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ratings 33 Open Source and Free Business Intelligence Solutions : Business Intelligence solution(http://www.predictiveanalyticstoday.com/business-intelligence-solution/) enables, the collection and ingestion ofintelligence data through enrichment and augmentation.Business Intelligence technologies provide historical, currentand predictive views of business operations. The common functions of business intelligence technologies are reporting,online analytical processing, data mining, process mining, business performance management, benchmarking andanalytics. Following is a list of 33+ business intelligence solutions covering 1) Free Open Source Business IntelligenceSolutions 2) Free Cloud Business Intelligence 3) Free Proprietary Business Intelligence Solutions and 3) Open Sourcecommercial Business Intelligence Solution in no particular order.
33 Open Source and Free Business Intelligence Solutions in no particular order :
1) Free Open Source Business Intelligence Solutions:
Pentaho Community Edition, OpenText Actuate Information Hub, Free Edition, ReportServer, JasperReports BusinessIntelligence, Jedox Base, SpagoBI, ART, Pentaho Reporting, JMagallanes, OpenReports, Seal Report, Openi, NextReports,RapidMiner, Mondrian, KNIME.
2) Free Cloud Business Intelligence Solutions:
Watson Analytics, SAP Lumira Cloud, Power BI, MicroStrategy Analytics Express and Birst Express for NetSuite.
3) Free Proprietary Business Intelligence Solutions :
EspressReport Lite, SAP Lumira, QlikView Personal Edition, InetSoft, Qlik Sense Desktop, icCube, Tableau Public.
4) Open Source Commercial Business Intelligence Solution :
Pentaho, Jaspersoft, Palo, Actuate Corporation, TACTIC.
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BI Software Features Category Restriction
PentahoCommunityEdition
Business Analytics Platform, Data Integration, ReportDesigner, Aggregation Designer, Schema Workbench,Metadata Editor, Hadoop Shims
Free OpenSourceBusinessIntelligenceSoftware
OpenTextActuateInformationHub, FreeEdition
Schedule, manage and export BIRT content, Addinteractivity for BIRT Reports, Collaborate and sharecontent with users, Integrate BIRT content with your webapplication
Free OpenSourceBusinessIntelligenceSoftware
ReportServer Graphic Reports, Dynamic Lists, Interactive Dashboards,Report Variants, Scheduling and Search and UI
Free OpenSourceBusinessIntelligenceSoftware
JaspersoftCommunityEdition
Report Designer, Reporting Engine, Interactive ReportViewing, Server Repository, Report Scheduling, Mobile BI,User Access & Security
Free OpenSourceBusinessIntelligenceSoftware
Jedox Base Jedox OLAP Server, Jedox Excel Add-in Free OpenSourceBusinessIntelligenceSoftware
SpagoBI Reporting, Multidimensional analysis (OLAP), Charts,Interactive cockpits, Ad-hoc reporting
Free OpenSourceBusinessIntelligenceSoftware
A ReportingTool
Reporting, Multidimensional analysis (OLAP), Charts,Interactive cockpits, Ad-hoc reporting
Free OpenSourceBusinessIntelligenceSoftware
PentahoReporting
Report Designer and Reporting Engine Free OpenSourceBusinessIntelligenceSoftware
JMagallanes OLAP and Dynamic Reports Free OpenSourceBusinessIntelligenceSoftware
OpenReports Web based report generation and administrationinterface
Free OpenSourceBusiness
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IntelligenceSoftware
Seal Report Web Report Server, Dynamic HTML 5 Charts or MSCharts, Dynamic SQL sources
Free OpenSourceBusinessIntelligenceSoftware
OpenI Web-driven interface to build and publish interactivereports from OLAP data sources
Free OpenSourceBusinessIntelligenceSoftware
NextReports NextReports Designer, NextReports Engine andNextReports Server
Free OpenSourceBusinessIntelligenceSoftware
Rapidminer Advanced Analytics, Advanced Scheduling, Reports,Interactive Reports, Collaboration, Integration
Free OpenSourceBusinessIntelligenceSoftware
Mondrian Online Analytical Processing server Free OpenSourceBusinessIntelligenceSoftware
KNIME Advanced Analytics, Reporting Free OpenSourceBusinessIntelligenceSoftware
IBM WatsonAnalytics
Self-service analytics, Data refinement, Datawarehousing, Data visualization
Free CloudBusinessIntelligence
100,000 rows, 50columns and total datastorage of 500 MB
MicrosoftPower BI
Self-service analytics, Data refinement, Datawarehousing, Data visualization
Free CloudBusinessIntelligence
Data capacity limit of 1GB, and support forstreaming data, is 10Krows/hour
SAP LumiraCloud
Self-service analytics, Data refinement, Datawarehousing, Data visualization
Free CloudBusinessIntelligence
1 GB of free storage
MicroStrategyAnalyticsExpress
Self-service analytics, Data refinement, Datawarehousing, Data visualization
Free CloudBusinessIntelligence
Free for one year version
Birst Expressfor NetSuite
Birst Discovery and Birst Enterprise editions for NetSuite Free CloudBusinessIntelligence
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EspressReportLite
Reporting engine, Visual report builder, Scheduling tools ProprietaryBusinessIntelligenceSoftware
SAP Lumira,personaledition
Self-service analytics, Data refinement, Data visualization ProprietaryBusinessIntelligenceSoftware
QlikViewPersonalEdition
Self-service analytics, Data refinement, Data visualization ProprietaryBusinessIntelligenceSoftware
Style ScopeFree Edition
Interactive flash dashboards and Visualizations ProprietaryBusinessIntelligenceSoftware
Qlik SenseDesktop
Visualizations, Reports and Dashboards ProprietaryBusinessIntelligenceSoftware
icCube Multidimensional online analytical processing, Webreporting server
ProprietaryBusinessIntelligenceSoftware
Tableau Public Data visualisation ProprietaryBusinessIntelligenceSoftware
Pentaho Suite of open source Business Intelligence products Open SourceBusinessIntelligenceSoftware
Jaspersoft Suite of open source Business Intelligence products Open SourceBusinessIntelligenceSoftware
Jedox Suite of open source Business Intelligence products Open SourceBusinessIntelligenceSoftware
TACTIC Web based platform Open SourceBusinessIntelligenceSoftware
1) Free Open Source Business Intelligence Solutions:1. Pentaho Community Edition
Pentaho offers, a suite of open source Business Intelligence (BI) products which provide data integration, OLAP services,
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reporting, dashboarding, data mining and ETL capabilities. Pentaho Community Edition suite(http://community.pentaho.com/) includes ETL, OLAP analysis, metadata, data mining, reporting, dashboards and aplatform that allows to create complex solutions to business problems.Portfolio includes Business Analytics Platform,Data Integration, Report Designer, Aggregation Designer, Schema Workbench, Metadata Editor, Hadoop Shims.TheReport Designer is a graphical tool that generates reports from data streamed through the Data Integration enginewithout the need for any intermediate staging tables.
Pentaho Community Edition (http://www.predictiveanalyticstoday.com/pentaho-community-edition/)
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2. OpenText Actuate Information Hub, Free EditionBIRT is an open source Eclipse based reporting system from Eclipse Foundation which integrates with Java/Java EEapplication to produce compelling reports. BIRT Business Intelligence platform includes BIRT Designer, BIRT DesignerPro, BIRT iHub F-Type and BIRT Analytics. BIRT provides core reporting features such as report layout, data access andscripting. The stated goals are to address the reporting needs within a typical application, which ranges from operationalor enterprise reporting to multi dimensional online analytical processing (OLAP). BIRT has two main components, whichare, a visual report designer within the Eclipse IDE for creating BIRT Reports, and a runtime component for generatingreports that can be deployed to any Java environment. The BIRT project also includes a charting engine that is both fullyintegrated into the report designer and can be used standalone to integrate charts into an application.
BIRT Business Intelligence (http://www.predictiveanalyticstoday.com/birt-business-intelligence/)
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3. ReportServer
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3. ReportServerReportServer is an open source software for business intelligence and reporting platform released in aGPL license. Majorfeatures include Graphic 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 applicationbased on Java Servlet technologies which can be used with any relational database for which a JDBC driver is available.
ReportServer (http://www.reportserver.net/)
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4. JasperReports Business IntelligenceJaspersoft Business Intelligence Suite Community Edition includes JasperReports Server, JasperReports Library,Jaspersoft Studio and iReport Studio. JasperReports Server is a stand-alone and embeddable reporting server. It providesreporting and analytics that can be embedded into a web or mobile application as well as operate as a centralinformation hub for the enterprise by delivering mission critical information on a real time or scheduled basis to thebrowser, mobile device, printer, or email inbox in a variety of file formats.
The heart of the Jaspersoft BI Suite is JasperReports Server. JasperReports Server provides the ability to create newreports using an intuitive web-based drag and drop Ad Hoc reporting interface, efficiently and securely manage manyreports, interact with reports, including entering parameters and drilling on data. For advanced BI users, Jaspersoftoffers Jaspersoft OLAP, which runs as an add-on feature to JasperReports Server to provide OLAP based data analysiscapabilities.
JasperReports Business Intelligence (http://www.predictiveanalyticstoday.com/jaspersoft-business-intelligence-suite/)
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5.Jedox BaseThe Jedox Base Business Intelligence solution provides OLAP Server,Free Excel client (Jedox Excel Add-in), No limit ondatabase size, dimensions or number of users.All the data the Jedox OLAP Server holds is organized in cubes,dimensions, elements and element attributes. This approach to data modelling has proven very successful as it accurately reflects the way users think of their business. Jedox also offers multidimensional, real-time aggregation andcalculation capability. Jedox OLAP Server also supports real time modelling. Jedox OLAP offers a variety of ways toextend the application via API and standard serial interfaces.
Jedox Base (http://www.predictiveanalyticstoday.com/jedox-base-business-intelligence/)
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6. SpagoBISpagoBI is an open source business intelligence suite, founded and supported by the Engineering Group. It offers a largerange of analytical functions, a highly functional semantic layer and a set of advanced data visualization featuresincluding geospatial analytics. SpagoBI Server is the main module of the suite, which offers the core and analyticalfunctionalities. It provides two conceptual models known as analytical model and behavioural model. Also provided areadministration tools and cross platform services. The analytical model is the core of SpagoBI Server and covers a rangeof 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 servicesinclude 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.
SpagoBI (http://www.predictiveanalyticstoday.com/spagobi-business-intelligence/)
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7. ART – A Reporting Tool.ART stands for A Reporting Tool and is a free Open Source Business Intelligence solution .ART is a lightweight,multiplatform, web based query tool and reporting environment. SQL queries can be published in a few minutes. Itsupports tabular, crosstab, charts, scheduling, email alerts, drill down, among other features. Results are exportable tospreadsheet/pdf, can be reversed to a database table (cached), can be embedded in a portal-like page or retrieved via asmartphone.
ART – A Reporting Tool (http://www.predictiveanalyticstoday.com/reporting-tool/)
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Dashboard.png)ART stands for A Reporting Tool
8. Pentaho ReportingPentaho Reporting are Open Source reporting tools for the creation of relational and analytical reports from a variety ofdata-sources. Report Designer is a desktop reporting tool that provides a visual design environment. Reporting Engine isan embeddable JAVA reporting library that is used by the report designer to generate reports. Reporting SoftwareDevelopers Kit (SDK) is a packaging of the Classic Engine.
Pentaho Reporting (http://www.predictiveanalyticstoday.com/pentaho-reporting/)
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9. JMagallanesThe open source project JMagallanes is an end user application for Olap and Dynamic Reports written in Java/J2EE. Itcombines static reports (based on JasperReports), a Swing pivot table for OLAP analysis, and charts (based onJFreeChart).
JMagallanes (http://jmagallanes.sourceforge.net/en/)
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10.OpenReportsOpenReports is a powerful, flexible, and easy to use open source web reporting solution that provides browser based,parameter driven, dynamic report generation and flexible report scheduling capabilities.
OpenReports (http://oreports.com/)
11.Seal ReportSeal Report is an Open Source for the Microsoft .Net Framework entirely written in C#. The main features includeDynamic SQL sources, Native Pivot Tables, HTML 5 Charts and Microsoft Charts, HTML Rendering using Razor engine,Web Report Server and Task scheduler. The Dynamic SQL sources use either the SQL or let the Seal engine builddynamically the SQL used to query the database. Native Pivot Tables let to simply drag and drop elements directly in apivot table (Cross Tab) and display them in report. HTML 5 Charts and Microsoft Charts are available to define anddisplay Chart Series in two mouse clicks. HTML Rendering using Razor engine make use of the power of HTML5 in thereport result such as JQuery Tabs, Tables sorting and filtering. Web Report Server publish the reports on the web.
Seal Report (http://www.predictiveanalyticstoday.com/seal-report/)
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12.OpenIOpenI provides a web-driven interface to build and publish interactive reports from OLAP data sources.OpenI provides aclean, intuitive interface to connect to different types of data sources, and to publish web-based interactivereports.OpenI is a J2EE web application, with the default implementation running on top of tomcat and uses data-sourcespecific report definition languages (RDL’s) to define and track the reports created on the platform
OpenI (http://openi.org/)
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13.NextReportsNextReports provides NextReports Designer, NextReports Engine and NextReports Server. NextReports Designer is anAdHoc Query and Reporting software that promotes simple, fast and powerful report creation, which runs on anyoperating system that supports Java 1.7 . NextReports Engine is a lightweight java reporting engine that could beembedded in any application or used on their own. NextReports Server is a reporting server that helps automatingproduction and delivery of business reports.
NextReports (http://www.next-reports.com/)
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14. RapidminerRapidminer is the leader in open source provider for data mining and business analytics. The community edition is opensource which can be downloaded from website.RapidMiner Server lets to run processes on enterprise hardware fromanywhere, without restrictions.
Rapidminer (http://www.predictiveanalyticstoday.com/rapidminer/)
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15. MondrianMondrian is an Open Source Business Analytics engine written in Java that enables business users access to their datafor interactive analysis. With Mondrian as Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) engine, business users can enablemultidimensional queries against data, using the MDX query language.
Mondrian (http://community.pentaho.com/projects/mondrian/)
16. KNIME
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KNIME, the Konstanz Information Miner is an open source data analytics, reporting and integration platform. KNIMEintegrates various components for machine learning and data mining through its modular data pipelining concept. Agraphical user interface allows assembly of nodes for data pre processing, for Extraction, Transformation, Loading, formodeling and data analysis and visualization.There are different modules for data integration such as file I/O, databasenodes supporting all common database management systems and data transformation such as filter, converter,combiner and for data analysis and visualization. Using Report Designer extension, KNIME workflows can be used asdata sets to create report templates that can be exported to different document formats.
KNIME (http://www.predictiveanalyticstoday.com/knime/)
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2) Free Cloud Business Intelligence Solutions:1.IBM Watson Analytics
Watson Analytics provides a freemium version of its cloud based service designed to run on desktop and mobile devicesis available. Watson Analytics can help business source the data, cleanse and refine it, discover insights, predictoutcomes, visualize results, create reports or dashboards, and collaborate with others. Watson Analytics offers a fullrange of self-service analytics, including access to easy-to-use data refinement and data warehousing services .WatsonAnalytics Free Edition, let to upload, storage and work with flat files with no more than 100,000 rows, 50 columns andtotal data storage of no more than 500 MB.
Watson Analytics (http://www.predictiveanalyticstoday.com/watson-analytics/)
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2.Microsoft Power BIPower BI, is a cloud based business analytics service, designed for non technical business users.Customers can keep apulse on their business via live operational dashboards with just any browser or a Power BI mobile app. They can deeplyexplore their business data, through interactive visual reports, and enrich it with additional data sources. Power BI lettoconnect to your data in minutes, with built in connectors and pre built dashboards and reports from a wide variety ofsources. Power BI Designer is a dedicated report authoring tool for the Power BI Preview service. The Data capacity limitfor free version is 1 GB, and support for streaming data, is 10K rows/hour.
Power BI (http://www.predictiveanalyticstoday.com/microsoft-power-bi/)
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3.SAP Lumira Cloud
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SAP Lumira Cloud helps quickly visualize large volumes of data without having to sacrifice performance or security.Designed to speed time to insight, it empowers users to discover hidden insights using mobile devices or in browser. SAPLumira cloud provides 1 GB of free storage to quickly analyze the data by uploading a spreadsheet and collaborate withcolleagues by sharing datasets, analytics and documents.
SAP Lumira Cloud (https://cloud.saplumira.com/landing-page.jsp)
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4.MicroStrategy Analytics ExpressMicroStrategy Analytics Express free version is a Software as a Service solution that enables business users to publishand share analytics for one year.Analytics Express free for one year version, supports mutilple ata sources hosted or on-premises and rovide analytics tools such as visual data discovery, Visual query builder tool, Interactive dashboards, PixelPerfect reports & dashboards, MicroStrategy Mobile access.
MicroStrategy Analytics Express (https://www.microstrategy.com/us/free/express/analytics-express-sign-in#register)
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5.Birst Express for NetSuiteBirst Express for NetSuite, is a free analytics module that NetSuite administrators can use to achieve greater operationalefficiency across their organization. Birst Express for NetSuite is part of the Birst analytics family, which includes BirstDiscovery and Birst Enterprise editions.Birst Express provides powerful data visualization, reporting and analytics toorganizations of all sizes.
Birst Express (http://www.birst.com/)
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3) Free Proprietary Business Intelligence Solutions1.EspressReport Lite
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EspressReport Lite is a Java report development tool kit from Quadbase. It comes with a reporting engine and a visualreport builder to build embedded reporting functionality into web based or standalone applications. With a robust JavaAPI, and visual design, query, and scheduling tools, EspressReport offers a fully embedded reporting component thatcan be integrated seamlessly in application, applet, servlet, and JSP code.EspressReport Lite provides the samecapabilities as premium, EspressReport except that sub-reports, drill-down, embedded charts and scheduling are notsupported.
EspressReport Lite (http://www.quadbase.com/espressreport-lite-1/)
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2. SAP LumiraSAP Lumira delivers beautiful analytics, allowing to easily convey and share knowledge to discover hidden patterns andtransform the business. SAP Lumira, personal edition build interactive visualizations to analyze spreadsheet data forinsights to analyse, share. This helps to surface the issues and spot anomalies immediately, and let you to drill intodetails or iterate with more data for a more complete picture.
SAP Lumira (http://www.predictiveanalyticstoday.com/sap-lumira/)
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3. QlikViewThe QlikView Business Discovery platform delivers true self service BI that empowers business users by drivinginnovative decision making. QlikView is used for consolidating relevant data from multiple sources into a singleapplication, exploring the associations in data, visualizing data, and enabling social decision making through secure, real-time collaboration.
QlikView Personal Edition is a free software.
QlikView Personal Edition (http://www.predictiveanalyticstoday.com/qlikview-personal-edition/)
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4.Style Scope Free EditionStyle Scope Free Edition from InetSoft Technology Corporation is a small footprint server that delivers web basedinteractive flash dashboards and visualizations that can be shared within an organization. It provides support for multisource data mashups and full admin and permission controls. Visualize Free is a visual analysis application that allowsusers to explore their own data visually and interactively. It requires no software installation. Style Chart is a chartingengine and JavaScript API for Web developers to embed charts and graphs in Web pages via AJAX.
InetSoft (http://www.inetsoft.com/)
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5. Qlik Sense DesktopQlik Sense Desktop is fully functional business intelligence software, available at no cost for personal and business use.Qlik Sense empowers business users to easily create personalized visualizations, reports and dashboards with drag-and-drop simplicity. It an installed Windows application which provides Drag-and-drop app creation and data loading andMulti-data source integration.
Qlik Sense Desktop (http://www.predictiveanalyticstoday.com/qlik-sense-desktop/)
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6.icCubeicCube is a business intelligence tool to analyze and get insights from a wide range of types of data possibly spread outacross multiple data sources. The icCube Server is an in memory multidimensional online analytical processing (OLAP)server written in Java. Along with the analytical engine, the icCube Server is featuring a web reporting server that isleveraging the multi dimensional concepts such as drilldown, slice, dice to create interactive web dashboards accessiblefrom PC and Table.
icCube community edition is a free software.
icCube (http://www.iccube.com/)
7. Tableau PublicTableau Public is a free data visualisation application used to create and share interactive charts graphs, stunning maps,live dashboards and fun applications in minutes, then to publish that anywhere on the web.
Tableau Public (http://www.predictiveanalyticstoday.com/tableau-public/)
4) Open Source Commercial Business Intelligence Solution1.Pentaho
Pentaho offers a suite of open source Business Intelligence products called Pentaho Business Analytics providing dataintegration, 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 extrafeatures not found in the community edition. The enterprise edition is obtained through an annual subscription andincludes extra support services. Pentaho’s core offering is frequently enhanced by add-on products, usually in the formof plugins, from the company itself and also the broader community of users and enthusiasts.Mondrian is an opensource OLAP server, written in Java. It supports the MDX (multidimensional expressions) query language and the XML. Itreads from SQL and other data sources and aggregates data in a memory cache.
Pentaho (http://www.predictiveanalyticstoday.com/pentaho-community-edition/)
2.JaspersoftJaspersoft 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 licensingaround the JasperReports, JasperReports Server, Jaspersoft Studio, iReport, and Jaspersoft ETL products. Jaspersoft’smain related product is JasperReports Server, a Java web application that provides advanced report server capabilities
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such as report scheduling, permissions, ad hoc reporting, dashboards, and multi-tenancy. It is offered in a communityopen source edition as well as under several commercial editions with broad support for various databases and datasources, including NoSQL and other big data datasources.
Jaspersoft (http://www.predictiveanalyticstoday.com/jasperreports-server/)
3.PaloPalo is a memory resident multidimensional (online analytical processing (OLAP) or multidimensional online analyticalprocessing (MOLAP)) database server and typically used as a business intelligence tool for controlling and budgetingpurposes with spreadsheet software acting as the user interface. Beyond the multidimensional data concept, Paloenables multiple users to share one centralised data storage.
Jedox OLAP Server continues to be offered free of charge as commercial open source software under the name of PALO.There is also an open-source integration with OpenOffice named PalOOCa (Palo for OpenOffice.org Calc).
Palo (http://www.predictiveanalyticstoday.com/jedox-base-business-intelligence/)
4.Actuate CorporationActuate Corporation is creation of the open source Eclipse BIRT business data reporting project launched by the EclipseFoundation in 2004. Actuate’s primary commercial offerings include the BIRT Designers, and the BIRT iHub developmentand deployment platform for developers.
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5. TACTICTACTIC is a dynamic, open-source, web-based platform that allows users to manage the development and delivery ofdigital assets through the entire content creation process. Designed for busy work environments with high volumes ofcontent traffic, TACTIC streamlines workflow by applying business logic to disparate data and file system environmentsand to dynamically visualize every aspect through web based delivery. The platform seamlessly combines elements ofDAM, PAM, CMS and ECM technologies, offering users a set of tools to create a wide range of customized enterpriseworkflow solutions.
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Mpumelelo MsimangaMay 20, 2014 at 1:45 am (http://www.predictiveanalyticstoday.com/open-source-free-business-intelligence-solutions/#comment-5701) Thanks for the list, didn’t know about some of the software on the list. One more to add to your list is ART, http://art.sourceforge.net (http://art.sourceforge.net).Supports OLAP via Mondrian, JasperReports, Excel reports and simple SQL reports. Lesser know but in my opinion the ideal tool for smaller environments.
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epf (http://sealreport.codeplex.com/)February 3, 2015 at 5:49 am (http://www.predictiveanalyticstoday.com/open-source-free-business-intelligence-solutions/#comment-33673) Thank you for your listing.If you are in the Windows world, may I suggest also to have a look at Seal Report (http://sealreport.codeplex.com/ (http://sealreport.codeplex.com/)), this opensource reporting tool is 100% .Net C# and focus on operational reporting…
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vikramFebruary 11, 2015 at 1:50 am (http://www.predictiveanalyticstoday.com/open-source-free-business-intelligence-solutions/#comment-33767) Which are BI Tools good for ‘customization of BI software’Thanks in advance
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