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Business intelligence tools are a type of application software designed to help the business intelligence (BI) business processes. Specifically they are generally tools that aid in the analysis, and presentation of data. While some business intelligence tools include ETL functionality, ETL tools are generally not considered business intelligence tools.

1 Types of business intelligence tools
2 Open Source & Free Business Intelligence Products
3 Commercial Products
4 Notes
5 See also

[edit] Types of business intelligence tools

Online Analytical Processing, commonly known as OLAP (including HOLAP, ROLAP and MOLAP)- a capability of some management, decision support, and executive information systems that supports interactive examination of large amounts of data from many perspectives.^[1]
Reporting software (also called Pixel perfect reporting software)
Data mining - extraction of consumer information from a database by utilizing software that can isolate and identify previously unknown patterns or trends in large amounts of data. There are a variety of data mining techniques that reveal different types of patterns.^[2]
Business performance management (BPM)

[edit] Open Source & Free Business Intelligence Products

Greenplum Inc.:open source powered database server
OpenI: simple web application that does OLAP reporting
Pentaho: enterprise-class reporting, analysis, dashboard, data mining and workflow capabilities
YALE: open-source software for intelligent data analysis, knowledge discovery, data mining, and machine learning useful for business intelligence applications.
BIRT: Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools - BIRT reports are an open source reporting solution that have been developed as part of the Eclipse Foundation.