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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
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?
4 BI Vendors Using Impala to Supercharge Hadoop
By Mark Aspillera
As a distributed file system for organizing and analyzing big data (think pedabytes), Hadoop has a lot of things going for it: affordability, scalability and flexibility to name a few, yet it's far from perfect.
Software Marketing Hits and Misses: Piston Cloud vs. Domo BI
By Amanda Andonian
Comparing two opposing examples of companies that use their software marketing skills to try and give a sense of their product without having to go into great detail: Piston Cloud Computing and Domo Business Intelligence.
First Look: DataCracker's Streamlined Entry-Level Analytics
By Mark Aspillera
Non-statisticians are having to deal with statistical analysis on an ever increasing basis. DataCracker, the new analytical and visualization solution from Numbers, aims to service that market. How does it measure up?
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Big Data Software
Big Data Software Articles
Top 10 Most Effective Ways to Visualize Your Business Data
By Taylor Tomita
Due to the amount of data businesses need to parse through and act on every day, the data visualization market is growing at unprecedented rates. And businesses of all sizes from all sorts of industries are acquiring data visualization softwarein droves (International Data Corporation). Unfortunately, simply acquiring and implementing a ... (more)
Big Data Software for Sales: Help Your Salespeople Close More Deals
By Daniel Enthoven
Sales managers who look for answers in the CRM system consistently find that the data isn’t there. Furthermore, looking at activity metrics like calls placed and emails sent is even less informative. This is where Big Data software for sales organizations will make all the difference.
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 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.
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Business Process Management
Business Process Management Articles
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.
Top 10 Most Effective Ways to Visualize Your Business Data
By Taylor Tomita
Due to the amount of data businesses need to parse through and act on every day, the data visualization market is growing at unprecedented rates. And businesses of all sizes from all sorts of industries are acquiring data visualization softwarein droves (International Data Corporation). Unfortunately, simply acquiring and implementing a ... (more)
Run Your Business On Open Source Software [Infographic]
By Kristin Crosier
Whether you seek a single open source platform to test the waters or are interested in running many of your core business processes with open source tools, we're here to help! Use our snazzy infographic to learn how you can run your essential company operations with open source software.
Business Process Management 101
By Darlene Lin
BPM can be thought of as being related to business intelligence and operational intelligence solutions. With this actionable information in hand, key stakeholders within an organization can understand the relationship between processes and model them out, gaining visibility into key areas and finding opportunities for improvement.
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Trends in BI Software
Trends in BI Software Articles
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.
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.
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.
BI Software from Your ERP Vendor: To Acquire or Not?
By Pat Hennel
While it may be tempting to get your BI software from your ERP vendor, choosing a best-of-breed BI software solution that's ERP-agnostic might be better.
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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.