Business Intelligence [BI] Tools

Business intelligence products are available as free open-source tools and commercial products.

Open Source & Free Business Intelligence Products

Eclipse BIRT Project - Eclipse-based open source reporting for web applications, especially those based on Java EE.

OpenI - simple web application that does OLAP reporting

Palo [OLAP Database] - Memory-based OLAP Server [MOLAP] with interface to Microsoft Excel, .NET, PHP, Java and C++

Pentaho - enterprise-class reporting, analysis, dashboard, data mining and workflow capabilities

RapidMiner [YALE] - open-source software for intelligent data analysis, knowledge discovery, data mining, predictive analytics, and machine learning useful for business intelligence applications.

SpagoBI - a Business Intelligence Free Platform which uses many FOSS tools as analytical engines, integrating them in an infrastructure which offers a cross-operativeness and a consistent vision between Report, OLAP, Data Mining, Dashboard and over the DWH.

Commercial BI Products

• ACE*COMM
• Actuate
• Applix
• BusinessObjects - now owned by SAP
• Cognos - claims as the only fully integrated BI Suite
• ComArch
• Dimensional Insight
• Hyperion Solutions Corporation
• Information Builders - Dashboards
• Microsoft PerformancePoint [2007] **NEW**
• MS Reporting Services and Analysis Services
• Microsoft Excel - not a real BI Tool but accepted by users as known interface
• MicroStrategy
• Oracle BI
• OutlookSoft
• Pentaho
• Pilot Software, Inc.
• Proclarity - now owned by Microsoft and integrated into MS PerformancePoint Server 2007
• Prospero Business Suite
• QlikTech
• SAP Business Information Warehouse
• SAS BI
• Siebel Systems
• Spotfire
• SPSS
• Teradata
• StatSoft
  

Legacy BI 1.0 tools such as Cognos and Business Objects are being usurped by by BI 2.0 tools that incorporate more integration between monitoring, planning, reporting and analysis, and that provide significant improvements in managing data objects and administrative functions.

NEXT: Comparision between BI 1.0 and BI 2.0 Products

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