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Key performance indicators (KPIs) first appeared in the 1990s with the aura of mystery that accompanies any new idea. The mystery has gone, and now we all know now that KPIs have no rigorous definition, but are just metrics that summarize the state of a business as well as possible.…

These decision support software free products come as cut down commercial versions or open source. Lumina Analytica provides an intuitive interface to build influence diagrams and its Intelligent Arrays provide easy management of multidimensional arrays. Monte Carlo analysis provides estimation of risk and uncertainty, and a free version, Analytica 101…

Data mining clustering methods are usually used for exploratory purposes and to gain insights into data. The most commonly used methods include k-Means, agglomerative hierarchical clustering and increasingly self organizing maps. The tools listed below support a wide variety of methods, some of which are particular to a given toolset. Toolkits…

Both free and open source reporting tools are listed here. The free versions are sometimes cut down versions of a commercial product, but some are fully functional. Zoho Reports is an online reporting and business intelligence service that helps you easily analyze your business data, and create insightful reports &…

Social Network Analysis Software 2015 Cuttlefish is a network workbench application that visualises the networks with some of the best known layout algorithms. It allows detailed visualisations of the network data, interactive manipulation of the layout, graph edition and process visualisation as well as different input methods and outputs in…

Agilefant provides a free and SaaS version of their project management platform. It majors on agile development and supports sprints, projects, portfolios and multi-team development. iceScrum is a web application for using Scrum while keeping the spirit of a collaborative workspace. It also offers virtual boards with post-its for sprint…

Deep learning is essentially the use of deeply layered neural networks. It’s currently a very hot topic, and here is a list of relevant free and open source tools. Caffe is a deep learning framework made with expression, speed, and modularity in mind. It is developed by the Berkeley Vision…

GAP is a system for computational discrete algebra, with particular emphasis on Computational Group Theory. GAP provides a programming language, a library of thousands of functions implementing algebraic algorithms written in the GAP language as well as large data libraries of algebraic objects. Geomview is an interactive 3D viewing program…

These free cloud dashboards are mostly cut down versions of the commercial offering. Bittle supports the creation of online dashboards specifically for the SME user. The free package restricts data storage and data sources, and comes with a standard graphics library (instead of a more advanced one). Bittle also supports…