Which BI tools impressed you the most (excluding usual suspects Tableau, Power BI, etc)?
What tools do you use
The big list of BI tools and tutorials
Nice list...Just to be specific, BusinessObjects is not a single BI tool, it is complete portfolio of BI products. For example Crystal Reports is a BusinessObjects product for formatted reporting. Also that tutorial is OLD.
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Every BI tool have their pros and cons.
Wondering if anyone came across a BI tool that impressed them a lot in terms of features, ease of use, scalability, etc.
Been looking at tools such as evidence.dev, Rill, streamlit, some others and wondering others perspective on it, is it any good? Types of vizualisations available, end-to-end BI process improved or added headache?
What tools do you use?
Hey all, I’m about to start a trainee in BI in a startup and apparently the software they use is mostly “Salesforce”. I just finished my degree in International Management so I don’t really have a lot of knowledge with softwares such as python, r studio etc. My question is what tools do you use at work, what do you recommend I should learn if I’d like to stay in this path etc. Thanks!
Here's a list of some of the best / most popular BI tools in the business with some basic tutorial links for each.
Feel free to add your own if I didn't include it on the list
Front End
Business Objects - Web-focused BI with a universe metadata layer. Less focus on dashboards than on individual reports.
Review. Tutorial
Cognos - Pretty dashboards and a price tag, mostly front end and analytics
Review Tutorial
Crystal Reports - The granddaddy of reporting, straight forward reports pulling from data. Weak on dashboards
Review Tutorial
Domo - Amazingly customizable, but mostly sales without engineering to back it up at this point.
[Review] - so new finding reviews is hard Tutorial
Jasper - JasperReports is an open source reporting library that can be embedded into any Java application.
Download Tutorial
Microstrategy - Analytics, metadata layer as well as dashboarding, able to consume excel and documents directly (Visual insight) or connect to enterprise level backends.
Review Tutorial
Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) - Standard reporting tool produced by Oracle. Not stellar in any area, but typically chosen to be part of the Oracle IT stack.
Review Tutorial
Pentaho - Opensource, flexible and free (Enterprise Edition is around $10k. Complete reporting suite but without the enterprise version dashboards are lacking.
Review. Tutorial
QlikView - the company talks of maintaining associations between data, and this facilitates a much more flexible approach to data exploration and visualization. In practice what this means is that users can search available data resources with the knowledge that any relevant items will be retrieved, no matter how disjoint the origins of the various data items.
Read the full review. Training
SQL Server Reporting Services - Excellent price-performance ratio and works well with SQL Server
Full review. Training
SAS - Known for expense, the SAS BI suite is made to integrate with the rest of the SAS framework. An emphasis on statistics and regression modeling.
Review Tutorial
SpagoBI
website Demo
Spotfire - Full blown analytics and visualization environment with both end-user and analyst functionality. Spotfire from Tibco provides an easy to use interface for data visualisation, analytics and the creation of dashboards. Most of the slicing and dicing can be done through drag and drop and a multitude of intelligent functions.
Full review. Tutorial
Tableau - Tableau places great emphasis on the ability to create visualizations without the need for any technical skills (scripting). Free for excel use up to 1 million lines, a minimal license is required for more functionality. Read the full review. Beginning Training
Targit Mostly front-end, with an emphasis of ease-of-use, performance and analytics. Website - Trial - Tutorials
Big Data
Hadoop - download
Casandra - download
MongoDB - download
Analytics and Columnar Databases
Aster - Columnar database and analytics suite with n-Path built in. Intended to merge Big Data and traditional back-end platforms. Still very rough in coding. Mainly integrated with Teradata
InfiniDB - Open source columnar database. Moderately difficult to set up, works well with MySQL.
R - Statistics package for running analysis. Open source, free to download, the learning curve is pretty steep.
Stata - Data analysis with a statistical focus.
Vector - I know very little about this one, but this is their website
Nice list...Just to be specific, BusinessObjects is not a single BI tool, it is complete portfolio of BI products. For example Crystal Reports is a BusinessObjects product for formatted reporting. Also that tutorial is OLD.
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