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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
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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?
Panorama Software Brings Social Business Intelligence to the Enterprise
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Panorama Software's Business Intelligence solution delivers robust analytics and self-service features like Social BI, process automation, and Contextual Discovery to users.
QlikView vs Tableau: The Top BI Software Heavyweights Face Off
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What’s tricky about business intelligence software is identifying which solution will best suit your company model and practices. Luckily for interested buyers, the Business-Software.com team is happy to offer up our expertise on the matter. Read on to learn how the two vendors stack up in this head-to-head comparison of QlikView vs Tableau.
If Raw Data Is a Thrift Shop, Top BI Tools Are Your Personal Shopper
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Raw data is a lot like a thrift shop: there are great finds hiding within, but you have to sort through piles of endless junk (data) to find the hidden gems (actionable insights). Of course, if you had a personal shopper (top BI tools) to do the sorting, you would find exactly what you’re looking for in less time.
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Big Data Software
Big Data Software Articles
Close More Deals with Data Visualization Software
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Whether you’re a small business or a large enterprise, data visualization solutions will change the way you see data---literally. We uncover the top benefits you could receive, and offer four practical applications for using data visualization software.
Let's Talk Cloudmeter: Behind the Software with CEO Mike Dickey
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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.
Big Data and the Mid-Market - the Shifting Domain of the Expert
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There is no denying big data has become mainstream, or that it is now a ‘big deal’. What is perhaps most important is how it can generate value for specific markets and businesses – especially in the mid-market where business may be caught in between considering large scale IT operations, undergoing rapid change and deciding on strategic investments in IT to support growth and transformation.
Behind the Software: Q&A with EverString CEO Vincent Yang
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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.
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Business Process Management
Business Process Management Articles
BonitaSoft and the Democratization of Open Source Business Process Management
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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.
Business Process Management 101
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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.
The Top BPM Software Vendors to Streamline Your Business Workflows
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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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Appian Merges Social Media with BPM [Q&A]
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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.
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Trends in BI Software
Trends in BI Software Articles
You Should Know Why Alphabet Acquired These 3 Companies
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Companies acquiring other companies is a large component of capitalism and is necessary when trying to maintain a competitive environment. One such business that has gained fame through just buying other businesses is Alphabet, Google’s parent company. Company buyouts are becoming more and more common and most people other than investors, don’t pay attention. However, a company as large and impactful as Alphabet, everyone should be watching their every move. Recently, the tech giant acquired three companies: Webpass, Moodstocks and Anvato and people should know what’s going on.
How In-Memory Data Grids Differ from Spark and Storm
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We provide a deeper understanding of in-memory data grids (IMDG) and how they differ from popular open source solutions like Spark and Storm.
Close More Deals with Data Visualization Software
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Whether you’re a small business or a large enterprise, data visualization solutions will change the way you see data---literally. We uncover the top benefits you could receive, and offer four practical applications for using data visualization software.
The Cortana Analytics Suite and the Future of BI Software
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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.
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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.
