric, or every user, with drill down UX means no insight goes unnoticed.

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Rocket CorVu
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Rocket CorVu business intelligence (BI) and enterprise performance management (EPM) solutions help users transform high volumes of raw data into meaningful information so as to identify new opportunities, act on critical issues, and modify failing processes.

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Arria NLG
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Arria NLG’s software solutions explain complex data sets in articulate language. TheArria NLG Platform, combines data analytics, artificial intelligence and computational linguistics. It analyses large and diverse data sets and automatically writes tailored, actionable reports on…

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Narrative Science Lexio
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Narrative Science in Chicago creates software that writes stories from data to drive understanding and results. Powered by artificial intelligence, their technology Lexio aims to automatically turn data into easy-to-understand reports, transforms statistics into stories, and converts…

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KPImailer
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KPImailer is a standalone app that integrates with Qlik Sense® to help expand reporting across the company and beyond. With KPImailer the user can create recurring reports and alerts using data from Qlik Sense® dashboards. It can run without intervention, automatically sending recurring…

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Inzata Analytics

Inzata Analytics promises to be a full-service data analytics platform for integrating, enriching, and exploring data of any kind, from any source, at massive scale. Its AI-Powered data modeling and patented analytics engine aim to help users load, blend, and model raw and unstructured…

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Panintelligence

Pi Dashboard Pi is the vendor's easy-to-use business intelligence dashboard. Interactive dashboards offer a single reporting tool which can show data from multiple sources, enabling any user to visualize and interact with their data in real time, anywhere, on any device. Pi Analytics…

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PriceComparator.pro

PriceComparator offers the ability to analyze your competitors' marketing campaigns. It comes with friendly dashboards that include the ability to model micro-segments of products, channels, geographies, promotions and so on. The vendor says it combines a complete pricing database…

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Blendo
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Blendo is a cloud or SaaS-based self-service integration platform with robust ETL capabilities and compatibility with a variety of data warehouses. Blendo also allows user control over sync timing and access to historical external data.

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InsightHub
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The InsightHub platform is an end-to-end insights engine – a comprehensive research solution, designed to streamline, scale and supercharge operations. It provides access to tools , features and integrated processes to fuel brand growth.The platform enables the user to build a fully-…

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Chata.ai
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Chata.ai provides an in-the-moment self-service analytics solution to enterprises and their users. It helps enterprises eliminate reporting and analytical learning curves for users, and provide fast, painless implementation and adoption. When every user has direct access to detailed…

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Neuron7.ai
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The Neuron7 AI platform works with existing customer service systems and a company’s entire body of structured and unstructured service data to help agents, technicians, bots, and self-service portals diagnose and resolve any issue..

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Datamatics TruBI

TruBI from Datamatics offers an enterprise business intelligence platform that supports self-service analysis, 360-degree view of a single-version-of-truth, and provides an interactive experience.

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FoxMetrics
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FoxMetrics is an analytics solution for restaurants designed to unify and create customer profiles using data from loyalty programs, gift-cards, web ordering, mobile ordering, and delivery. Restaurants can use FoxMetrics to understand how they are performing, drive additional sales,…

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Constellation by Isogent
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Constellation connects an organization’s data sources with customized reporting and workflows to drive more informed decisions. Constellation includes: -Project Tracker -QuickTags -ShowRoom -Aging AR by Salesperson & Store -Sales by Salesperson & Store -Lien Waiver Report…

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Keenlog Analytics

Keenlog Analytics provides intelligence to the SMB business and supports decision-makers with the necessary data visibility to control and take actions to meet their logistics’ financial and market goals. The vendor states the product includes the following: • More…

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Biuwer
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Biuwer is a cloud-based Business Data Analytics platform that helps analyze business data and create reports and dashboards to inform decision-making. It aims to enable users to create and share reports, even if they have no technical knowledge. The vendor states Biuwer is specially…

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Gyana
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Gyana is a no-code visual reporting and dashboard tool, created to give professionals at any level of technical skill data science insights and reporting. The vendor's value proposition is that Gyana:Makes it obvious to find data wherever it sits (files, other cloud tools, self-hosted…

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Headset
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Headset provides a cannabis data and market intelligence solution with a focus on consumer insights, purchasing behavior, and retail trends. Headset business and market intelligence track sales, manage inventory and pricing, and analyze revenue.

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NEUTRUM EVO OPTIMIZER

The NEUTRUM EVO OPTIMIZER connects marketing and sales channels to an intelligent, learning system based on AI, which continuously offers analytics about the effectiveness and efficiency of the marketing efforts and automatically gives recommendations for optimization. With it, relevant…

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Analance
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According to the vendor, Analance is a robust, scalable end-to-end advanced analytics platform that combines machine learning, artificial intelligence, business intelligence, and data management capabilities in one integrated, self-serve platform. The platform is built to deliver…

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Apteo
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Apteo states their mission is to give every person the tools to become a data scientist. With its Predictive Insights feature, the Apteo platform is designed to help users connect, visualize, analyze, predict, and share data with their teams. Its Predictive Insights feature is a…

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Business Intelligence (BI) Tools TrustMap

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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.

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What problem does business intelligence solve?

Business intelligence tools help to make sense of the enormous quantities of data business have regarding customers, suppliers, and business partners, and help uncover the insights within that data that are vital to winning in the marketplace. Business intelligence is an umbrella term for various methods of collecting and analyzing this data to help organizations make data-driven decisions.

What are data discovery and visualization products?

Data discovery and visualization products are primarily designed to help data analysts and business users discover patterns and outliers in large quantities of data, and to build compelling visual representations which allow these trends and patterns to be easily understood. Commonly available visualizations include charts, graphs, and maps.

What is embedded business analytics?

Embedded analytics is the integration of BI capabilities directly into a business application or portal. The idea is to provide analytics that are contextual. In other words, analytics tools are available directly within whatever business application is being used at a given moment, whether it be Salesforce, an ERP system, or a marketing automation tool.

What is augmented analytics?

Augmented analytics is a term used to denote the use of machine learning and natural language processing to automate insights into datasets generated by analytics and BI tools. Today, many well-known BI platforms have built-in capabilities to automate data preparation and detect some correlations and anomalies in large data sets. The ultimate goal is for this technology to be capable of analysis and even insight generation and action plan generation.

What is the difference between business intelligence and data science?

Both business intelligence and more recent technologies like data science are predicated on gaining business insight based on data analysis. The primary function of BI tools is to explore past trends in a business’s historical data and compare data across time. Data science tools, on the other hand, use algorithms to understand and predict a business’s future performance. Data scientists build data models to try to answer questions or discover predictive patterns in huge volumes of data.