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BI Software, Applications & Platforms

Ensuring all business processes are under control is getting harder each year since the massive volumes of data being produced challenges businesses of all sizes. Ultimately, organizations and companies need certain help when it comes to making sustainable and profitable decisions. By utilizing modern and professional business intelligence tools (BI tools), each challenge can be addressed promptly by any business user, without the need for massive IT involvement.

These tools step up into collecting, analyzing, monitoring, and predicting future business scenarios by creating a clear perspective of all the data a company manages. Identifying trends, enabling self-service analytics, utilizing powerful visualizations, and offering professional BI dashboards are becoming the standard in business operations, strategic development, and ultimately, indispensable tools in increasing profit. And not just that, the self-service nature of these solutions gives access to every feature we just mentioned to all levels of users, without the need for any technical skills or specialized training. Making them the perfect solution to democratize the data analysis process and boost business performance.

What are BI tools?

BI tools are types of software used to gather, process, analyze, and visualize large volumes of past, current, and future data in order to generate actionable business insights, create interactive reports, and simplify the decision-making processes.

These business intelligence platforms include key features such as data visualization, visual analytics, interactive dashboarding, and KPI scorecards. Additionally, they enable users to utilize automated reporting and predictive analytics features based on self-service all of this in one single solution, which makes the analysis process efficient and accessible.

But what are the exact benefits of these BI applications and what do they offer that traditional means of data management cannot? It all starts with technology.

offers a broad spectrum of BI and analytics tools, which is headlined by the company’s flagship offering, Qlik Sense. The solution enables organizations to combine all their data sources into a single view. The Qlik Analytics Platform allows users to develop, extend and embed visual analytics in existing applications and portals. Embedded functionality is done within a common governance and security framework. Users can build and embed Qlik as simple mashups or integrate within applications, information services or IoT platforms. Qlik has added a slew of augmented analytics features in the last calendar year.

offers an expansive visual BI and analytics platform, and is widely regarded as the major player in the marketplace. The company’s analytic software portfolio is available through three main channels: Tableau Desktop, Tableau Server, and Tableau Online. Tableau connects to hundreds of data sources and is available on-prem or in the cloud. The vendor also offers embedded analytics capabilities, and users can visualize and share data with Tableau Public.

Microsoft is one of a handful of major players in enterprise BI and analytics. The company’s flagship platform, Power BI, is cloud-based and delivered on the Azure Cloud. On-prem capabilities also exist for individual users or when power users are authoring complex data mashups using in-house data sources. Power BI is unique because it enables users to do data preparation, data discovery, and dashboards with the same design tool. The platform integrates with Excel and Office 365, and has a very active user community that extends the tool’s capabilities.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers business intelligence functionality through its cloud-native and serverless BI service called Amazon QuickSight. QuickSight is embeddable and features built-in machine learning as well. The product lets you create and publish interactive BI dashboards that can be queried using natural language. It can automatically scale to thousands of users without any infrastructure, and touts pay-per-session pricing so customers only pay when users access dashboards or reports.

IBM offers an expansive range of BI and analytic capabilities under two distinct product lines. The Cognos Analytics platform is an integrated self-service solution that allows users to access data to create dashboards and reports. IBM Watson Analytics offers a machine learning-enabled user experience that includes automated pattern detection, support for natural language query and generation, and embedded advanced analytics capabilities. Cognos is IBM’s ‘flagship’ BI and analytics tool, where Watson is the vendor’s entry into the emerging AI-powered tools arena.