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2 Researching BI tools: Researching BI Tools Select 3 Vendors from the list below (or 2 from below and 1 of your choice that is not on the list.) For each of the 3 you choose, using the Internet, conduct research to understand and prepare a brief report on each, answering the following questions Bl market focuses (what is the product a best fit for?) i.e. Reporting, Data Mining, Big Data Dashboards, etc. What size companies use it? Is there a specific industry focus or type of analysis it is best suited to? Anything else you come up with that you think is relevant. 1) 2) 3) 4) . QlikView Tableau Server Microsoft Power Bl Domo Microstrategy Phocas Software Looker Insight Squared Sisense Dundas BI Business Objects Inetsoft . Board GoodData Oracle BI ZAP Business Intelligence . Easy Insight IBM Cognos Birst . Pentaho SAS Business Intelligence The goals of this exercise are Learn something about BI Market. . Learn how to research and analyze software products on line . Learn how to think about how COTS products might fit future user requirements.

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IBM Cognos

1)
Ibm Cognos is a Business Inteligence tool from IBM.It is mainly popular for reporting.

2)
It is mainly popular for it Report Studio where Reports and Dashboard can be prepared easily without having the total domain knowledge.

It has another part which is analysis studio where Online Analytical processing(OLAP) of data can be done. Like we can prepare multidimensional analysis or we can prepare Cube for analysis.

3)
It is used by Large Companies or Copmanies with a good turnover because it has a licensing price.

It is a IBM Tool so companies who are using IBM Technologies like IBM DB2, IBM TSM etc would prefer to use IBM Cognos as a reporting tool because it has easily integrated with other IBM products and also save licensing costs.

4)
IBM Cognos has a speciality that it can also used for Analysis of Data from Mainframe. IBM Cognos is one of the first ten BI tools in the World.

Oracle BI

1)
It is also a very popular tool for Business Inteligence from oracle. It supports all the analysis angles like reporting, dashboard, database integration. Different type of visual analysis can be easily done by Oracle BI.

2)
Oracle BI is used from small business companies to large or very large business companies.

3)
It has predefined Analytics processes for HR,Finance,Sales, Supply Chain, etc. So companies if want to analysis the data on this deparments,they can easily use this tool for BI.

4)
As Oracle Database is very popular and used by many companies , so using Oracle BI will be more flexible for them. Oracle BI integration with Oracle database is very easy and also lower the licensing costs. Now all the BI tools are integrated with cloud, so from Oracle BI 12C it is totally a cloud based product.

SISENSE

1)

SISENSE is one the popular Business Inteligence tool used in the industry. It is mainly popular for its Analytical features like drag and drop graph, customizing of report with Drill down, filter Sisense BI dashboard. It is also popular for its reporting as well big data solution.

2) SISENCE also have customized analytical process for different industry like health care, Finace, Manufacturing, Retail, Goverment etc.

3) It can be used in any Industry

4) It has automatic sense to analysis the data, so direct knowledge about the data is not required by preparing report.

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