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Business intelligence software is a critical tool for any business looking to harness their data and more accurately detect and evaluate structural patterns, anticipate trends and achieve increased operational visibility. Browse the best business intelligence software with Business-Software.com’s free comparison report of the Top 10 Business Intelligence solutions. The benefits of business intelligence gathering can be realized most fully by large enterprises, but even smaller businesses can benefit from the insights brought by business intelligence systems. Among the top-rated BI software products are:- SAP BusinessObjects
- Domo Business Intelligence
- Oracle BI Foundation Suite
- Birst
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BI Software Vendors
BI Software Vendors Articles
Let's Talk AppBuddy: Behind the Software with CEO Marc Aubin
By Kiri Picone
I first met Marc Aubin, CEO and co-founder of AppBuddy, at Dreamforce 2013, where I was struck by his authentic desire to make customers happy. Here, we discuss how AppBuddy's flagship product, GridBuddy, helps Salesforce users better manage and act on data.
SAP BusinessObjects vs. Oracle Business Intelligence
By James Sullivan
With these SAP and Oracle so clearly dominating the BI segment, a logical question—and one that we’ve seen before in the Business-Software.com Community—is how do SAP BusinessObjects and Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition compare?
Top BI Solutions for Small Business
By James Sullivan
For a while, business intelligence software was too expensive and too complex to meet the needs of small businesses. Today, thanks in part to cost savings afforded by the cloud, there are a host of BI solutions available to help small businesses visualize, analyze, and report on their complex data.
Behind the Software with Zettaset CEO and President Jim Vogt
By Mark Aspillera
We sat down with Zettaset president and CEO Jim Vogt to find out about how their Orchestrator solution seeks to tackle big data problems and plug a gap that, so far, hasn't been adequately addressed.
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Big Data Software
Big Data Software Articles
Behind the Software: Q&A with EverString CEO Vincent Yang
By Chad Yee
We spoke with CEO Vincent Yang in this exclusive Q&A with EverString to learn about how the company came to be and how they will play a vital role in the predictive analytics industry.
Let's Talk Cloudmeter: Behind the Software with CEO Mike Dickey
By Ashley Dotterweich
The Big Data boom has called many companies' attention to the wealth of information that can be gleaned from user activity online. But once you've pulled together all that raw data, what do you do with it? This week Cloudmeter rolled out two new products - Cloudmeter Insight and Cloudmeter Stream- to help companies turn their data into something more useful. We sat down with CEO and co-founder Mike Dickey and COO Ronit Belson to talk about their new products.
What Is Advanced Analytics Software?
By Kristin Crosier
When your systems produce important data sets about business performance, revenue, spending patterns and more, that information is typically archived without being utilized fully, if at all. Advanced analytics tools are built to help alleviate this point of weakness, sculpting data into intelligence that can simulate and predict a variety of business decisions.
Let's Talk Continuuity: Behind the Software Q&A with CEO Jonathan Gray
By Kristin Crosier
We spoke with Continuuity CEO Jonathan Gray about how in its short period of existence the company has drastically altered the Big Data industry, constructing a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Hadoop framework designed by developers, for developers.
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Business Process Management
Business Process Management Articles
Top Features of Intelligent Business Process Management
By Robert Cecchi
Taking the time to understand how and why we get where we’re going can often be more important to our overall development than focusing solely on the end goal. It’s about the journey, not the destination. For businesses, it’s similarly important to pay close attention to the processes that lead to your success, and the pathways your customers take to facilitate that success.
BonitaSoft and the Democratization of Open Source Business Process Management
By Mark Aspillera
Business Process Management (BPM) software has typically been seen as the domain of huge developers like IBM and Oracle and the huge enterprises who can afford their solutions. BonitaSoft contends, however, that the benefits of BPM can extend to small and medium-size businesses too, and they know how to do it. We spoke to BonitaSoft vice president of marketing Mac McConnell to find out more about how open source--and a highly competitive price point--are helping in its goal of democratizing BPM.
Appian Merges Social Media with BPM [Q&A]
By Mark Aspillera
Enterprise social has seen huge consolidations in the past few years, but the verdict is still out as to whether it gives any real productivity boost. We talked to Matt Calkins, CEO of Appian, to find out how they're ensuring productivity by merging social with Business Process Management.
The Top BPM Software Vendors to Streamline Your Business Workflows
By Jessica Jong
With the right BPM solution, you can gain valuable insight into how well your business is running. You’ll have increased visibility into the organization of your business’s activities and be able to pinpoint what workflow areas need to be improved. One of the key components of running a company is having well-established rules and regulations. BPM solutions allow you to implement better-defined rules and responsibilities for your staff to increase productivity across your departments.
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Trends in BI Software
Trends in BI Software Articles
What Is Advanced Analytics Software?
By Kristin Crosier
When your systems produce important data sets about business performance, revenue, spending patterns and more, that information is typically archived without being utilized fully, if at all. Advanced analytics tools are built to help alleviate this point of weakness, sculpting data into intelligence that can simulate and predict a variety of business decisions.
The Cortana Analytics Suite and the Future of BI Software
By Kristin Crosier
Microsoft’s new Cortana Analytics Suite joins together -- and attempts to streamline -- many formerly disparate data processes: data storage, machine learning, big data analytics, information management and business intelligence. Let's take a look which existing Microsoft services will play a part in the new analytics suite, what functionality each brings to the table, and what this means for the future of BI software.
Fortify Your BI Strategy with a Scale-Out SQL Database
By Tony Barbagallo
When choosing the best BI software for your business, you'll likely have to choose between a scale-up and scale-out SQL database. Here's how choosing the latter can fortify your BI strategy and positively impact your bottom line.
How In-Memory Data Grids Differ from Spark and Storm
By William Bain
We provide a deeper understanding of in-memory data grids (IMDG) and how they differ from popular open source solutions like Spark and Storm.
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Top Business Intelligence Blog Posts
AI Analytics Software: Turning Business Data Into Actionable Insights for Better Decision-Making
By Nathan Rowan
AI Business Intelligence and Analytics Software: Turning Data into Predictive Insights
By Nathan Rowan
Popular Business Intelligence Solutions
Salesforce Analytics Cloud
The Salesforce Analytics Cloud is a business intelligence and analytics software platform that allows business users and teams to easily filter, measure, group and share datasets. Self-service capabilities enable users to instantly access data and customize dashboards without assistance from IT or analysts.
Birst
Birst Networked approach to BI and Analytics enables a single view of data, eliminating data silos. Decentralized teams and individual users can augment the corporate data model with their own local data, without compromising data governance. Consistency comes from a unified semantic layer, which maintains common definitions and key metrics, no matter where users sit.
Domo Business Intelligence
Domo is a cloud-based executive management platform that is redefining the business intelligence market and transforming the way business is managed.
Sisense
Sisense offers any sized business the chance to generate high-quality business intelligence without hardware-intensive applications, IT specialists, prior programming knowledge or prior BI experience.
Tableau Server
Tableau Server is business performance management software that provides users with interactive system insights without the limits that come with pre-defined questions, wizards or established chart types. The platform connects to any data source, allows users to publish and share data sources in order to enable team-wide access, and works with multiple third-party enterprise data sources including Cloudera Hadoop, Oracle, and AWS Redshift.
QlikView
QlikView Business Discovery platform does away with expensive and outdated business intelligence systems that constrain the end user’s analytic creativity. Instead, this top business intelligence tool leverages the power of patented, in-memory cloud technology to aggregate, organize and present data to employees throughout the organizational hierarchy.
