Case study 2:

Use the internet to research the latest offerings in business

intelligence technologies and their uses by companies.
According to the list of best business intelligence tools prepared by
experts from Finance Online the leading solutions in this category
comprise of systems designed to capture, categorize, and analyze
corporate data and extract best practices for improved decision
making. The more advanced the system is, the more data sources it will
combine, including internal metrics coming from different company
departments, and external data extracted from third-party systems,
social media channels, emails, or even macroeconomic data.
Ultimately, business intelligence software helps companies gain insight
on their overall growth, sales trends, and customer behavior.
1. Sisense
Sisense is one of the leaders in the BI market and a winner of the Best
Business Intelligence Software Award for 2016 from FinanceOnline, one
of the most popular business software review platforms. This solution
capable to effectively simplify complex data analyses, and make big
data insights accessible even for startups and small companies. The
competitive edge of Sisense is primarily its capacity to collate data from
multiple sources without pricey preparations (sources can be
Salesforce, Google Analytics, AdWords, and many more). Users will also
enjoy the tool’s very efficient use of in-chip technology in a database
that processes data 10 times faster than traditional systems. Sisense
also works with the innovative ElastiCube technology, which means it
can import large sets of data and work with any CPU layout without
compromising the quality of your results. If you are interested to learn
more about its features you can actually try out the software yourself
with a great free trial plan they offer. You can easily sign up for Sisense
free trial here.

2. Actuate Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT)

BIRT project is a flexible, open source, and 100% pure Java reporting
tool for building and publishing reports against data sources ranging
from typical business relational databases, to XML data sources, to in-
memory Java objects. BIRT is developed as a top-level project within
the Eclipse Foundation and leverages the rich capabilities of the Eclipse
platform and a very active open source community of users. Using BIRT,
developers of all levels can incorporate powerful reporting into their
Java, J2EE and Eclipse-based applications.
3. icCube
icCube is a SaaS end to end BI platform, specialized to be embedded in
your application. Deploy it on premises, in the cloud or make use of one
of their managed services and enjoy a short time to market for custom
feature requests. It integrates seamlessly with any application because
of the on-the-fly-authentication and authorization (up to cell level), the
ability to connect and combine any custom data source, direct access to
Java and R, a web based dashboard builder and the ability to graphically
design widgets from scratch. Basically, icCube is the dream for any
software developer who needs to provide predefined dashboards or a
solid web based self service BI solution, to their end-users.
4. Domo
Domo’s Business Optimization Software brings together the people, the
data, and the insights business users need to deliver a detailed view of
what’s happening in your organization. Connect all of your crucial
business data, collaborate with fellow employees, and get powerful
visual data—all within one customizable platform.

5. Board Management Intelligence Toolkit

BOARD toolkit combines various BI and CPM functionalities within a
single graphical software environment. BOARD’s BI capabilities include
multi-dimensional analysis, ad hoc querying, dashboarding and
reporting, while its CPM capabilities include budgeting, planning and
forecasting as well as “other finance-related activities”.Like Business
Intelligence software in general, BOARD is used in an effort to improve
productivity and decision making while lowering costs. It does not
require any programming skills to build BI and CPM applications.
6. Clear Analytics
Clear Analytics is incredibly intuitive Excel-based solution with minimal
training required. Employees with a basic knowledge of Excel can learn
the system rapidly, so businesses can implement a fully-operational,
self-service Business Intelligence system with little downtime and
almost no learning curve. Clear Analytics offers a variety of BI-specific
features to help generate, automate, analyze, and visualize a
company’s key data and information. Clear Analytics also enables
consolidation of data from multiple data sources and all within excel.
7. Ducen
Companies need to keep an eye on every revenue generating event and
cost saving opportunity while improving customer satisfaction and
retention. By combining historical data with real-time operational data
for analysis, business users can make more informed, proactive
decisions. However, to achieve these efficiencies, data must be
available real-time.
8. Gooddata
GoodData powers the All Data Enterprise by offering an Open Analytics
Platform that supports both IT’s need for Data Governance, security
and oversight and business users desires for self-service Data
Discovery.The platform consolidates data of any size, typically found
both inside organizations and in the cloud, creating an analytic
experience that is both fast and agile for users, yet protected, managed
and secured for IT.
9. IBM Cognos Intelligence
Information silos, multiple platforms and excessive reliance on
spreadsheets can hinder the process of analyzing your business data to
understand performance and recommend improvements With business
analysis software from IBM, you can explore information from different
angles and perspectives and compare it with data in motion and trends
for a more extensive view of your business. The facts you need for
better results are right at your fingertips.
10. Insightsquared
Successful sales strategy is dependent on understanding the customer.
But for small and medium businesses building up the kind of
intelligence database needed can be time consuming and take staff
away from the task of actually selling. It can be many months before
the implementation of a traditional sales intelligence platform bears
fruit.
11. JasperSoft
The Jaspersoft Business Intelligence Suite offers a number of ways for
end users to perform interactive analysis. For the most casual user, this
might involve simply changing a filter setting on a report to view a
different slice of data. For a data analyst this could mean writing
powerful, multi-dimensional expressions.

12. Looker
Looker is a data-discovery platform that helps companies make better
business decisions through real-time access to data. Data, no matter
the size, can be analysed within Looker’s 100% in-database and 100%
browser-based platform. Looker analytics integrate with any SQL
database or data warehouse, such as Amazon Redshift and Greenplum.
13. Microsoft BI platform
Microsoft Business Intelligence platform include Analysis Services,
Integration Services, Master Data Services, Reporting Services, and
several client applications used for creating or working with analytical
data. This section of the SQL Server Setup documentation explains how
to install these features. Analysis Services and Reporting Services can
be installed as standalone servers, in scale-out configurations, or as
shared service applications in a SharePoint farm. Installing the services
in a farm enables BI features that are only available in SharePoint,
including PowerPivot for SharePoint and Power View, the Reporting
Services ad hoc interactive report designer that runs on PowerPivot or
Analysis Services tabular model databases.
14. MicroStrategy
From local spreadsheet data to enterprise data systems to cloud-based
data, MicroStrategy provides effortless access to all business data from
one place. Use data connectors that are optimized for each source, and
allow queries to reach their greatest performance potential. Connect to
one source or many, separately or in combination. Gain the pure play
advantage of superior R&D focus on strong technology partnerships
and high speed analytics.
15. MITS
Over 1,000 companies are using MITS Distributor and Manufacturer
Analytics to empower everyone—from the CEO to purchasers to sales
reps—to make better decisions with tools designed specifically for their
role. By combining flexible, user-friendly business intelligence tools
with premade and customizable reports, dashboards, and scorecards
ready to run for your business systems, MITS helps users quickly gain
value from their analytics and business system investments through
improvements in cash flow, profitability, and business growth.
16. OpenI
OpenI provides a web-driven interface to build and publish interactive
reports from OLAP data sources. Going beyond that, OpenI aims to
provide consolidated analysis from all the key data components of an
intelligent application. Our key goal is to take away the complexity of
creating and publishing reports for business users. OpenI does this by
providing a clean, intuitive interface to connect to different types of
data sources, and to publish web-based interactive reports. If you want
to build web-based intelligent applications that interact with your OLAP
data sources.
17. Oracle BI
Oracle BI is a comprehensive collection of enterprise business
intelligence functionality that provides the full range of business
intelligence capabilities, including dashboards, full ad hoc, proactive
intelligence and alerts, and so on. Typically, organizations track and
store large amounts of data about products, customers, prices,
contacts, activities, assets, opportunities, employees, and other
elements. This data is often spread across multiple databases in
different locations with different versions of database software.
18. Oracle Enterprise BI Server
Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g is a comprehensive
business intelligence platform that delivers a full range of capabilities
including interactive dashboards, ad hoc queries, notifications and
alerts, enterprise and financial reporting, scorecard and strategy
management, business process invocation, search and collaboration,
mobile, integrated systems management and more. OBIEE 11g is based
on a proven web service-oriented unified architecture that integrates
with an organization’s existing information technology infrastructure
for the lowest total cost of ownership and highest return on
investment.
19. Oracle Hyperion System
Oracle acquired Hyperion, a leading provider of performance
management software. The transaction extends Oracle’s business
intelligence capabilities to offer the most comprehensive system for
enterprise performance management. The acquisition of Hyperion
extends our business intelligence product strategy. Customers are
increasingly using performance management and business intelligence
together. Hyperion adds complementary products to Oracle’s business
intelligence offerings including a leading enterprise planning solution,
world-class financial close and reporting products, and a powerful
multi-source OLAP server. Coupled with Oracle’s BI tools and pre-
packaged analytic applications, the combination redefines business
intelligence and performance management.
20. Palo OLAP Server
Palo is a memory resident multidimensional (online analytical
processing (OLAP) or multidimensional online analytical processing
(MOLAP)) database server and typically used as a business intelligence
tool for controlling and budgeting purposes with spreadsheet software
acting as the user interface. Beyond the multidimensional data concept,
Palo enables multiple users to share one centralised data storage.
21. Pentaho
Pentaho addresses the barriers that block your organization’s ability to
get value from all your data. Our platform simplifies preparing and
blending any data and includes a spectrum of tools to easily analyze,
visualize, explore, report and predict. Open, embeddable and
extensible, Pentaho is architected to ensure that each member of your
team — from developers to business users can easily translate data into
value.
22. Profit base
Profitbase SIM is a full scale financial planning and simulation tool for
budgeting and forecasting where Profit & Loss, Balance Sheet and Cash
Flow statements are fully integrated. SIM enables management to
simulate business scenarios and immediately see the financial impact.
SIM delivers a wide selection of standard reports, graphical charts and
features seamless integration with Profitbase Studio and WebPlan.

23. QlikView
The QlikView Business Discovery platform delivers true self-service BI
that empowers business users by driving innovative decision-
making,Develop, enhance, re-engineer, maintain and support QlikView
applications to create robust services around business requirements to
inform business decision-making and Understand all the data that the
business holds and create sustainable reporting solutions ensuring the
accuracy of the data.

24. Rapid insight

Rapid Insight is a leading provider of business intelligence and
automated predictive analytics software. With a focus on ease of use
and efficiency, Rapid Insight products enable users to turn their raw
data into actionable information. The company’s analytic software
simplifies the extraction and analysis of data, enabling clients ranging
from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies to fully utilize their
information for data-driven decision making.
25. SAP business intelligence
Predictive analytics give your decision makers the insight they need to
predict new developments, capitalize on future trends, and respond to
challenges before they happen. SAP’s market-leading combination of
real-time business intelligence (BI) and predictive analytics make it easy
for you to extract forward-looking insights from Big Data, harness the
power of R, and create stunning data visualizations with ease.
26. SAP BusinessObjects
SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office is an Office
add-in that allows multidimensional ad-hoc analysis of OLAP sources in
Excel. It also allows, Excel workbook-based application design and
creation of BI presentations in PowerPoint. It perfectly connects to SAP
NetWeaver BW and SAP HANA.

27. SAP NetWeaver BW

Quickly Capture, store, and consolidate your vital information with our
real-time data warehouse platform. Tightly integrate your warehousing
capabilities for a single version of the truth, decision-ready business
intelligence, and accelerated operations.Supercharge your data
warehouse environment with SAP Business Warehouse powered by
SAP HANA.
28. SAS BI
According to Forrester, SAS has not only been a market leader in
advanced predictive analytics, but also a provider of a formidable BI
platform. Customers select SAS for its well-integrated, one-stop
platform, a significant part of which is its BI capabilities. SAS provides
scalability, excellent data integration, multiple query languages,
internationalization, customization through a rich set of APIs, advanced
analytics tools, MDM, performance management, and reporting and
querying. SAS ranks eighth on number of Forrester BI inquiries. Recent
market survey data indicates that 14% of corporate customers depend
on SAS for their BI needs.
29. Silvon
Business Intelligence solution provider Silvon Software, Inc.to bring a
powerful, web-based business analysis software interface to retailers.
Under the terms of the agreement, RPE will market Silvon’s Viewer
interface for Performance Analysis by IDEAS, a client-server BI
application for JDA Software Group’s Merchandise Management
System. This new optional interface for Performance Analysis by IDEAS
will provide many added features for today’s mobile professionals.
30. Solver
The solver in excel is part of an analysis tool known as “what ifs
analysis”. You can use solver to ascertain an optimal value in one cell
known as the “target cell”. Basically, solver is used for a group of cells
that are directly or indirectly related. Constraints can also be applied to
minimize the value that can be used by Solver. This article will provide
step-by-step guide on how to use solver to find solution to a business
problem.
31. SpagoBI
SpagoBI supports the real-time monitoring, analysis and presentation of
business data and processes. You can keep business processes under
control by constantly monitoring their state.SpagoBI allows you to go
further than this: you can detect inefficiencies and bottlenecks in your
business processes, promptly react to events requiring quick decision
making, as well as discover new business opportunities hidden in your
own data.
32. SQL Server Analysis Services
Server Analysis Services platform, build high performance analytical
models (multidimensional and tabular) that can be used for interactive
data analysis, reporting, and visualization. SQL Server provides a
comprehensive analytical and modeling experience to support rapid
solution prototyping and support for the largest enterprise-grade
solutions.

33. Style Intelligence

Style Intelligence is business intelligence software for dashboards,
reporting, visual analysis, and data mashups. It blends enterprise
strength with a small, 100% Java footprint. Unlike traditional BI
platforms, Style Intelligence does not require specialized BI skills or
consultants to implement or use. It delivers maximum self-service that
is both end-user and IT-friendlier than other BI solutions.
34. Syntell solutions
Syntel’s Technology Outsourcing services deliver value and provide
solutions that transcend platforms. Leverage Syntel’s expertise in
managing business processes, systems and platforms in order to reap
the benefits of an innovative and collaborative outsourcing partnership.
Syntel understands your pain points and offers a set of distinctive
services that enhance your operations across the applications and IT
environments. Syntel designs a client-specific strategy to achieve your
desired objectives, and our services help you create a strategy based on
the value to your business.
35. Targit
TARGIT fights all unnecessary clicks that only make your life difficult.
TARGIT BI Suite has a very unique and intuitive user interface you have
to see it to believe it! You will experience an integrated and ready-to-
use set of tools which enables you to create intelligent dashboards,
revealing analyses and insightful reports in fewer clicks than with any
other Business Intelligence solution on the market. TARGIT will
accelerate decision making, increase operational awareness, and
improve performance across the organization. TARGIT BI Suite is so
easy to use that all employees can follow trends, create all types of
analyses, and make decisions.
36. Vismatica
Vismatica by IronRock Software is powerful data visualization solution
geared toward small to medium businesses. Dashboard development
tools make up the core of this system, but Vismatica also empowers
you to create powerful data collection forms and conduct data analysis.
It can be deployed on premise or over the web as a hosted solution.
Vismatica comes with additional features for sharing documents and
designing web applications.
37. WebFOCUS
The WebFOCUS Business Intelligence and Analytics platform empowers
everyone in your organization to make smarter, more confident
decisions. WebFOCUS extends to your customers and partners, too,
giving them easy access to analytic apps and tools from any browser or
mobile device.
38. Yellowfin BI
Data to dashboards Yellowfin delivers a brilliant analytical experience.
Our interface is more than beautiful it provides all the data discovery
features that you will ever need. All this whilst providing a fine balance
between the ease of use business users require and the governance
needs of enterprise IT.