Information Builders

Information Builders vs Tableau Summary The only similarity between Information Builders and Tableau is that their respective platforms support the creation of charts and dashboards. Tableau is highly focused on a purely visual analytics environment, and its whole architecture is geared around the creation and sharing of visual artifacts. It…

Information Builders Strategic Review 2016 The market for business analytics tools and platforms is a complex one. It will eventually consolidate and simplify, but for now it is fairly confusing. It does however break down into just four or five major categories – business intelligence, data mining, optimization, machine learning and…

Business Intelligence Software Vendors 2015 The essence of a Fat Free Guide is brevity, and so there will be no feature-by-feature comparisons, which are fairly meaningless anyway. Each product is positioned for its particular strengths, and it is then up to the user to decide on the capability they actually…

As data sources proliferate so the need for good ETL tools increases. Here is a fairly extensive list of ETL tools currently available. Free ETL Tools Talend Open Source Data Integrator provides multiple solutions for data integration, both open source and commercial editions. Talend offers an Eclipse-based interface, drag-and-drop design…

Business Intelligence Tools 2015 A terse list of business intelligence tools, with pertinent characteristics – functionality, platforms, cost basis. Should serve to form short lists. For more information on product click on the tags at the bottom – some have reviews and fuller details elsewhere on this site. WindWard –…

Many of these cloud BI platforms do very similar things – dashboards, charts, reporting, data consolidation. A few however are somewhat different. Datapine is one of the easiest to use and is an extremely productive platform. FICO Analytic Cloud goes well beyond the usual features and include statistics, data mining…

Data Integration Tools 2015 The data integration tools listed here are broken down into platforms that are part of a larger suite of products, platforms that are independent and those that are open source. Some products are listed in their open source community editions and the enhanced, supported editions. Data Integration…

  Information Builders (IB) provides its WebFOCUS BI and analytics platform to address the information needs most businesses have. This company has been around a long time and really understands how businesses use information and the tools they need to get at it. The reporting tools are some of the…

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…