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Data Reporting

Business intelligence (BI) tools transform raw data into useful information to help organizations make more effective decisions. BI is a 5-step process including data collection, storage, analysis and distribution. Common BI tools include Oracle BI, SAP BI, Microsoft BI, SAS BI, MicroStrategy, IBM Cognos, QlikView and Tableau. These tools provide reporting, dashboards and analytics capabilities. SAP NetWeaver BI and Microstrategy BI are examples that integrate data warehousing and deliver insights through portals.

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Data Reporting

Business intelligence (BI) tools transform raw data into useful information to help organizations make more effective decisions. BI is a 5-step process including data collection, storage, analysis and distribution. Common BI tools include Oracle BI, SAP BI, Microsoft BI, SAS BI, MicroStrategy, IBM Cognos, QlikView and Tableau. These tools provide reporting, dashboards and analytics capabilities. SAP NetWeaver BI and Microstrategy BI are examples that integrate data warehousing and deliver insights through portals.

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Business Intelligence Tools

BI is an abbreviation of the two words Business Intelligence, bringing the right information at the right time to the right people in the right format. It is a 5-step process to run your business smarter, starting with registering the right data correctly, collecting the data from multiple sources, transforming, combining and storing it in a data warehouse. This data should be reported, analysed and distributed to the right people at the right time in the right format. The figure below shows these steps.

Business intelligence and data warehousing


Often BI applications use data gathered from a data warehouse or a data mart. However, not all data warehouses are used for business intelligence, nor do all business intelligence applications require a data warehouse. In order to distinguish between concepts of business intelligence and data warehouses, Forrester Research often defines business intelligence in one of two ways:

Using a broad definition: "Business Intelligence is a set of methodologies, processes, architectures, and technologies that transform raw data into meaningful and useful information used to enable more effective strategic, tactical, and operational insights and decisionmaking."When using this definition, business intelligence also includes technologies such as data integration, data quality, data warehousing, master data management, text and content analytics, and many others that the market sometimes lumps into the Information Management segment. Therefore, Forrester refers to data preparation and data usage as two separate, but closely linked segments of the business intelligence architectural stack. Forrester defines the latter, narrower business intelligence market as "referring to just the top layers of the BI architectural stack such as reporting, analytics and dashboards.

List of Business Intelligence (BI) tools


A list of Business Intelligence (BI) tools see the table below. They are widely used for reporting, dashboarding and analysis. The following BI tools were thoroughly examined on 103 criteria. In random order the BI tools that are part of our 100% vendor independent Business Intelligence tool comparison, the BI Tool Survey 2012. Click on the name of the BI tool for more information. No. Business Intelligence Tool 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Oracle Enterprise BI Server Business Objects Enterprise XI Microsoft BI tools (integrated BI offering*) SAS Enterprise BI Server Microstrategy IBM Cognos Series 10 QlikView Board Management IntelligenceToolkit BizzScore Suite Latest version 11g1 r4 2008/2010 9.2 9 10.1 11 7.1 7.3 8 9 7.3 4.5 11 4 6.1 Vendor Oracle SAP Microsoft SAS Institute Microstrategy IBM QlikTech Board International EFM Software Information Builders Oracle SAP JasperSoft InetSoft Pentaho Tableau

10. WebFocus 11. Oracle Hyperion System 12. SAP NetWeaver BI 13. JasperSoft (open source) 14. Style Intelligence 15. Pentaho BI suite (open source) 16. Tableau Software

SAP NetWeaver BI
SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence (SAP NetWeaver BI) paints a complete picture of your business to satisfy the diverse needs of end users, IT professionals, and senior management. It brings together a powerful business intelligence infrastructure, a comprehensive set of tools, planning and simulation capabilities, and data-warehousing functionality delivered through enterprise portal technology..

Microstrategy BI tool
Microstrategy: make more informed decisions with timely, datadriven answers to your business questions. MicroStrategy Business Intelligence software lets you transform your data into attractive and easy-to-understand dashboards and reports for greater insights to:

Enhance cost-efficiency and productivity Build stronger customer relationships Optimize revenue-generating strategies Monitor trends and discover anomalies Forecast business opportunities.

MicroStrategy BI software runs against data stored in data warehouses, operational databases,
ERP systems like SAP and Oracle, and MDX cubes like Microsoft Analysis Services, SAP BW, Essbase, and TM1. MicroStrategy is a fully integrated BI platform that makes Business Intelligence faster, easier, and more user-friendly.

Conclusion:
Buisness Intelligence tool brings together a powerful business intelligence infrastructure, a comprehensive set of tools, planning and simulation capabilities, and data-warehousing functionality.

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