Business intelligence software is a type of application software designed to retrieve, analyze, transform and report data for business intelligence (BI). The applications generally read data that has been previously stored, often - though not necessarily - in a data warehouse or data mart.
History Development of business intelligence software The first comprehensive business intelligence systems were developed by IBM and Siebel (currently acquired by Oracle) in the period between 1970 and 1990. At the same time, small developer teams were emerging with attractive ideas, and pushing out some of the products companies still use nowadays."Integrating Oracle Business Intelligence / Siebel Analytics with Siebel CRM", oracle.com,.
In 1988, specialists and vendors organized a Multiway Data Analysis Consortium in Rome, where they considered making data management and analytics more efficient, and foremost available to smaller and financially restricted businesses. By 2000, there were many professional reporting systems and analytic programs, some owned by top performing software producers in the United States of America.
Cloud-hosted business intelligence software In the years after 2000, business intelligence software producers became interested in producing universally applicable BI systems which don’t require expensive installation, and could hence be considered by smaller and midmarket businesses which could not afford on premise maintenance. These aspirations emerged in parallel with the cloud hosting trend, which is how most vendors came to develop independent systems with unrestricted access to information."Cloud BI: 5 Benefits of Cloud Business Intelligence" , compudata.com,.
From 2006 onwards, the positive effects of cloud-stored information and data management transformed itself to a completely mobile-affectioned one, mostly to the benefit of decentralized and remote teams looking to tweak data or gain full visibility over it out of office. As a response to the large success of fully optimized uni-browser versions, vendors have recently begun releasing mobile-specific product applications for both Android and iOS users."Mobile business intelligence brings benefits -- and barriers", searchbusinessanalytics.techtarget.com,. Cloud-hosted data analytics made it possible for companies to categorize and process large volumes of data, which enables unlimited visualization and intelligent decision making.
Types The key general categories of business intelligence applications are: Spreadsheets Reporting and querying software: applications that extract, sort, summarize, and present selected data Online analytical processing (OLAP) Digital dashboards Data mining Data warehouseExploring Data Warehouses and Data Quality Published by Spotless Data Retrieved 15 May, 2017] Local information systems Data cleansingExploring Data Analysis Published by Spotless Data Retrieved 15 May, 2017]
Except for spreadsheets, these tools are provided as standalone applications, suites of applications, components of Enterprise resource planning systems, application programming interfaces or as components of software targeted to a specific industry. The tools are sometimes packaged into data warehouse appliances.
Open source free products
Apache Hive, hosted by the Apache Software Foundation BIRT Project, by the Eclipse Foundation D3.js JasperReports KNIME Orange Pentaho Superset Grafana
Open source commercial products
JasperReports: reporting, analysis, dashboard Palo: OLAP server, worksheet server and ETL server Pentaho: reporting, analysis, dashboard, data mining and workflow capabilities
Proprietary free products
Biml - Business Intelligence Markup Language InetSoft Splunk
Proprietary products
See also List of reporting software
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