Business intelligence software

Business intelligence software is a type of application software designed to retrieve, analyze, transform
and report data for business intelligence. 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.[1][2] At the same time, small developer teams
were emerging with attractive ideas, and pushing out some of the products companies still use nowadays.[3]

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.[4]

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.[5]

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.[6] Cloud-hosted data analytics made it possible for companies
to categorize and process large volumes of data, which is how we can currently speak of 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
 Business activity monitoring
Data warehouse[7]
Local information systems
Data cleansing[8]

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
KNIME
Orange
Pentaho
TACTIC
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
TACTIC: reporting, management, dashboard, data mining and integration, workflow
capabilities

Proprietary free products

Biml - Business Intelligence Markup Language
Datacopia
icCube
InetSoft
Splunk

Proprietary products
ActiveReports
Actuate Corporation
BOARD
Comarch
Crystal Reports
Data Applied
Decision Support Panel
Dimensional Insight
Domo
Dundas Data Visualization
GoodData - cloud-based
Google Data Studio - cloud-based
IBM Cognos
icCube
InetSoft
Information Builders
InfoZoom
JackBe
Jedox
Klipfolio Dashboard
Kyvos
Lavastorm Analytics
LIONsolver
List & Label
LiveChat
Logi Analytics
Looker
Metatron Discovery
Microsoft
SQL Server Reporting Services
SQL Server Analysis Services
PerformancePoint Server 2007
Proclarity
Power Pivot
Power BI
MicroStrategy
Oracle
Hyperion Solutions Corporation
Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition
Panorama Software
Pentaho (now Hitachi Data Systems)
Pervasive DataRush
Phocas Software
Plotly
PolyAnalyst
Qlik
QlikView
Qlik Sense
RapidMiner
Roambi
RW3 Technologies
 SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence
Business Objects
Sisense
SAS
Siebel Systems
Spotfire (now Tibco)
Sybase IQ (now SAP IQ)
Tableau Software
TARGIT Business Intelligence
Teradata
WebFOCUS
XLCubed
Zendesk
Zoho Analytics (as part of the Zoho Office Suite)
Zoomdata

See also
List of reporting software

References
1. "History of Business Intelligence Software" (https://business-intelligence.financesonline.co
m/#history). business-intelligence.financesonline.com. Retrieved 28 October 2018.
2. "A Detailed Look At The History Of Business Intelligence Software" (http://comparecamp.co
m/detailed-look-history-business-intelligence-software). comparecamp.com. Retrieved
28 October 2018.
3. "Integrating Oracle Business Intelligence / Siebel Analytics with Siebel CRM" (http://www.or
acle.com/us/support/licensecodes/siebel/siebel-crm-bi-integration-166917.html),
oracle.com,.
4. "Applied Multiway Data Analysis" (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/978047023800
4.fmatter/pdf), onlinelibrary.wiley.com,.
5. "Cloud BI: 5 Benefits of Cloud Business Intelligence" (http://www.compudata.com/cloud-bi/)
Archived (https://web.archive.org/web/20180929150346/http://www.compudata.com/cloud-b
i/) 2018-09-29 at the Wayback Machine, compudata.com,.
6. "Mobile business intelligence brings benefits -- and barriers" (http://searchbusinessanalytics.
techtarget.com/feature/Mobile-business-intelligence-brings-benefits-and-barriers),
searchbusinessanalytics.techtarget.com,.
7. Exploring Data Warehouses and Data Quality (https://web.archive.org/web/2018072607180
9/https://spotlessdata.com/blog/exploring-data-warehouses-and-data-quality) Published by
Spotless Data Retrieved 15 May, 2017]
8. Exploring Data Analysis (https://web.archive.org/web/20171018181046/https://spotlessdata.
com/blog/exploring-data-analysis) Published by Spotless Data Retrieved 15 May, 2017]

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