Business Intelligence Tools

Business Intelligence(BI) tools are a type of application software designed to retrieve, analyze and report data. These tools generally read data that have been previously stored in a data warehouse or data mart. There is a broad range of BI tools that range in purpose from data acquisition to data processing. The most common tools used for business intelligence are as follows.

ETL/DW

Informatica

Oracle Warehouse Builder

Ab Initio

Microsoft SSIS

IBM DataStage

ErWin Data Modeler

ER Studio

Kettle

Talend

Control-M

AutoSys

Reporting/Analytics

BiRT

Jasper Reports

Pentaho

OBIEE

BusinessObjects

Cognos

Altio

MicroStrategy

Cystal Reports

MS SSRS

Benchmarking/Integration

Informatica

MicroStrategy

Cognos

Data Stage

Tableau

Kettle

ER Studio

Kettle

BO

Enterprise Management

Cognos

BO

Open source tools

Relational Database Management

Oracle

Sybase

MS SQL Server

MySQL

Customer Relationship Management

Siebel CRM