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What is Rational BI?

Rational BI provides analytics, data science and business intelligence in an analytical platform that connects to databases, data files and cloud drives including AWS and Azure data sources, enabling users to explore and visualize data.Users can build real-time notebook-style reports…

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A good choise

Rating: 7 out of 10
May 3, 2022
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I have to manage and present report analyses coming from different projects. Rational BI allows for the creation of useful reports and dashboards and sets up automatically sch...
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Rational BI1 year of experience

Rationalizing Data Drive Decisions with Rational BI

Rating: 9 out of 10
May 3, 2022
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A BI solution that does what it must

Rating: 5 out of 10
April 29, 2022
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At the time we bought Rational BI we were a rapidly expanding company. With the increased company size we needed to be more data-driven and we also need to make more decisions...
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Rational BI1 year of experience

Rational BI - Data Analytics and Business Intelligence Software

Rating: 10 out of 10
April 26, 2022
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Rational BI is used in various reporting manners. It allows you to segregate users and or groups, to provide them with reporting and data analytics for the specific use case. ...
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Judy L. Berglund
Team Lead - Engineering
Solutions Architect - Infrastructure Solutions Group
Lenovo
Rational BI2 years of experience
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Pricing

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Free

$0

Cloud
single user

Professional

$129

Cloud
single user

Enterprise

Varies

Cloud
single user

Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee optional
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Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Details

What is Rational BI?

Rational BI provides analytics, data science and business intelligence in an analytical platform that connects to databases, data files and cloud drives including AWS and Azure data sources, enabling users to explore and visualize data.

Users can build real-time notebook-style reports directly in a web browser with JavaScript and SQL with direct and live connections to data. Filter and query data with an SQL database embedded in the client, without network latencies. Schedule reports and notebooks for automatic delivery throughout the organization. Enterprise features like Single Sign-On and strict SLAs make Rational BI a fit for organizations of all sizes.

Rational BI aims to deliver deep analytics, reporting, dashboards and a full Business Intelligence stack in a single platform.

Rational BI Features

  • Supported: Scheduled reporting
  • Supported: Dashboards
  • Supported: Reporting
  • Supported: Notebook analytics
  • Supported: Business intelligence
  • Supported: Single Sign-On
  • Supported: Literate analytics
  • Supported: Data science

Rational BI Screenshots

Screenshot of Modern Business IntelligenceScreenshot of Drag-and-drop InsightsScreenshot of Accessible for everyone, power when you need itScreenshot of Beautiful analytics on every screen and deviceScreenshot of Scheduled reporting: Broadcast your findings to everyoneScreenshot of Connect all your data no matter where it lives

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Rational BI Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesWorldwide
Supported LanguagesEnglish

Rational BI Downloadables

Rational BI Customer Size Distribution

Consumers0%
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)25%
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees)25%
Enterprises (more than 500 employees)50%
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Rational BI has proven to be a valuable tool for users seeking to categorize and analyze big data, enabling them to derive meaningful insights. Companies particularly appreciate the product's ability to leverage SQL in almost all layers, which helps reduce time to market for internal clients. With Rational BI, users can address a diverse range of analytical problems including providing BI tools, data science capabilities, data transformation, and generating insights. By connecting all data sources in one centralized location, Rational BI offers a comprehensive analytics solution. This product also provides various reporting options, allowing users to customize reporting and data analytics for different users or groups. The highly customizable data visualization options, such as graphing and flow charts, are useful for data governance and can even be integrated into a company portal if desired. Users have noted that displaying graphs and numbers on large screens using Rational BI encourages data-driven decision-making within their organizations. Furthermore, this tool is employed for managing and presenting report analyses from different projects, facilitating the creation of useful reports and dashboards. Rational BI also enables the automatic scheduling and delivery of reports to stakeholders, streamlining the dissemination of information. Users appreciate the ease with which they can share information with managers and collaborators in a rational view, with the ability to customize arrangements according to their needs. Another use case of Rational BI involves driving insights into customer usage and identifying pain points through data metrics. The product allows for quick and easy setup of reports and dashboards, enabling users to track meaningful KPIs for improving performance and customer experience.

Data Conversion Capability: Several users have praised Rational BI for its ability to convert data files into live databases. This feature has been highlighted by multiple reviewers as a key strength of the product, enabling them to effectively analyze and report on their data.

High Accuracy in Data Analysis: Reviewers have consistently mentioned the high accuracy provided by Rational BI in data analysis. This level of precision adds significant value to their reports and situation estimates, allowing them to make informed decisions and recommendations with confidence.

Flexibility in Data Source Connectivity: The flexibility offered by Rational BI in terms of connecting to various data sources has been appreciated by users. They have found it beneficial to be able to access and utilize data from different sources, enhancing the overall capabilities of the product.

Usability and Interface: Some users have expressed that the tool's user experience needs development, indicating room for improvement in terms of usability and interface. They feel that certain aspects could be more intuitive and logical.

Lack of Pricing Clarity: Reviewers have mentioned that pricing information is not clearly stated on the website, requiring potential users to contact a customer representative. This lack of transparency can be inconvenient, particularly for small businesses or personal use.

Limited Data Source Connectivity: Users have suggested enhancing the capabilities to connect with other data sources. They also highlighted the need for improvements in the user interface, particularly for novice users who may find it challenging to navigate and utilize these features effectively.

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Rational BI - Data Analytics and Business Intelligence Software

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
April 26, 2022
JL
Judy L. Berglund
Solutions Architect - Infrastructure Solutions Group
Lenovo (Architecture & Planning, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Rational BI
2 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Rational BI is used in various reporting manners. It allows you to segregate users and or groups, to provide them with reporting and data analytics for the specific use case. It also provides highly customized data visualization providing graphing, flow charts, etc. Great for data governance which can be imported into a company portal if so desired.
Pros
  • Data Visualization.
  • Secure sharing mechanism between groups or users.
  • Create reporting on a specific product.
Cons
  • Not seeing anything at this time, comprehensive product.
Likelihood to Recommend
The supply chain right now is a very good area where Rational BI would prove very advantageous. Also, you can be very specific with a particular product to provide insight on how well it's doing or where it may need improvement. Great chart graphing as well.
Rational BI Feature Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization (3)
100%
10.0
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
100%
10.0
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
100%
10.0
Predictive Analytics
100%
10.0
BI Standard Reporting (3)
100%
10.0
Customizable dashboards
100%
10.0
Report Formatting Templates
100%
10.0
Pixel Perfect reports
100%
10.0
Ad-hoc Reporting (4)
95%
9.5
Drill-down analysis
90%
9.0
Formatting capabilities
100%
10.0
Integration with R or other statistical packages
90%
9.0
Report sharing and collaboration
100%
10.0
Report Output and Scheduling (5)
100%
10.0
Publish to Web
100%
10.0
Publish to PDF
100%
10.0
Report Versioning
100%
10.0
Report Delivery Scheduling
100%
10.0
Delivery to Remote Servers
100%
10.0
Return on Investment
  • Allows folks to work on other items as reporting is done in the background.
  • Scheduling and delivery of reports with one click.
  • Single pane of management.
  • Ease of use.
Alternatives Considered
Rational BI is one of the leading business intelligence software products. Ease of use is imperative when bringing on a new software product, you want your folks to have a very low learning curve. The rationale is pretty easy right out of the box, I like the fact that customization can be done from various aspects and are eye appealing.
Other Software Used
Usability
10
Very comprehensive product. Scheduling of reports, delivery to whatever means you are looking at, email, publish to a portal or web server. Built-in security is top-notch.
Support Rating
10
I haven't had to use support to date for this product.

A BI solution that does what it must

Rating: 5 out of 10
Incentivized
April 29, 2022
Verified User
Project Manager in Information Technology
Mechanical Or Industrial Engineering Company, 51-200 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Rational BI
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
At the time we bought Rational BI we were a rapidly expanding company. With the increased company size we needed to be more data-driven and we also need to make more decisions based on data rather than gut feeling. One of the things we did to encourage colleagues to make decisions based on data was BI and actually showing graphs and numbers on a large screen.
Pros
  • Nice graphics that are quite easy understandable for viewers.
  • The level of customization is great. You really have the option to build the board with the graphical elements you desire.
  • Integrations with systems that we used. As a small company, we don't have many complex systems but generally more basic solutions. The Dropbox integration made it really easy for us to get started and it's working without problems.
Cons
  • Documentation for new users could be better. Sometimes it's hard for my users that are not that skilled in IS/IT to set up data connectors are understand the dynamics of data sources.
  • I have used several other BI solutions as well, and their GUI is okay, but surely there is also room for improvement here. Not all things are made entirely logically.
  • Understanding their price structure. Generally, their website looks nice, but it's not very informative when it comes to pricing, and support options. I really miss some kind of transparency and overview.
Likelihood to Recommend
Definitely well suited for small companies, but again many of their competitors are also well suited in this segment. We were in general happy with the solution provided, but I'm not blown away by their solution or support. If you want to get more data-driven visual boards with data displayed in nice graphics is in my opinion a good start, and here Rational BI delivers what it should.
Rational BI Feature Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization (3)
53.33333333333333%
5.3
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
80%
8.0
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
80%
8.0
Predictive Analytics
N/A
N/A
BI Standard Reporting (3)
70%
7.0
Customizable dashboards
80%
8.0
Report Formatting Templates
80%
8.0
Pixel Perfect reports
50%
5.0
Ad-hoc Reporting (4)
55%
5.5
Drill-down analysis
60%
6.0
Formatting capabilities
70%
7.0
Integration with R or other statistical packages
N/A
N/A
Report sharing and collaboration
90%
9.0
Report Output and Scheduling (5)
72%
7.2
Publish to Web
80%
8.0
Publish to PDF
80%
8.0
Report Versioning
N/A
N/A
Report Delivery Scheduling
100%
10.0
Delivery to Remote Servers
100%
10.0
Return on Investment
  • Increased focus on data within the organisation.
  • Data-driven discussions and colleagues that relied on gut feeling are now being more challenged than before.
  • We didn't make an economic follow on the investment, but I'm certain that it was the right decision.
Alternatives Considered
Today there are many companies providing BI solutions, and generally, I think Microsoft Power BI is the easiest go-to solution as it is part of the Office365 software. However all software solutions have their limitations, advantages, and disadvantages, but sometimes you don't need the perfect solution. You just need a solution that delivers 80-90 percent of the full potential to reach your goal and in this scope, we were really happy with Rational BI.
Other Software Used
Usability
8
As stated earlier it does what it is supposed to. It surely has room for improvements and it is possible to make customizations better and easier for builders or users to use. But when software delivers on the most important factors it surely is worth a recommendation and I'm sure others can benefit from it as well.
Support Rating
6
I haven't used the support myself, but my colleagues have been satisfied with the support. As I have understood from my colleagues the support is as you could expect. Still, the documentation could be better and that could avoid the need to contact their support, but overall we're still happy with the support as well.

A good choise

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized
May 03, 2022
Verified User
Project Manager in Product Management
Utilities Company, 201-500 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Rational BI
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I have to manage and present report analyses coming from different projects. Rational BI allows for the creation of useful reports and dashboards and sets up automatically scheduled report delivery to all stakeholders. Managers and collaborators share easily a lot of information in a rational view with the possibility to customize the arrangements.
Pros
  • Arrange data.
  • Dashboard.
  • Automatic reports.
Cons
  • Different user profiles are needed.
Likelihood to Recommend
Rational BI allows managing data analysis coming from different projects in order to create useful reports and dashboards. I usually set up automatically scheduled reports. All the stakeholders can easily share a rational view with the possibility to filter between the interesting arguments. Sometimes different user profiles could be needed, optimize the view.
Rational BI Feature Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization (2)
65%
6.5
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
70%
7.0
Predictive Analytics
60%
6.0
BI Standard Reporting (2)
80%
8.0
Customizable dashboards
80%
8.0
Report Formatting Templates
80%
8.0
Ad-hoc Reporting (3)
80%
8.0
Formatting capabilities
70%
7.0
Integration with R or other statistical packages
70%
7.0
Report sharing and collaboration
100%
10.0
Report Output and Scheduling (3)
86.66666666666666%
8.7
Publish to PDF
100%
10.0
Report Versioning
80%
8.0
Report Delivery Scheduling
80%
8.0
Return on Investment
  • Reducing time to share data.
  • Arrange big quantity of data.
Alternatives Considered
Rational BI allows a deeper data analysis with respect to the other software I experimented with. The velocity to perform the analysis is similar to the other one. The predictive analysis could be very useful, but at the moment I do not use it in my activities. Dashboards are nice and easy to understand.
Other Software Used
Usability
8
Rational BI allows managing data analysis coming from different projects. The outputs are one or more reports, that can be delivered automatically to the stakeholders or other communication media inside the organization. Nice dashboards help to describe and analyze data. Sometimes different user profiles could be needed, optimize the view.
Support Rating
7
I had no chance to use support, ma considering the good quality of the application, it would be supposed the overall support works fine. Maybe the use of different user profiles could be suggested to the support, to optimize the experience of every single user, without access to non-interesting data.

Rationalizing Data Drive Decisions with Rational BI

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
May 03, 2022
Verified User
Manager in Product Management
Information Technology & Services Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use rational BI to drive insights into customer usage of our products and services and identify their pain points through data metrics. Rational BI provides a quick and easy to setup reports and dashboards that can help track meaning KPIs for improving performance of our offerings and customer experience.
Pros
  • Provides high performance embedded analytics
  • Seamless integration to import and export data
  • Rich features for data visualization
Cons
  • Better third party app support
  • Support for offline features
Likelihood to Recommend
Rational BI is well suited for building stories from data originating from individual spreadsheets or cloud applications, data sources like Google Apps, Amazon S3 etc. Rational BI also helps to tailor and easily manage the analytics views and permissions for different audience in the organization while providing a single source of truth.
Rational BI Feature Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization (3)
76.66666666666667%
7.7
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
80%
8.0
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
70%
7.0
Predictive Analytics
80%
8.0
BI Standard Reporting (3)
83.33333333333334%
8.3
Customizable dashboards
90%
9.0
Report Formatting Templates
80%
8.0
Pixel Perfect reports
80%
8.0
Ad-hoc Reporting (4)
82.5%
8.3
Drill-down analysis
80%
8.0
Formatting capabilities
90%
9.0
Integration with R or other statistical packages
80%
8.0
Report sharing and collaboration
80%
8.0
Report Output and Scheduling (5)
84%
8.4
Publish to Web
90%
9.0
Publish to PDF
80%
8.0
Report Versioning
80%
8.0
Report Delivery Scheduling
90%
9.0
Delivery to Remote Servers
80%
8.0
Return on Investment
  • Rational BI analytics has helped to proactively identify customer unmet needs
  • Rational BI has made it easy for business users to self-serve their reporting needs
Alternatives Considered
Rational BI offers richer data visualization components when compared to other BI products. It is visualization options are much more broader and can be complimented by on JavaScript graphic libraries available on the web. It also offers high performance and faster page load times when dealing with large data sets.
Other Software Used
Usability
9
Overall Rational BI is a valuable enterprise reporting tool for any data driven organization. It offers great depth and breadth of features for reporting and analytics that can lead to better business outcomes. Its easy to use and highly configurable to evolve to changing reporting needs of organizations of any scale.
Support Rating
8
The overall support of Rational BI is good as they offer detailed product documentation and personalized support through various channels to enable customers on their platform. It's easy to report product issues to the support team and get their help to resolve functional or technical challenges with the usage of the product.
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