Business Intelligence (BI) Service*

Products and Solutions

1. Orange

   Orange is a component-based data mining and machine learning software suite that features friendly yet powerful, fast and versatile visual programming front-end for explorative data analysis and visualization, and Python bindings and libraries for scripting. It contains complete set of components for data preprocessing, feature scoring and filtering, modeling, model evaluation, and exploration techniques. It is written in C++ and Python, and its graphical user interface is based on cross-platform Qt framework.
   http://www.ailab.si/orange

2. RapidMiner

   RapidMiner, formerly called YALE (Yet Another Learning Environment), is an environment for machine learning and data mining experiments that is utilized for both research and real-world data mining tasks. It enables experiments to be made up of a huge number of arbitrarily nestable operators, which are detailed in XML files and are made with the graphical user interface of RapidMiner. RapidMiner provides more than 500 operators for all main machine learning procedures, and it also combines learning schemes and attribute evaluators of the Weka learning environment. It is available as a stand-alone tool for data analysis and as a data-mining engine that can be integrated into your own products.
   https://rapidminer.com/

3. Weka

   Written in Java, Weka (Waikato Environment for Knowledge Analysis) is a well-known suite of machine learning software that supports several typical data mining tasks, particularly data preprocessing, clustering, classification, regression, visualization, and feature selection. Its techniques are based on the hypothesis that the data is available as a single flat file or relation, where each data point is labeled by a fixed number of attributes. Weka provides access to SQL databases utilizing Java Database Connectivity and can process the result returned by a database query. Its main user interface is the Explorer, but the same functionality can be accessed from the command line or through the component-based Knowledge Flow interface.

4. jHepWork

   Designed for scientists, engineers and students, jHepWork is a free and open-source data-analysis framework that is created as an attempt to make a data-analysis environment using open-source packages with a comprehensible user interface and to create a tool competitive to commercial programs. It is specially made for interactive scientific plots in 2D and 3D and contains numerical scientific libraries implemented in Java for mathematical functions, random numbers, and other data mining algorithms. jHepWork is based on a high-level programming language Jython, but Java coding can also be used to call jHepWork numerical and graphical libraries.
   http://jwork.org/scavis/

5. KNIME

   KNIME (Konstanz Information Miner) is a user friendly, intelligible, and comprehensive open-source data integration, processing, analysis, and exploration platform. It gives users the ability to visually create data flows or pipelines, selectively execute some or all analysis steps, and later study the results, models, and interactive views. KNIME is written in Java, and it is based on Eclipse and makes use of its extension method to support plugins thus providing additional functionality. Through plugins, users can add modules for text, image, and time series processing and the integration of various other open source projects, such as R programming language, Weka, the Chemistry Development Kit, and LibSVM.
   http://www.knime.org/

6. MS Excel 2013

   Excel 2013 offers lots of new BI features and functionality, making it easier than ever to gather data and use the data to create powerful reports, scorecards, and dashboards. Excel Services in SharePoint Server 2013 (on premises) enables you to share, view, explore, and refresh workbooks in a browser window, similar to how it works in Excel.
   www.microsoft.com/Excel

7. ReportServer

   ReportServer is an open source software for business intelligence and reporting platform released in aGPL license. Major features include Graphics Reports, Dynamic Lists, Interactive Dashboards, Report Variants, Scheduling and Search and UI, TeamSpaces, Hierarchical   Structures, Report Management, Data Sources and  User Management. ReportServer integrates with JasperReports, Eclipse BIRT and SAP Crystal Reports. ReportServer is a web application based on Java Servlet technologies which can be used with any relational database for which a JDBC driver is available.

8. InetSoft Technology Corporation

   InetSoft Technology Corporation offers various applications that focus on operational BI, enterprise reporting, data visualization and embeddable reporting.
   Style Scope Free Edition is a small footprint server that delivers web based interactive flash dashboards and visualizations that can be shared within an organization. It provides support for multi source data mashups and full admin and permission controls.
   Visualize Free is a visual analysis application that allows users to explore their own data visually and interactively. It requires no software installation. Style Chart is a charting engine and JavaScript API for Web developers to embed charts and graphs in Web pages via AJAX.
   https://www.inetsoft.com/

9. SAS Business Intelligence

   SAS Business Intelligence as a whole consists of the two separate elements - Enterprise Business Intelligence and Business Visualization. The first of them is responsible for ensuring that all the capabilities are enabled and easy to use. The second, though, may be considered an addition as it provides a powerful business visualization studio, allowing users to explore the ideas and information in a dynamic and interactive way.
   http://www.sas.com/en_us/software/business-intelligence.html

10. SpagoBI

    SpagoBI is an open source business intelligence suite, founded and supported by the Engineering Group. It offers a large range of analytical functions, a highly functional semantic layer and a set of advanced data visualization features including geospatial analytics. SpagoBI Server is the main module of the suite, which offers the core and analytical functionalities. It provides two conceptual models known as analytical model and behavioural model. Also provided are administration tools and cross platform services. The analytical model is the core of SpagoBI Server and covers a range of analytical needs. The behavioural model regulates the visibility over documents and data, according to the end-users roles. The administration tools provide various functionalities, such as: scheduler, import/export, user profile system, menu management, audit & monitoring, subscription management and graphical interfaces. The cross platform services include the platform common features that can be used on all analytical areas such as SSO, alert and notification, workflow, search engine, collaborative tools, rules engine etc.
    http://www.spagoworld.org/xwiki/bin/view/SpagoBI/

11. QlikView

    The QlikView Business Discovery platform delivers true self service BI that empowers business users by driving innovative decision making. QlikView is used for consolidating relevant data from multiple sources into a single application, exploring the associations in data, visualizing data, and enabling social decision making through secure, real-time collaboration. QlikView Personal Edition is a free software.
    http://www.qlik.com/

12. IBM Cognos

    From business intelligence to financial performance and strategy management to analytics applications, Cognos software can provide what your organization needs to become top-performing and analytics-driven. With products for the individual, workgroup, department, midsize business and large enterprise, Cognos software is designed to help everyone in your organization make the decisions that achieve better business outcomesfor now and in the future.
    www.ibm.com/software/analytics/cognos

13. Pentaho

    Pentaho offers a suite of open source Business Intelligence products called Pentaho Business Analytics providing data integration, OLAP services, reporting, dashboarding, data mining and ETL capabilities. The Pentaho suite consists of two offerings, an enterprise and community edition. The enterprise edition contains extra features not found in the community edition. The enterprise edition is obtained through an annual subscription and includes extra support services. Pentahos core offering is frequently enhanced by add-on products, usually in the form of plugins, from the company itself and also the broader community of users and enthusiasts.Mondrian is an open source OLAP server, written in Java. It supports the MDX (multidimensional expressions) query language and the XML. It reads from SQL and other data sources and aggregates data in a memory cache.
    http://community.pentaho.com/

14. SAP Lumira

    SAP Lumira delivers beautiful analytics, allowing to easily convey and share knowledge to discover hidden patterns and transform the business. SAP Lumira, personal edition build interactive visualizations to analyze spreadsheet data for insights to analyse, share. This helps to surface the issues and spot anomalies immediately, and let you to drill into details or iterate with more data for a more complete picture.
    www.saplumira.com/

15. System R

    R is a free software programming language and software environment for statistical computing and graphics. The R language is widely used among statisticians and data miners for developing statistical software and data analysis. Polls and surveys of data miners are showing R's popularity has increased substantially in recent years.
    http://www.r-project.org/

16. Jaspersoft

    Jaspersoft is a commercial open source software vendor focused on business intelligence, including data visualization, reporting, and analytics. Jaspersoft provides commercial and open source software, support, services, and licensing around the JasperReports, JasperReports Server, Jaspersoft Studio, iReport, and Jaspersoft ETL products. Jaspersofts main related product is JasperReports Server, a Java web application that provides advanced report server capabilities such as report scheduling, permissions, ad hoc reporting, dashboards, and multi-tenancy. It is offered in a community open source edition as well as under several commercial editions with broad support for various databases and data sources, including NoSQL and other big data datasources.
    https://www.jaspersoft.com/