Business Intelligence Roundup

Business intelligence (BI) tools are the technology behind your ability to analyze vast amounts of transactional data to interpret trends in business activity. They usually deliver this information in a friendly visual way—charts, graphs—often in a number of side-by-side views called “dashboards.” Here’s a sampling of current BI tools.

Actuate
Eclipse
BIRT (business intelligence and reporting tools) open source development environment.

Arcplan
arcplan Enterprise
Access to more than 20 data sources in their native environments.

Attensity
Attensity360; Discover
Customer experience management based on LARA—listen, analyze, relate, act.

BOARD International
BOARD
Integrate business intelligence with corporate performance management.

Connotate
Agent Community GEN2
Machine intelligent software agents.

Datameer
Datameer Analytics Solution
Designed to solve the challenges of accessing, analyzing and using massive amounts of data.

EXSYS
CORVID
Knowledge automation expert system development tool.

HP
Neoview Advantage
Strategy and management services; data integration and warehousing; performance management and analytics.

IBM Cognos
Cognos 8, Express
Reporting, analysis, scorecards and dashboards.

Information Builders
WebFOCUS 8
From data inception (collection, quality and movement) to information delivery (reporting, analysis and distribution).

LogiXML
Logi Info; Ad Hoc
Developer platform or technical user Web interface.

Microsoft
Microsoft BI
Collaboration tools, search and content management.