Business intelligence tools

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Business intelligence tools are a type of application software designed to report, analyze and present data. The tools generally read data that have been previously stored often, though, not necessarily, in a data warehouse or data mart.

1 Types of business intelligence tools
2 Open Source and Free Business Intelligence Products
3 Proprietary products
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Types of business intelligence tools

The key general categories of business intelligence tools are:

Spreadsheets^[1]
Reporting and querying software - are tools that extract, sort, summarize, and present selected data
OLAP
Digital Dashboards
Data mining
Business performance management

Except for spreadsheets, these tools are sold as standalone tools, suites of tools, components of ERP systems, or as components of software targeted to a specific industry. The tools are sometimes packaged into data warehouse appliances.

[edit] Open Source and Free Business Intelligence Products

Freereporting.com: Free Web-based BI software application by LogiXML
Eclipse BIRT Project: Eclipse-based open source reporting for web applications, especially those based on Java EE.
OpenI: simple web application that does OLAP reporting
Palo (OLAP database): Memory-based OLAP Server (MOLAP) with interface to Microsoft Excel, .NET, PHP, Java and C++
Pentaho: enterprise-class reporting, analysis, dashboard, data mining and workflow capabilities
RapidMiner (formerly YALE): open-source software for intelligent data analysis, knowledge discovery, data mining, predictive analytics, and machine learning useful for business intelligence applications.
SpagoBI: a Business Intelligence Free Platform which uses many FOSS tools as analytical engines, integrating them in an infrastructure which offers a cross-operativeness and a consistent vision between Report,OLAP,Data Mining,Dashboard and over the DWH.