Business intelligence tools and systems help individuals and organizations gain new insights into their business activity, often by leveraging online and offline data sources. Business intelligence tools generate management information about sales, profits, expenses, and budgets. Business intelligence systems automate some or all the processes in key business processes such as sales and customer service.
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SAP Business Objects
SAP Business Objects is a business intelligence software which offers comprehensive reporting, analysis and interactive data visualisation. The platform focuses heavily on categories such as Customer Experience (CX) and CRM, digital supply chain, ERP and more. What’s really nice about this platform is the self-service, role-based dashboards its offers enabling users to build their own dashboards and applications. SAP is a robust software intended for all roles (IT, end uses and management) and offers tons of functionalities in one platform. The complexity of the product, however, does drive up the price so be prepared for that.
MicroStrategy
MicroStrategy is an enterprise business intelligence tool that offers powerful (and high speed) dashboarding and data analytics, cloud solutions and hyperintelligence. With this solution, users can identify trends, recognise new opportunities, improve productivity and more. Users can also connect to one or various sources, whether the incoming data is from a spreadsheet, cloud-based or enterprise data software. It can be accessed from your desktop or via mobile. Setup, however can involve multiple parties and some rather extensive knowledge of the application in order to get started.
Yellowfin BI
Yellowfin BI is a business intelligence tool and ‘end-to-end’ analytics platform that combines visualisation, machine learning, and collaboration. You can also easily filter through tons of data with intuitive filtering (e.g. checkboxes and radio buttons) as well open up dashboards just about anywhere (thanks to this tool’s flexibility in accessibility (mobile, webpage, etc.). The nice thing about this BI tool is that you can easily take dashboards and visualisations to the next level using a no code/low code development environment.
Zoho Analytics
Zoho Analytics is great BI tool for in-depth reporting and data analysis. This business intelligence tool has automatic data syncing and can be scheduled periodically. You can easily build a connector by using the integration APIs. Blend and merge data from different sources and create meaningful reports. With an easy editor you create personalised reports and dashboards enabling you to zoom into the important details. It also offers a unique commenting section in the sharing options which is great for collaboration purposes.
Microsoft Power BI
Microsoft Power BI is a web-based business analytics tool suite which excels in data visualisation. It allows users to identify trends in real-time and has brand new connectors that allow you to up your game in campaigns. Because it’s web-based, Microsoft Power BI can be accessed from pretty much anywhere. This software also allows users to integrate their apps and deliver reports and real-time dashboards.
DATAPINE
datapine is a BI software that lets you connect your data from various sources and analyze with advanced analytics features (including predictive). With your analysis, you can create a powerful business dashboard (or several), generate standard or customized reports or incorporate intelligent alerts to get notified of anomalies and targets. This tool, rated with outstanding 4.8 stars on Capterra, is a powerful solution for businesses of all sizes since datapine can be implemented for various industries, functions, and platforms, no matter the size.
The tool offers features for both advanced users such as data analysts and average business users. The SQL mode enables analysts to create their own queries while, on the other hand, the intuitive drag-and-drop interface ensures a visually intuitive way of entering your values and creating powerful charts and dashboards, simply by using effective visual analytics.
KEY FEATURES:
Intuitive drag-and-drop interface: Simply drag your KPIs into the interface and see how your charts and graphs transform into a professional dashboard without any IT involvement or advanced coding.
Easy-to-use predictive analytics: Advanced analytics features, including predictive analysis based on a forecast engine, where you simply select the KPI, determine the number of data points you want to forecast, specify the previous data points for the calculation, and finally define the model quality by appointing the desired confidence interval.
Many interactive dashboard features: Dig deep into each part of the dashboard with advanced dashboard software features such as drill-downs, chart zooms, widget linking, hierarchical filters, among others, that will ensure a detailed data discovery process.
Multiple reporting options: Take advantage of BI reporting tools and create standard or customized reports by sharing via URL, enabling viewer access or sending an automated e-mail report which you can automate on specific time intervals. Additionally, you can embed datapine into your own application.
Smart insights and alarms based on artificial intelligence: They alert the user if a business anomaly occurs or generate multiple types of insights, including growth, trends, value drivers, what-if scenarios, among others.
SHORTCOMINGS:
They do offer mobile access, but the dashboards are not directly accessible unless you download their app and customize them within the mobile view.
CLEAR ANALYTICS
Clear Analytics is a tool that consolidates data from internal systems, cloud, accounting, CRM, and allows you to drag-and-drop that data into Excel. It works with Microsoft Power BI, using Power Query and Power Pivot to clean and model different datasets. Capterra gives a high user review of 4.5 stars making this tool also one of the highest-rated on our list.
KEY FEATURES:
Reports delivered to Power BI: It delivers self-service ad hoc reporting directly to Power BI, hence enabling non-technical users to explore data stored in databases with their drag-and-drop interface and dynamic query designer.
Connected with Excel: It bolts right into Excel, where you can specify end users’ viewing rights based on a user or role level, and manipulate formulas freely, whether you need to perform basic or advanced analysis.
Sharing on mobile devices: You can use Power BI features such as Power Maps, Pivot and Desktop, where you can share your insights also to mobile devices, including iWatch.
A full audit trail: They offer a full audit trail that enables you to know where the data came from, what filters were applied, who ran the report, and when the data was extracted.
Fetch data elements with a semantic layer: A semantic layer will enable you to fetch data elements and organize them with modeling, visualizing, and transforming data to generate needed insights.
SHORTCOMINGS:
This software is based on Excel, meaning spreadsheets are the backbone of their solution which might not be the best and sustainable option for the future.
Tableau
Tableau specializes in making beautiful visualizations, but much of their advertising is focused on corporate environments with data engineers and bigger budgets. There’s a public (free) version of the tool, but with limited capabilities. The more you pay the more you can access with Tableau, including benchmarked data from third parties. The software also has a non-profit tool and versions for academic settings.
Conclusion
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