Business Intelligence Tools and Software

Business Intelligence - Data Analysis

Business intelligence (BI) mainly refers to computer-based techniques used in identifying, extracting, and analyzing business data, such as sales revenue by products and/or departments, or by associated costs and incomes.

BI technologies provide historical, current and predictive views of business operations. Common functions of business intelligence technologies are reporting, online analytical processing, analytics, data mining, process mining, complex event processing, business performance management, benchmarking, text mining and predictive analytics.

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Business intelligence tools and products

Business intelligence tools are application software that generally read data that have been previously stored, often, in a data warehouse or data mart, for quick retrieval, analysis and visualization.

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Business Intelligence Glossary

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Featured Business Intelligence Tools

• Microsoft Excel
  The most common business intelligence tool. It is inexpensive and easy to use. Practically all other business intelligence tools have Export-to-Excel capability.
• Monarch Professional
  The World's leading information extraction tool can extract data from text files, mainframe reports, PDF files, XPS files. It is so simple most of its users are non-IT professionals such as accountants, auditors, managers and data analysts.
• SAP Netweaver BW
• Cognos
  

Featured Technologies

• Microsoft Business Intelligence
• Datawatch
  Information Made Easy
• SAP
  The Best Run Businesses Run SAP
• Oracle
  Information Made Easy
• IBM Business Analytics
  Cognos
• SAS Business Intelligence