Business intelligence tools

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Business intelligence tools are a type of application software designed to report, analyze and present data. The tools generally read data that have been previously stored often, though, not necessarily, in a data warehouse or data mart.

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[edit] Types of business intelligence tools

The key general categories of business intelligence tools are:

Except for spreadsheets, these tools are sold as standalone tools, suites of tools, components of ERP systems, or as components of software targeted to a specific industry. The tools are sometimes packaged into data warehouse appliances.

[edit] Open Source and Free Business Intelligence Products

  • Freereporting.com: Free Web-based BI software application by LogiXML
  • 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 (formerly 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.

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