Review

Zoho Reports Review Summary Zoho Reports is a cloud based BI service that compares well with many prominent BI platforms. It comes with a rich visual environment, interfaces to a large number of data sources and applications, comes with native support for mobile devices, strong embedding functionality, and functional extensibility.…

Stories is a business intelligence platform that tells you what you need to know. This is quite different from traditional BI platforms where we have to discover the things that are important for us to know. The name of the product reveals the way it works. Instead of presenting a…

Overview icCube is a high performance, production oriented BI platform. In essence icCube is a single product with a Java server and JavaScript client. It comes with modest but adequate ETL capabilities, a sophisticated OLAP server and the standard language MDX (which is enhanced by over 250 additional functions), easy-to-use…

JReport 14 is an embedded reporting and visual analytics platform capable of supporting complex, demanding requirements. It includes a new Quick Start interface, delivering very easy to use self-service capability. This is an unusual combination of features – support for complex reporting (including embedded graphics), visual analytics, self-service capability, and scalability that…

Exago BI provides a reporting and visual analytics platform that is implemented as a .Net application, and runs on Windows and Linux (through Mono). Please note the inclusion of reporting as a core capability of this platform. Many visual analytics platforms treat reporting as someone else’s problem, and an integrated reporting…

GoodData has a wholly different take on the use of visual analytics and business intelligence. It believes analytics should be a demonstrably profitable activity, enabling businesses to monetize their data. Virtually all suppliers of visual analytics tools are pushing the notion that making these tools available to a wide audience…

Izenda Strategic Review 2016 Summary Izenda provides a platform for self-service analytics in an embedded BI environment. The emergence of visual analytics platforms over the last five years or so has seen the emergence of numerous platforms that treat BI as a stand-alone environment, with separate hardware and software architectures,…

InsightSquared Review 2016 InsightSquared is essentially a sales reporting app implemented as a cloud service. It is not a general purpose BI tool, but provides a large number of sales oriented reports – to the extent that some users find the choice bewildering. It is mainly used by small and…

Logi Analytics Review Summary Logi Analytics provides two platforms: the operations oriented Logi Info BI platform, and the newer Logi Vision data visualization and exploration platform. The company aims to cater for the needs of three types of user – analysts and power business users who need a free format…