in this reports, we breakdown a list of tableau
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Tableau BI:
Analysis of Top Alternatives
Lots of companies have heard about Tableau Software, a top-rated business intelligence product. Their products include Tableau Public, Tableau Desktop, Tableau Server and Tableau Online – all viable business intelligence tools. But there are lots of other attractive Tableau alternatives that make good use of business data assets through cloud-based and self-service business intelligence.
In this reports, we breakdown a list of Tableau competitors that have gotten the highest scores from our analysts and business intelligence software user community.
Which Tableau alternatives
should you consider?
Here is a list of Tableau competitors that have attained the highest scores from our business intelligence software user community:
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Table of Contents
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BI Competitors Overview ………………………….…………………….. 5
SAP ……………………………………………………………………………...... 5
QlikView ……………………………………………………………....…………... 6
IBM Cognos Analytics ……………………..…………………………………….. 7
Oracle BI ………...………………………..………………………………………. 8
Sisense …………………………………………………………..………………... 9
Dundas BI ……………………..………………………………………………….. 10
Microsoft Power BI ………………….………………………………………….... 11
Microstrategy Analytics ………………………………………………………….. 12
Domo ………………………………………………..…………………………….. 13
Birst …………………………………………………….………………………….. 14
Feature Comparison ………………….………………………………….. 15
Platform Functions ……………………………………………………………….. 16
Data Visualization ……….…………………………………………………….... 19
Analytics ……………….....……………………………………………………….. 22
Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) ………………………………………….. 28
Document Management ……….……..……………………………………….... 31
Decision Services ……...………………………………..……………………….. 33
Integrations ……………………....……………………………………………….. 37
Big Data Integration ……….………..………………………………………….... 40
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SAP BusinessObjects
As a major provider of enterprise technology, SAP offers its own business intelligence platform, BusinessObjects, which is one of the strongest Tableau software competitors. BusinessObjects is designed to provide real-time business intelligence from any source while streamlining decision-making processes by putting data in accessible formats.
SAP stresses that its platform is able to “personalize” and customize the acquisition of data in ways that better reach customers. With ad-hoc reporting, multidimensional analysis and in-memory solutions with SAP’s HANA architecture, there’s a lot of functionality built into5
BusinessObjects that’s attractive to customers.
SAP BusinessObjects provides interactive visualization features. These enable end-users to create their own BI content using an easy-to-use interface. The solution allows users to visualize, mash up, manipulate and explore a wide range of data, although it requires prerequisite knowledge of the tool. The solution offers different types of customization as per users’ requirements.
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This BI software, like Tableau, offers some great solutions to everyday problems. QlikSense, Qlikview’s guided analytics tool, helps guide decision-making through the use of compiled data.
QlikView provides an interactive dashboard experience to its users. The solution enables business users to freely explore and find connections, patterns and outliers in data without having to model those relationships in advance. The solution is very user-friendly but prerequisite knowledge is required to get the most out of it. It also offers multiple
customizable features as well as dashboards.
Users can utilize the new Nprinting reporting and analytics feature for accessible, polished visualization reports. Qlikview customers also have the option to track and formulate data via customized dashboards for all the tools from the Office suite.
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IBM Cognos Analytics
IBM’s Cognos Analytics is another popular business intelligence software similar to Tableau for enterprise customers. As a self-service BI tool, Cognos features web-based delivery and any-device functionality. Users can create online and offline reports that can provide information even when systems are down.
IBM Cognos BI provides interactive data visualizations that enable users to more easily identify performance issues and apply corrective actions. IBM Cognos Mobile also supports interactive visualizations such as animations and graphics. The solution is very user-friendly and required maintenance 7
can be kept at a minimum. Cognos BI offers a customized version of the suit as per the user’s requirements.
Cognos can help you with departmental data silos and make information transparent across an entire enterprise system. Handling elements like supply chain and inventory, it allows companies to handle materials more intelligently and make use of diverse data sources.
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Oracle BI
Oracle, another software like Tableau, also offers competitive intelligence platforms. Oracle tools feature visual analysis tools with rapid in-memory processing drawn from diverse data sources. Users can also take advantage of Oracle’s voice-recognition feature and seamless analytics for both web and on-premise systems.
Oracle BI supports enterprise visualization functionality. It allows users to select a “recommended visualization” that provides custom guidance on the basis of data sets and the intent of analysis. The solution helps generate data-driven insights and
data visualizations tailored specifically to analyst’s requirements.
The solution offers a customizable platform and features which can vary per user requirements. Oracle has also worked to allow for an easy installation and management.
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Sisense
Sisense BI is a robust platform that provides interactive BI reports with customizable dashboards. The solution offers a customizable interface to meet user’s unique requirements. It automatically recommends charts or graphs on selecting a relevant set of data. This BI software, like Tableau, provides an option to present data in various charts and animations. Sisense also supports automated geocoding based on address data.
Sisense ensures compliance with regulations using a data-driven approach. The solution enables tracking logins, dashboard and widget usage. Users can also import data along with information on the user and their associated timestamp. In addition, the solution helps monitor 9
threats and support consulting requirements of the client by providing complex data analysis.
This BI tool facilitates visualization of multiple sets of data sources on a single dashboard. The solution allows users to drill down to the most granular raw data across all data sources. It is integrated with statistical language enabling data to be passed between databases and the system to execute predictive statistical functions.
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Dundas BI
With Dundas BI software, users can import and export data to any device, as well as connect relational databases, MS Excel, web services, and other formats. New version features include new data transformation tools, data generators, quick filters, and scaling modes.
Dundas BI is a strong solution that supports drilling down/up, filtering, sorting, changing levels, re-visualizing, zooming-in/out, expanding and collapsing of data sets. The solution also offers several customizable features and dashboards making it user-friendly.
Dundas positions its software as a quick self-service BI solution and gives users a choice of single-click in-memory or on-the-fly data analysis. This tools innovation is a large part of its appeal and showcasing aggregate data sets, including creative multi-dimensional pie charts. Drag-and-drop functionality helps save time when putting slideshows together, documents and so on.
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Microsoft Power BI
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Microsoft also offers one of the best alternatives to Tableau. Microsoft Power BI provides interactive dashboard capabilities, customizable reports and powerful analysis.
Microsoft Power BI provides a simple and intuitive platform that is customizable. Additionally, it helps users interact with data and develop interactive visualizations in real time.
Using desktop and mobile tools, Microsoft Power BI allows customers to import data from programs like Excel spreadsheets, SQL servers, on-premise documents and Hadoop clusters. It allows users to transform and clean data, then work with lifecycle processes to visualize data in an ordered way.
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Microstrategy Analytics
Microstrategy Analytics links Big Data, cloud data and the contents of relational databases to deliver information to users. Then it visualizes that data via a range of charts and mapping views.This solution supports advanced predictive analytics through its native algorithms and scoring functions. The solution also supports integration with third-party data mining and open-source statistical tools via MicroStrategy SDK.
Microstrategy allows users to analyze social media data across platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Google Drive, Dropbox, etc. You can also build custom
web reporting applications by using MicroStrategy SDK. This BI application provides real-time data exploration and forecasting on multiple as well as single business questions.
Microstrategy Enterprise Analytics & Mobility provides a user-friendly interactive interface enabling users to discover patterns, trends and relationships hidden in raw data with a suite of intuitive and interactive data discovery tools. With a powerful metadata repository, Microstrategy catalogs and stores business information for users to retrieve and apply at a later time. 12
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Domo
Domo’s Centerview offers powerful Tableau competition enabling visual representation of data to identify patterns, trends and correlations. The solution has a card builder offering simple drag-and-drop functionality, plus, it is very user-friendly and easy to use.
Domo Centerview provides platform customization to offer the right data insights for unique users. The solution also has a visual ETL application built into the product, which can be integrated with GPS tracking data that can be represented in the form of maps. This BI tool provides an extensive range of charts to create meaningful data visualization.
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Domo enables collaboration via multi-entity comparison on multiple metrics. The solution allows users to explore multiple predictive models along with what-if scenario analysis to offer adequate prescriptive actions. Domo’s Centerview integrates with Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, etc. to provide easy access to social media data and helps visualize all the data in one intuitive dashboard. The solution provides real-time updates to users, enabling powerful reporting on one platform.
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Birst
Another BI resource that’s getting a lot of attention comes from Birst, a lesser-known name among Tableau competition but one that promises to disrupt the business intelligence space.
This Tableau alternative provides graphic benchmark tools enabling users to compare metrics and data to other projects, companies or industries. Birst BI allows users to utilize different sources to analyze current and past information in order to predict future events. It integrates with Birst Snap, a tool by SnapLogic. Together they provide insights by merging social and web data with operational systems for visualization of social media sentiment.
The solution helps create over 30 different chart types including heat maps and
geo-maps. The solution is enabled with single query analysis as well as in-memory analysis and statistical analysis. The solution also provides real-time data analysis with trend indicators and is embedded with Machine Learning.
Birst has a simple user interface and can be customized per customers’ requirements. With a User Data Tier built on a multi-tenant cloud architecture which constitutes a platform that supports collaboration, Birst Automated Data Refinement (ADR) refines data to create a Unified Business Model.
Birst Infinite Connectivity Framework helps companies hook up diverse sources of incoming data, from CRMs to databases to Hadoop to spreadsheets.
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Platform Functions
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Tableau ServerTableau Server provides real-time interactive dashboards which enable users to explore data and present it in a customized way with help of different dynamic charts and graphs. The solution is user-friendly, although it requires small updations to make the user interface more smooth. It does not support platform customization.
SAP BusinessObjectsSAP BusinessObjects provides interactive visualization feature enabling end-users to create their own BI content using an easy-to-use interface. The solution allows users to visualize, mash up, manipulate, and explore a wide range of data, although it requires prerequisite knowledge of the tool. The solution offers different types of customization as per users' requirements.
Platform FunctionsInteractive
VisualizationUser friendly
Platform
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Tableau Server Good Yes Yes No
SAP BusinessObjects Excellent Yes Yes Yes
Qlikview Excellent Yes Yes Yes
IBM Cognos BI Excellent Yes Yes Yes
Oracle BI Excellent Yes Yes Yes
Sisense BI Excellent Yes Yes Yes
Dundas BI Excellent Yes Yes Yes
Microsoft Power BI Excellent Yes Yes Yes
MicroStrategy Excellent Yes Yes Yes
Domo Excellent Yes Yes Yes
Birst BI Excellent Yes Yes Yes
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Platform FunctionsQlikviewQlikView provides an interactive dashboard experience to its users. The solution enables business users to freely explore and find connections, patterns, and outliers in data without having to model those relationships in advance. The solution is very user-friendly but prerequisite knowledge is required. It also offers multiple customizable features as well as dashboards.
IBM Cognos BIIBM Cognos BI provides interactive data visualizations that enable users to more easily identify performance issues and apply corrective actions. IBM Cognos Mobile also supports interactive visualizations such as animation, and graphics. The solution is very much user-friendly and required maintenance is minimum. Cognos BI offers customized version of the suit as per user's requirement.
Oracle BIOracle BI provides supports enterprise application visualization functionality. It allows users to select a 'recommended visualization' that provides custom guidance on the basis of data sets and intent of analysis. The solution helps generate data-driven insights and data visualizations tailored specifically to analyst’s requirements.The solution offers customizable platform, features on which can vary as per users requirement.
Sisense BISisense BI is a robust platform that provides interactive BI reports with customizable dashboards. The solution offers a customizable interface to meet the user's requirements.
Dundas BIDundas BI is a strong solution that supports drill down/up, filter, sort, change level, re-visualize, zoom-in/out, expand/collapse. The solution also offers several customizable features and dashboards making it user-friendly.
Microsoft Power BIMicrosoft Power BI provides a simple and intuitive platform that is customizable and helps users to interact with data and develop interactive visualizations in real-time.
MicroStrategyMicroStrategy Enterprise Analytics & Mobility provides a user-friendly interactive interface enabling users to discover patterns, trends, and relationships hidden in raw data with a suite of intuitive and interactive data discovery tools.
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Platform FunctionsDomoDomo's Centerview is a powerful solution enabling visual representation of data to identify patterns, trends and correlations. The solution has a card builder helping users in visualization by simple drag and drop functionality. The solution is very much user-friendly and easy to use. Centerview provides platform customization to offer the right data insights for users.
Birst BIBirst BI provides an extensive library of interactive visualizations that allow users to explore data in various formats. Birst BI has a simple user interface and can be customized as per customers' requirements.
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Feature Comparison:
Data Visualization
Tableau ServerTableau Server enables users to make queries using visual query language (VizQL) and to present data visually. The solution provides storyboarding feature that helps users create intelligent business reports. New Spatial File Connector allows users to leverage spatial data directly in Tableau for powerful geospatial analysis. The solution also supports data representation using different predefined charts and animations.
SAP BusinessObjectsSAP BusinessObjects allows users to make SQL queries and draw insights from data by using ad-hoc reporting feature, which allows users to send a request for specific data or information. The solution provides storyboarding capabilities. In addition to supporting visualizations and filters, SAP's storyboards let users add images and text boxes for titles or paragraphs. Users can also create infographics by adding pictograms and shapes to the storyboards. The solution supports geospatial integration with sources such as Esri GIS and
Data VisualizationVisual
QueryingStoryboarding
Geospatial
IntegrationAutocharting Animations
Tableau Server Good Yes Yes Yes No Yes
SAP
BusinessObjects Excellent Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Qlikview Excellent Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
IBM Cognos BI Excellent Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Oracle BI Excellent Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Sisense BI Excellent Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Dundas BI Excellent Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Microsoft Power BI Excellent Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
MicroStrategy Adequate Yes Yes Yes No No
Domo Good Yes No Yes Yes No
Birst BI Adequate Yes No No Yes No
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Data VisualizationHERE (formerly NAVTEQ). The solution offers charts suggestion and different animations for representation of data in the suitable form.
QlikviewQlikView supports data querying across Big Data repositories and QlikView caches for quick recall. The solution allows users to make unlimited ad-hoc queries without requiring explicit knowledge of data structures and hierarchies. The solution lets users create their own 'data storyboard'. The solution lays out all the major actions that occur when the analysis is being performed by the users in the application. The solution supports geospatial integration with GeoQlick. The solution offers verities of pre-defined charts to present data which can also be animated for elaborate representation.
IBM Cognos BIIBM Cognos BI enables users to run visual queries through IBM Cognos Dynamic Query Analyzer. The solution presents data in form of visuals or views allowing users to run queries on the data available in active views. The solution enables storyboarding by allowing users to integrate interactive charts, graphs, live videos, etc. in their presentations. The storytelling feature provided by IBM Cognos BI provides 'pinning' option that lets users select any widget and pin it to the demand toolbar while exploring other dashboards Cognos BI supports geospatial integration with Esri Maps. The solution suggests different charts and animations for suitable data representation.
Oracle BIOracle BI provides supports enterprise application visualization functionality. It allows users to select a 'recommended visualization' that provides custom guidance on the basis of data sets and intent of analysis. The solution helps generate data-driven insights and data visualizations tailored specifically to analyst’s requirements. The solution offers customizable platform, features on which can vary as per users requirement.
Sisense BISisense BI automatically recommend charts or graphs on selecting a relevant set of data. The solution also provides an option to present data in various charts and animations. The solution also supports automated geocoding based on address data.
Dundas BIDundas BI is a robust solution that allows users to use visual data discovery and analytics via inbuilt formulas. The solution allows users to create and share stories. The solution also provides inbuilt maps using ESRI shape files allowing users to view data on color-coded shapes ("choropleth") or plot customizable symbols using geographic coordinates. The solution can also be integrated with Bing maps. The solution enables effective data representation by preparing customized charts, tables and animations.
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Data Visualizationsolution can also be integrated with Bing maps. The solution enables effective data representation by preparing customized charts, tables and animations.
Microsoft Power BIMicrosoft Power BI provides a strong dashboard and scorecard functionality including advanced filtering, guided navigation, interactive analytics, and visualization. Power View and Power Map also support visual data exploration with ad-hoc interactive reporting and geospatial analysis. The solution offers Power View add-in that enables users to present and share insights with others through rich storyboard presentation capabilities. The solution supports geospatial integration with SQL Server Geospatial engine, BING maps and Esri ArcGIS maps. The solution also offers various charts suggestion and animation to represent data in a customized and explanatory way.
MicroStrategyMicroStrategy Enterprise Analytics & Mobility allows users to build SQL queries easily by using a web-based visual interface. The data engines automatically optimize queries for each specific data source, ensuring the best performance outcome for users. The solution provides the storyboarding feature through a mobile app, MicroStrategy Mobile QuickStrike. The solution also supports geospatial integration with Esri Maps, Google Maps and 3rd party GIS partners including PB MapInfo, and Visual Crossing.
DomoDomo's Centerview supports visual querying on mobile. The solution has a visual ETL solution built in the product. Domo's Centerview is integrated with GPS enabling data to be represented in the form of maps. The solution provides extensive range of charts to create meaningful data visualization.
Birst BIBirst BI allows users to perform custom calculations with lookups and statistical functions using Birst’s logical query language. The solution enables users to draw useful insights from the data. Birst BI does not provide storyboarding feature. Birst BI provides GPS integration and allows users to create charts and visuals that can change with location. Birst BI offers embedded charts for best possible visualization.
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Analytics
Tableau ServerTableau Server provides benchmarking tools that let users compare business performance and determine the gaps. The solution also provides predictive analytical capabilities that yield trend lines, forecasts, and predictions based on the behind-the-scenes algorithmic analysis. The solution supports rich time-series analysis and predictive analyses like forecasting and allows users to perform other common time-series operations. Tableau supports Facebook, Twitter, and Social Media Analytics. The solution helps users to analyze social media performance and drive deeper, actionable insights on social media channels and audience. It also supports web analytics by integrating with Google Analytics, Google BigQuery, and Google Adwords. The solution also connects with Splunk, Google Sheets, SAP and Salesforce thereby allowing users to gather comprehensive web analytics by combining all sales, marketing, email and digital channels.
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Analytics BenchmarkingPredictive
Analytics
Social Media
Analytics
Web
Analytics
Geolocation
Analysis
Tableau Server Good Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
SAP BusinessObjects Excellent Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Qlikview Excellent Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
IBM Cognos BI Adequate Yes Yes Yes - Partial No Yes
Oracle BI Good Yes Yes Yes Yes - Partial Yes
Sisense BI Excellent Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Dundas BI Good Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Microsoft Power BI Good Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
MicroStrategy Good Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes - Partial
Domo Excellent Yes Yes - Partial Yes Yes Yes
Birst BI Good Yes Yes Yes Yes - Partial Yes
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Analytics
SAP BusinessObjectsSAP BusinessObjects provides advanced predictive analytics capabilities. The solution utilizes a variety of sources to analyze current and past information in order to predict future events. The solution enables users to gain insights across social data. Users can collect unstructured data from various social media sources such as Facebook, Twitter, and blogs. The solution provides web analytics via SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence software which can provide users with flexible, intuitive ad hoc reporting tools and interactive analytics on multiple platforms such as the web, desktop, or mobile devices. The solution provides geolocation analysis through SAP BusinessObjects BI Location Intelligence which helps users to combine geographic visualization content from sources such as Esri GIS. Users can develop location intelligence by combining spatial data with reporting analytics. The solution is enabled with indicators like Trend and Issue and offers analysis of unstructured text and allow users to examine different databases. SAP BusinessObjects does not support benchmarking functionality.
AnalyticsAd Hoc
Analysis
Issue
Indicators
Trend
Indicators
Profit
Analysis
In-Memory
Analysis
Tableau Server Good Yes No Yes Yes Yes
SAP BusinessObjects Excellent Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Qlikview Excellent Yes No Yes Yes Yes
IBM Cognos BI Adequate Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Oracle BI Good Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Sisense BI Excellent Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Dundas BI Good Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Microsoft Power BI Good Yes No Yes Yes Yes
MicroStrategy Good Yes No Yes Yes Yes
Domo Excellent Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Birst BI Good Yes No Yes No Yes
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Analytics
QlikviewQlikView enables users to benchmark results across multiple parameters over different periods of time. The solution helps users measure business performance and easily spot trends and outliers. The solution provides advanced predictive analytics that allows users to predict business risks, reduce operational costs, improve time to market and increase return on investment. The solution for Social Media Analytics enables users to analyze data on digital platforms for informed decision making. The solution allows users to visualize both current and historical social data from Twitter, Foursquare, Disqus and many other sources using Gnip's dashboard and data discovery engine. The solution supports various data analysis features such as web analytics. The solution allows collection, analysis, and reporting of web data for purposes of understanding and optimizing web usage. The solution features a location analytics engine, QlikMaps that offers powerful and intuitive location-based analytics. The solution helps combining maps with demographics, consumer spending, weather data, crime statistics and other parameters to provide a rich, geocentric view. The solution is enabled to analyze data on specific nodes, unstructured text and user 24
AnalyticsText
Analytics
Statistic
AnalyticsData Mining
Real-time
DataForecasting
Machine
Learning
Tableau Server Good No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
SAP BusinessObjects Excellent Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Qlikview Excellent Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
IBM Cognos BI Adequate Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes
Oracle BI Good Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Sisense BI Excellent Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Dundas BI Good No Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Microsoft Power BI Good Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
MicroStrategy Good Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Domo Excellent No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Birst BI Good No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
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Analyticscan also run queries on data residing on system's memory. The solution can examine large databases in real-time and also allows users to forecast future trends on the basis of previous datasets.
IBM Cognos BIIBM Cognos BI provides benchmarking tools that help users to compare metrics and data to other projects, processes or companies. The solution provides an integrated data science, predictive analytics, and machine learning solution. Users can perform 'what-if' analysis along with estimating future demand or supply conditions based on industry trends Cognos BI connects seamlessly with IBM Social Media Analytics software helping organizations become more responsive to customer needs and opinions. IBM Social Media Analytics enables marketing professionals to transform customer relationships by actively incorporating insights gained from social data analytics into the GTM strategy. The solution helps to embed live, interactive, high impact maps into IBM Cognos reports via integration with Esri maps. The solution helps users connect spatial filtering tools, global data, and map visualization for an insightful geolocation analysis and reporting. The solution allows users to analyze data on the node to node basis. The solution points out different patterns in the data to enable users to follow different trends. The solution allows users to analyze data to follow gains and losses. The solution is enabled with in-memory query processing for faster decision making. Unstructured text data is analyzed through Cognos Content Analytics. Cognos BI includes IBM Cognos Statistics which enable the use of statistical objects. The solution is enabled to work and analyze large data sets to generate new information.
Oracle BIOracle BI supports enterprise performance management via Hyperion Performance Scorecard that helps companies to benchmark projects or processes and to monitor key performance indicators. The solution provides advanced predictive analytics that enables users to make accurate forecasts, group statistically similar elements and identify outliers. The solution can be easily extended to various functional packages available on public domain. The solution supports web analytics by integrating with Oracle Hyperion Web Analysis tool, which unifies collection, analysis, and reporting of web data to understand and optimize web usage. The solution lets users handle maps, drill down to information based on a specific region, or use location specific data, i.e., location intelligence for in-depth geolocation analysis. The solution supports specific single query analysis and is equipped with Issue Indicators, Text Analysis, In-memory Analysis, Data mining and real-time analysis.
Sisense BISisense BI is a powerful tool that facilitates visualization of multiple sets of data sources 25
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Analyticsa single dashboard. The solution allows users to drill down to the most granular raw data across all data sources. The solution is integrated with statistical language enabling data to be passed between Sisense and R to execute predictive statistical functions. The solution allows users to calculate correlation, variance, rank and others to perform advanced statistical analysis on complex data sets. The solution also allows users to dissect data sets from multiple disparate sources with minimal data preparation. The solution connects natively to a variety of web analytics platforms like Google Analytics.
Dundas BIDundas BI allows users to compare data from multiple sources. The solution facilitates forecasting through built-in formulae. The solution can be connected to social media sources such as Facebook and Twitter can be easily configured via ODBC connection or by creating a custom connection via the open API. A built-in connector allows users to connect with Google Analytics data and quickly start analyzing it. The solution enables users to handle single specific business query and also points to any specific issue with data. The solution also allows users to analyze statistical data for profit gains in real time.
Microsoft Power BIMicrosoft Power BI provides graphical benchmarking tools that help users compare metrics and data with other projects, companies or industries. The solution combines SQL Server predictive analytics with Excel to provide a highly advanced data mining solution. The solution allows users to import and visualize data from social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Users can connect to a specific page, apply data transformation steps, and create data visualizations. The solution offers powerful web analytics by integrating with Google Analytics. The solution allows users to analyze and compare web performance data. The solution integrates with SQL Server Geospatial engine, BING and Esri ArcGIS maps to deliver an interactive and seamless geolocation analytical experience.
MicroStrategyMicroStrategy Enterprise Analytics & Mobility supports advanced predictive analytics through its native algorithms and scoring functions. The solution also supports integration with third-party data mining and open source statistical tools via MicroStrategy SDK. The solution allows users to analyze social media data across platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Google Drive, Dropbox, etc. The solution provides a robust web analytics and data visualization engine. The solution enables users to build custom web reporting applications by using MicroStrategy SDK. The solution enables users to easily use maps and perform geolocation analysis. The advanced mapping features include markers, clusters, layers, shapes, and more. The solution provides real-time data exploration and forecasting on multiple as well as single business questions. 26
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AnalyticsDomoDomo's Centerview enables multi-entity comparison on multiple metrics. The solution offers period-over-period visualizations facilitating comparison of various metrics over a period of time. Domo's Centerview integrated with Predictive Toolkit, an advanced three-step predictive analytics app from Big Squid. The solution allows users to explore multiple predictive models along with what-if scenario analysis to offer adequate prescriptive actions. Domo's Centerview integrates with Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, etc. to provide easy access to social media data and helps visualize all the data in one intuitive dashboard. The solution provides real-time updates to the users thereby enabling powerful reporting on one platform. Domo's Centerview helps users track and analyze web data from sources such as Google Analytics. The solution integrated web analytics with CRM and financial reporting to provide real-time reports. Domo's Centerview offers geocoding supported by GPS to provide location-based analysis. The solution allowing users to target customers basis current activities and locations. The solution is enabled to analyze data on the basis of a single user query and points out different patterns and issue with the data. The solution can also analyze large datasets in real time and can learn from the previous issues as well.
Birst BIBirst BI provides graphic benchmark tools enabling users to compare metrics and data to other projects, companies or industries. Birst BI allows users to utilize different sources to analyze current and past information in order to predict future events. The solution integrates with Birst Snap, an integration tool by SnapLogic to provide insights by merging social and Web data across Twitter, Facebook, and Google Analytics with operational systems for visualization of social media sentiment. The solution helps create over 30 different chart types including heat maps and geo-maps. The solution is enabled with single query analysis as well as In-Memory Analysis and statistic Analysis. The solution also provides real-time data analysis with trend indicators and is embedded with Machine Learning.
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Online Analytical Processing (OLAP)
Tableau ServerTableau Server enables users to easily and selectively extract and view data from different dimensions. The solution also provides data drilling, data explorations, and time-series auto-generation capabilities. It allows users to filter data, drill down or add entirely new data to their analysis.
SAP BusinessObjectsSAP BusinessObjects allows users to access all OLAP sources within an organization. The solution enables users to perform multidimensional analysis and carry-out complex calculations, trend analysis and data modeling with ease and efficiency. The solution provides data drilling capabilities that enable users to print, export, and drill-down into charts and other report objects over the web. The solution is enabled with static data visualization and can specific time interval data points. 28
Online Analytical Processing (OLAP)Multi-Dimensio
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Tableau Server Excellent Yes Yes Yes Yes
SAP BusinessObjects Excellent Yes Yes Yes Yes
Qlikview Excellent Yes Yes Yes Yes
IBM Cognos BI Excellent Yes Yes Yes Yes
Oracle BI Excellent Yes Yes Yes Yes
Sisense BI Excellent Yes Yes Yes No
Dundas BI Excellent Yes Yes Yes No
Microsoft Power BI Excellent Yes Yes Yes Yes
MicroStrategy Excellent Yes Yes Yes Yes
Domo Excellent Yes Yes Yes No
Birst BI Excellent Yes Yes Yes Yes
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Online Analytical Processing (OLAP)QlikviewQlikView supports online analytical processing (OLAP). The solution provides quick and easy access to data from an existing report. The solution's hybrid approach enables users to drill-down to the detailed measures stored in the big data sources from in-memory data sets. The solution can also perform data exploration in depth and in real time.
IBM Cognos BIIBM Cognos BI supports online analytical processing (OLAP) that lets users explore, query and analyze data on their own in interactive workspaces. The solution provides data drilling capabilities which enable users to examine report details to find a root cause, navigate through hierarchies of data and discover issues that need attention and action. The solution uses IBM Cognos Analysis Studio for data exploration and also customizable time series analysis.
Oracle BIOracle BI supports OLAP analytics capabilities via Oracle OLAP. It allows users to perform multidimensional analysis, complex calculations, trend analysis and data modeling using simple SQL queries. The solution helps users drill-down to view data fields in detail or drill-up to reduce data fields. Users can easily drill-down data in a table, graphs and map views. The solution elaborate data using various techniques and can also generates data points at predefined intervals.
Sisense BISisense BI's proprietary InChip technology allows users to drill data only by right clicking on any pivot table and chart. The solution facilitates statistical analysis and data visualization.
Dundas BIDundas BI offers integration with OLAP cubes including SQL Server analysis services (both multidimensional and tabular models, SAP BW cubes and Oracle Essbase cubes). The solution also offers Visual Analytics for fast data exploration.
Microsoft Power BIMicrosoft Power BI lets users perform insightful analysis by including data-mining results as dimensions in online analytical procession (OLAP) cubes. The solution enables users to develop reports against Jet Enterprise OLAP Cubes. The solution provides data mining service that lets users create prediction queries, retrieve model patterns and statistics, and drill-down to the case data. The solution is also enabled to generate a sequence of data point to index the data.
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Online Analytical Processing (OLAP)MicroStrategyMicroStrategy Enterprise Analytics & Mobility integrates with OLAP to maintain a consolidated view of information, and at the same time lets users access reports, create metrics, group rows, and modify filter criteria at high speed. The solution is certified with Apache Drill. This allows the analysts to instantly explore Big Data in any format. Furthermore, end users gain direct access to semi- and unstructured data, without the need to first approach IT for any schema creation and/or maintenance. The solution also generates a sequence of data points with help of time series metrics.
DomoDomo's Centerview provides multidimensional analytic functionality through OLAP Cube Oracle Database. The solution allows users to raise complex analytical queries with quick execution time. Domo's Centerview allows users to access details by drilling down into the dataset through an integration provided by OLAP Cube Oracle Database. The solution offers different visualization techniques for critical business information in real time.
Birst BIBirst BI's relational OLAP (ROLAP) engine includes aggregations, cell-based calculations, slicers, prompts, and filters. Positional calculations allow users to compare a data point to values elsewhere regardless of original data source. All analytic functions including business rules, multi-pass calculations, and custom measures are available via a point-and-click interface. Birst BI provides an interface that allows users to drill down into reports can also explore data using different statical and visualization techniques.
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Document Management
Tableau ServerTableau Server allows the users to export reports from the platform in pdf, image (.png), crosstab (.csv, human readable) and data (.csv, machine-readable) format. The solution also allows users to view past versions of any report.
SAP BusinessObjectsSAP BusinessObjects provides tools that allow users to export reports across a number of channels including the web, mobile, and e-mail. The solution supports file export in following formats .PDF, .TXT, .XLS, .XLSX and .CSV. SAP BO offers version control though Lifecycle Management Tool (LCM).
QlikviewQlikView allows the users to export reports from the platform into a variety of file formats such as .XLS, .PDF, .HTML, .XML, etc. Distribution of PDF reports is possible through
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Document Management Export Versioning
Tableau Server Excellent Yes Yes
SAP BusinessObjects Excellent Yes Yes
Qlikview Excellent Yes Yes
IBM Cognos BI Excellent Yes Yes
Oracle BI Excellent Yes Yes
Sisense BI Partial Yes No
Dundas BI Partial Yes No
Microsoft Power BI Partial Yes No
MicroStrategy Excellent Yes Yes
Domo Partial Yes No
Birst BI Partial Yes No
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Document Management QlikView PDF Report Distribution add-on module. Users can track changes through a version control system in the solution.
IBM Cognos BIIBM Cognos BI allows users to export reports from the platform into a variety of file formats such as HTML, XML, PDF, MS Excel and CSV. The solution allows version control with the help of few extensions.
Oracle BIOracle BI allows users to export reports from the platform into a variety of file formats such as PDF, MS Excel or a PowerPoint presentation. The solution is compatible with different version control add-ons.
Sisense BISisense BI allows users to export files in various formats including Excel and PDF.
Dundas BIDundas BI support data export to MS-Excel, MS-Power-Point, PDF and image format. The export can be done manually or scheduled to run automatically and push the exported content to email or shared folders.
Microsoft Power BIMicrosoft Power BI enables users to render reports in a variety of formats, including the new Office format for Word and Excel, as well as PDF, TIFF, and HTML. Not much information is available online whether the solution supports Versioning.
MicroStrategyMicroStrategy Enterprise Analytics & Mobility allows users to export reports from the platform into a variety of file formats such as XLS, PDF, CSV and MS Access formats. The solution is also equipped with version control.
DomoDomo's Centerview allows users to export a dataset to Excel, CSV or powerpoint. Not much information is available regarding Versioning.
Birst BIBirst BI allows files to be exported to PDF, Excel, PowerPoint and CSV format. Not much information is available online whether the solution supports Versioning.
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Decision Services
Tableau ServerTableau Server provides financial management functionalities. The solution enables users to predict a company's future financial trends and scenarios based on real-time data analysis. Tableau Server provides visual fraud analysis thereby enabling users to track suspicious behavior. The solution also provides consulting services to enable users in business related decision making. Regulatory compliance functionality is not supported by Tableau Server.
SAP BusinessObjectsSAP BusinessObjects helps users to develop financial strategies. The solution enables users to predict a company's future financial trends and scenarios based on real-time data. The solution does not support regulatory compliance functionality. It provides real-time monitoring of data, availability, and performance. It also enables users to closely monitor current data and send automatic alerts. The solution combined with SAP HANA and SAP Governance, Risk, and Compliance (SAP GRC) solutions give users an enhanced fraud
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Decision Services Financial
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Tableau Server Good Yes No Yes Yes Yes
SAP BusinessObjects Good Yes No Yes Yes Yes
Qlikview Excellent Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
IBM Cognos BI Excellent Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Oracle BI Excellent Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Sisense BI Excellent Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Dundas BI Excellent Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Microsoft Power BI Excellent Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
MicroStrategy Excellent Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Domo Excellent Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Birst BI Good Yes No Yes Yes Yes
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Decision Services analysis and the real-time threat or fraud alerts. The solution's consulting services include Requirements Analysis, Solution Architecting & Data Mart, Data Warehouse etc.
QlikviewQlikView for Financial Management apps provides an integrated and automated financial reporting system. The solution lets users generate balance sheet reports, investigate data, spot anomalies and view most up-to-date single version of truth. The solution provides QlikView Governance Dashboard, a free QlikView app that enables users to ensure compliance with regulatory acts, policies and standards. The solution provides performance dashboards that help users to monitor CPU, RAM, Disk, Process in addition to User, Document, Reload stats extracted from the QlikView Logs. The solution enables fraud or threat detection through its discovery and data analysis technology. The solutions also help users to predict and detect fraud sooner thereby, curtailing its negative impact.
IBM Cognos BIIBM Cognos BI provides comprehensive financial performance and strategy management. The solution deploys an analytics driven approach to measuring revenue growth, operating margins, asset efficiency and risk exposure of an organization. The solution ensures regulatory compliance by letting users archive report specifications and saved report outputs to a repository or to the file system using Cognos Content Archival. The solution supports real-time system monitoring. The solution provides metrics for checking the performance of the system, servers, dispatchers, or services, and even lets users define threshold limits and configure alerts when an issue occurs. The solution integrates seamlessly with IBM fraud detection products like Anti-Fraud, Waste & Abuse, CFO Performance Insight, and Next-Best Action thereby, allowing users to predict and discover any destructive threats. The solution gets Consulting Services through external agencies.
Oracle BIOracle BI's Financial Management Analytics helps users to define, manage and access key business metrics and KPIs in one place. Oracle's Hyperion solution can be integrated with Oracle BI to provide complete visibility into a Company's financials. The solution supports regulatory reporting by allowing users to create business reports or documents such as regulatory filings, government forms, etc. using Oracle BI Publisher. The solution also enables users to monitor status, availability, performance, and health of the system through Enterprise Manager Cloud Control. Oracle BI uses advanced analytics for fraud detection and allows users to tracks losses, recoveries, and settlements throughout the entire fraud lifecycle.
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Decision Services Sisense BISisense is powerful solution enabling compliance with regulations using a data driven approach. The solution enables tracking logins, dashboard and widget usage, data imports along with the user and associated timestamp. In addition, the solution helps monitor threats and support consulting requirements of the client by providing complex data analysis.
Dundas BIDundas BI is a comprehensive decision support solution enabling users to conduct thorough financial management. The solution assists users to monitor and manage regulatory compliance. The solution also facilitates in tracking fraud.
Microsoft Power BIMicrosoft Power BI enables reviewing and analyzing all financial data such as account details or summary statements in a single view. The solution helps users to drill-down data and to receive real-time updates for informed decision making. The solution features adequate capabilities for regulatory compliance through a unique data trustee and data residency model in Germany. The solution helps address regulatory requirements of the European Union (EU), and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA). The solution enables users to closely monitor reports usage and performance statistics via admin portal. The solution lets users monitor potential risks and detect frauds by using visual data analysis. The solution provides predictive analytical capabilities that help users identify patterns/trends in the unstructured data. The solution also offers consulting services to get insights from the datasets in a structured manner.
MicroStrategyMicroStrategy Enterprise Analytics & Mobility enables financial management by delivering enterprise-wide intelligence on costs, revenues, and overall business profitability. The solution provides analytical reporting across huge volumes of data and systems thereby, strengthening budgeting, planning, and forecasting activities. The solution facilitates regulatory reporting, vigorous compliance and risk analysis. The solution integrates data from disparate sources to create comprehensive dashboards that provide real-time visibility into compliance issues or concern areas and ensure regulatory compliance. The solution allows administrators to monitor usage patterns, system resources, uptime, and alerts across the system. The solution helps to analyze key usage and performance indicators using graphs and charts and defining threshold limits. Moreover, the system triggers automatic alerts when threshold usage or performance limits are met or exceeded. The solution also provides fraud detection through advanced analytics that enables users to detect any anomalies in data or usage patterns. The solution also offers Consulting Services for business related queries.35
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Decision Services DomoDomo's Centerview helps users connect with the financial data, prepare reports and custom dashboards and take action on the source of the data. Domo's Centerview allows admin users to monitor usage of data and content by creating row-level security policies. The solution enables users to provide consulting services by providing a trends, forecasts and relevant insights based on selected data. Domo's Centerview does not support threat/fraud detection.
Birst BIBirst BI helps automates financial reporting by helping evaluate capital efficiency, investments and project profitability. The solution does not provide features to monitor regulatory compliance specifically. The solution provides adaptive user experience. The solution also allows to administer users to monitor access and utilization but does not allow to select feature access. Birst BI has partnered with Virtual Consulting to provide business intelligence related consulting services. The solution does not provide a specific module for fraud or threat detection.
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Integrations
Tableau ServerTableau Server supports integrations with ERP, ETL, CRM, MS Office. The solution does not support portal integration and big data connectors.
SAP BusinessObjectsSAP BusinessObjects provides integration with ERP. The solution offers a robust suite of vertical-specific products that are tightly integrated with SAP's ERP applications. The solution is integrable to services like ETL, Portal, CRM and MS office to fulfill user's requirements.
QlikviewQlikView has partnered with FirstBIT that integrates QlikView to any ERP solution. The solution can be integrated with ETL tools through several connectors.QlikView can be 37
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BusinessObjects Excellent Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Qlikview Good Yes - Partial Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
IBM Cognos BI Excellent Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Oracle BI Good Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes
Sisense BI Excellent Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes
Dundas BI Excellent Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Microsoft Power
BI Excellent Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
MicroStrategy Adequate Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes
Domo Excellent Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Birst BI Excellent Yes - Partial Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
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Integrationsintegrated to CRM through Microsoft Dynamics Connector. QlikView can be integrated with various MS office tools like PowerPoint, Excel.
IBM Cognos BIIBM Cognos BI supports integration with major ERP systems such as SAP and Oracle. The solution can integrate with services like ETL, Portal, CRM and MS office to fulfill user's requirements.
Oracle BIOracle BI supports integration with ERP. Oracle's ERP Analytics, part of Oracle Business Intelligence Applications family helps users improve cash flow, control expenses, manage headcount and employee performance, streamline spend and supply chain operations, and track the financial performance. The solution is compatible with different ETL and CRM tools. The solution can be integrated with MS Excel and Powerpoint through different add-ins.
Sisense BISisense BI can be integrated with important software tools, ERP, CRM, financial information, inventories, asset and supply chain management technology, materials resource management, POS data.
Dundas BIDundas BI provides integration with ERP, ETL, CRM, MS-Office and Big Data.
Microsoft Power BIMicrosoft Power BI supports integration with ERP software like Microsoft Dynamics NAV. The solution support integration of ETL tools for different purposes. Microsoft offers a specific add-on Microsoft Dynamics for CRM integration. As both the solution and Office applications are Microsoft Product, the integration very user-friendly. There are a large number of big data connectors through which Microsoft Power BI can be integrated with them.
MicroStrategyMicroStrategy Enterprise Analytics & Mobility supports integration with SAP, Oracle ERP systems and CRM tools. The solution can also integrate with MS Office and Big data connectors.
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IntegrationsDomoDomo's Centerview integrates with several ERP packages such as Netsuite, SAP, Microsoft Dynamics GP to provide relevant metrics enabling better-informed decisions. The solution can be integrated with ETL tools and CRM tools.
Birst BIBirst BI provides ERP integration in conjunction with Intellitek Systems. Birst BI itself is an ETL tool, which allows data analysis and reporting. The solution also offers integration with different CRM tools. The solution offers compatibility with Excel for data representation.
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Big Data Integration
Tableau ServerTableau Server connects directly to multiple Hadoop distributions enabling the business users to quickly and easily gain insight within their Hadoop deployment. Tableau’s native Hadoop connections include Cloudera, Hortonworks, IBM InfoSphere, BigInsights, MapR and Pivotal. Tableau Server is also compatible with Hive, Hbase, Cassandra through CData ODBC driver. There is a new feature which enables users to connect Tableau server via a beta direct connector - Amazon Web Services Elastic MapReduce (EMR).
SAP BusinessObjectsSAP BusinessObjects can be integrated seamlessly with Apache Hadoop software and Apache Hive project. The solution is also integrable with databases like Hbase and Cassandra and is compatible with MapReduce Programming model through Amazon Elastic software.
Big Data Integration Hadoop Hive Hbase Cassandra MapReduce
Tableau Server Excellent Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
SAP BusinessObjects Excellent Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Qlikview Good Yes Yes Yes Yes No
IBM Cognos BI Excellent Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Oracle BI Excellent Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Sisense BI Good Yes Yes No Yes No
Dundas BI Excellent Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Microsoft Power BI Excellent Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
MicroStrategy Excellent Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Domo Adequate Yes No No No No
Birst BI Good Yes Yes No Yes Yes
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Big Data IntegrationSisense BISisense BI's ElastiCube provides native connectivity to Hadoop and Hive. The solution is compatible with Cassandra in Azure deployment option.
Dundas BIDundas BI provides Big Data integration using Hadoop, Hive, Hbase, Cassandra and MapReduce.
Microsoft Power BIMicrosoft Power BI supports integration with Hadoop, Hive, Hbase and Cassandra through a number of drivers like ODBC.
MicroStrategyMicroStrategy Enterprise Analytics & Mobility can be connected to all the major big data software and programming models such as Haddop, Hive, Hbase, Cassandra and MapReduce without any limitations.
DomoDomo integrates with several open source platforms and applications allowing users to understand and interpret data using different charts and data visualization options. Connectors are provided through Domo's App Store.
Birst BIBirst BI provides integration with Hadoop, Hive, Cassandra, MapReduce for distributed storage and processing of large data sets. The solution automatically refines data into a pre-defined format.
The Final Verdict
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