Full-Stack Business Intelligence Software
Best Full-Stack Business Intelligence Software
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- Top Rated Full-Stack Business Intelligence Software include: Sisense, SAS Business Intelligence, Dundas BI, WebFOCUS, Microsoft BI, TIBCO Jaspersoft, and Oracle BI Foundation Suite.
- Other Full-Stack Business Intelligence Software on the TrustMap include: MicroStrategy, Pentaho, OpenText Analytics, Cognos, TARGIT, and Birst.
- A complete list of Full-Stack Business Intelligence Software is available here.
Full-Stack Business Intelligence Software
Key Components
- Data warehouse: A relational database designed specifically for data analysis instead of standard transactional processing. It acts as the conduit between operational data stores and the gaining of insight based on composite data. Slices of data from the warehouse—usually summary data for a single department like sales or finance—are stored in a “data mart” for quicker access.
- Extract, Transform, Load (ETL): The first important task is to extract the data from the various data sources and load it into a data warehouse where it is normalized (organized into tables while cleaning the data and removing redundancy and inconstancies). Once it has been appropriately structured it is available for querying and analysis.
- OLAP or ad-hoc query tools: OLAP (Online Analytical Processing), and its close cousin ROLAP—(relational) online analytical processing, is a technology that allows users to query data across multiple dimensions, for building standard reports or for enabling users to ask a specific business question.
- Presentation layer: Dashboards, scorecards and reports presenting the data to users in a visually appealing way that is easy to understand. In response to the great success of data discovery and visualization tools like Tableau and QlikView, many full-stack vendors have also built their own data discovery and visualization tools which are sometimes, but not always, integrated with the rest of the platform.
On-Premise vs. Cloud BI
Full-Stack Business Intelligence Products
TIBCO Jaspersoft
Jaspersoft is a Business Intelligence suite that brings users worldwide more timely, actionable data inside their apps and business processes, through an embeddable reporting and analytics. The vendor says Jaspersoft is a cost-effective platform, and its goal is to help users make better decisions...
Birst
Birst Networked BI is a BI product that promises to enable a single view of data and eliminate data silos. Additionally, decentralized teams and individual users can augment this shared analytic fabric with their own local data, without compromising data governance. This consistency comes from a...
Microsoft BI
Microsoft BI benefits from the ubiquity of SQL server and the set of tools built around the database, including an ETL layer, master data management, data cleansing, report and reporting. The reporting engine is SQL Server Reporting Services which does not have the visualization capabilities of...
IBM Cognos
IBM Cognos is an established product with a large user base. It is a full-featured platform comprising Query Studio, Reporting Studio, Analysis Studio and Event Studio, and Cognos Administration along with some newer tools for Microsoft Office integration, full-text search and dashboards. Query...
Sisense
Sisense simplifies business analytics for complex data. Powered by its unique In-Chip™ and Single Stack™ technologies – Sisense delivers unmatched performance, agility and value, eliminating much of the costly data preparation traditionally needed with business analytics tools and providing a...
Dundas BI
Dundas BI is business intelligence (BI) and data visualization software that includes customizable dashboards, reporting and visual data analytics. According to the vendor, their solution is the most flexible BI platform, with seamless integration into the user’s business applications, allowing...
MicroStrategy Analytics
MicroStrategy Analytics is a platform for Business Intelligence (BI) and self-service analytics. It enables organizations worldwide to analyze the vast amounts of data stored across their enterprises to make better business decisions. MicroStrategy currently has 3 versions: MicroStrategy...
Pentaho
Pentaho is a suite of open source business intelligence and analytics products, now offered and supported by Hitachi Data Systems since the June 2015 acquisition.
OpenText Analytics
Actuate founded and co-leads the Eclipse BIRT open source project. ActuateOne is a unified suite of products for rapidly developing and deploying BIRT-based custom Business Intelligence applications and information applications. Applications built with ActuateOne provide one user experience...
Stytch
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. The vendor’s...
i2e- Dynamic Enterprise Forecasting platform
i2e is a fully integrated forecasting and insights platform that leverages Microsoft Excel® for ease-of-use. The vendor says i2e enables organizations to conduct the following: Strategic long range forecasting and planning globallyOperational historical forecasting locally and globally i2e...