BI Jargon

Why BI Needs AI Business Intelligence busies itself with descriptive and diagnostic analysis in the main. Descriptive analysis is essentially a look in the rear view mirror, and diagnostic analysis consists mainly of exploring data to see why things were as they were. The current enthusiasm for visual analysis tools…

It’s hard to miss the fact that artificial intelligence (AI) has become the latest and greatest thing in the world of technology – and for good reason. AI is an umbrella term for a raft of technologies and techniques that allow software to behave in an intelligent manner. The word…

Spotfire Review 2016 Version 7.5 Version 7 was a major release for Spotfire, majoring on ease of use and a powerful user interface. The latest version 7.5 adds some significant capability in the area of collaboration, data connectivity , and very significant architectural enhancements. The in-analysis collaboration supports live discussion…

Business Intelligence 2016 For almost as long as I can remember various pundits have been forecasting BI trends – and guess what, the most accurate forecast they could have made would be that nothing was going to change. Just three or four years ago BI output largely consisted of paginated…

Summary: JReport from Jinfonet excels in embeddable reporting and data visualisation. JReport is used by some of the world’s largest businesses such as Visa, IBM, and Target, typically to provide online reporting facilities to customers, but is also used in many businesses to provide information directly to employees and partners. At…

Here are open source alternatives to Birt. JasperReports JasperReports (free BI suite) Server is a stand-alone and embeddable reporting server. It provides reporting and analytics that can be embedded into a web or mobile application as well as operate as a central information hub for the enterprise by delivering mission…

Four open source alternatives to Pentaho Community Eclipse Birt BIRT (free BI suite) is an open source software project that provides the BIRT technology platform to create data visualizations and reports that can be embedded into rich client and web applications, especially those based on Java and Java EE. BIRT…

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…

Summary: Complex analytics which involve widely diverse data sources are the forte of Alteryx. The platform is easy to use and extremely practical in its application to business problems. It avoids the unnecessary complexity of many other alternatives, while providing sophistication that is not available in most data visualization and…