BI Jargon

Free Dashboard Software 2015 These free (not trials) dashboard software serve various functions. Qlik, SpagoBI, SAP and InetSoft are fully blown analytics tools with sophisticated dashboard capability. Other such as Bittle, ClicData, DashZen and so on, are cloud based. Bittle supports the creation of online dashboards specifically for the SME user.…

The enterprise BI platforms compared in this article represent the most common alternatives many organizations will consider. The analysis is high level, and not a feature by feature comparison – which is fairly pointless in our opinion. The five criteria used to compare the products are: Capability – the breadth…

Definition: Martini BI – anytime, anyplace, anywhere BI. I’ll let you into a secret. Yours is not the only organization struggling with business intelligence – whatever that term is supposed to mean. Over a decade ago I hosted an annual BI conference is Amsterdam. It attracted delegates from most of…

Verdict Very flexible and widely used reporting environment, but you will need to buy the commercial product ActuateOne to get bells and whistles (Dashboards, ad-hoc reporting etc). Actuate claim that Eclipse BIRT is the most widely used open source BI suite. As the name suggests it runs on the Eclipse…

Verdict This is a pragmatic and highly effective OLAP based BI suite with a useful Excel interface and web based tools. Palo is an open source business intelligence suite focused around OLAP, and Excel and web interfaces. The Palo OLAP Server is at the heart of the offering and provides…

Verdict Jaspersoft Community addresses the creation of reports and charts and does so admirably. The scope of the product is fairly limited compared with some other open source offerings, but it does what it does very well. JasperSoft provides several versions of its JasperSoft BI suite. The Community edition essentially…

SpagoBI is essentially a very large collection of open source software brought together to create a broad business intelligence capability. In fact it goes beyond the traditional notion of BI to embrace domains such as data mining and BPM. This broad capability has encouraged large companies such as Fiat and…