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Best Free Business Intelligence Software (Stub only)

 
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Introduction

Business Intelligence software provides the means to gather, analyze, and visualize data in way that allows for the intelligent and efficient use of that data. The applications that lie within the realm of Business Intelligence can vary from software that is used to integrate data from multiple sources to software that is used to present multiple forms of data visualization in one centralized location.

This article covers the software that fits into the aspects of Business Intelligence including:

  • Information Discovery – provides for the search and navigation of data in order to gain insight
  • Information Query/Reporting – allows for the querying of data and report generation
  • Information Visualization – provides the ability to visualize data graphically for ease of understanding
  • Information Delivery – scheduling and publishing information for others to consume
  • Business Intelligence Platform - bringing all of the above into a single integrated platform.
Discussion

Software to be reviewed:

Information Discovery

  1. None yet

Information Query/Reporting

  1. BIRT
  2. iReport
  3. JasperReports
  4. JasperAnalysis (OLAP Reporting)
  5. Mondrian (OLAP Reporting)

Information Visualization

  1. OpenI
  2. Pentaho Community Edition

Information Delivery

  1. None yet

Business Intelligence Platform

  1. Pentaho Community Edition
  2. JasperServer
  3. SpagoBI
Quick Selection Guide

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business intelligence software, business inteligence freeware, intelligent free software, information query, reporting, discovery, delivery, visualization, inteligence platform.

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by Remah on 30. May 2011 - 3:57  (72916)

Good to see there's a new editor for this category.

Here's a couple of products to add to the list:

Keystone from www.daptech.com.au fits best under 'Information Query / Reporting' with cube technology. It should soon support XMLA technology which would enable OpenI to report on Keystone Servers.

I'm told that Jedox Palo is "one of the most popular ‘open core’ technologies (some parts free & open source, others paid)."

by Anonymous on 25. January 2009 - 11:41  (14665)

thank you very very much

by Anonymous on 12. October 2008 - 22:18  (9098)

Any process modelling tools ?

by Anonymous on 21. December 2008 - 20:41  (12231)

Not much.

EAStudio has a community edition, which could probably do decent modelling but out of 4 installations in different machines only one did work, others had problems with java and they had latest jres installed and working OK. No support and even google mysteriously tells nothing... This belongs to the category expensive version probably works, community version worth of nothing.

Then there is Open Model Sphere. Lots of stuff for data structure modelling. Also model selction for business process modelling, but could not find a possibility for even "swimming lanes" !?!

If no-one suggest something that works, I suggest You use "normal" tools like PowerPoint or free counterparts of it. Remember that it is likely that your customers have never even heard about EAStudios and Open Model Spheres and they are NOT going to install several copies of it just because You as an external consultant ask them to.

by Anonymous on 2. August 2008 - 20:59  (5368)

I'd be very interested to see what you'd be putting up here. Can't wait.

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