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Free Cloud Business Intelligence Solutions................................................................................................................................... 4

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IBM Watson Analytics.......................................................................................................................................................... 4

Try Sisense Free........................................................................................................................................................................ 4

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Microsoft Power BI.............................................................................................................................................................. 6

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Zoho Reports...................................................................................................................................................................... 8

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Tableau Public..................................................................................................................................................................... 9

Free Proprietary Business Intelligence Solutions........................................................................................................................ 10

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Power BI Desktop.............................................................................................................................................................. 10

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EspressReport Lite............................................................................................................................................................ 11

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QlikView Personal Edition.................................................................................................................................................. 12

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Style Scope Free Edition................................................................................................................................................... 13

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Qlik Sense Desktop........................................................................................................................................................... 14

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icCube............................................................................................................................................................................... 15

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Arcadia Data Instant......................................................................................................................................................... 15

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Prognoz Personal Edition................................................................................................................................................... 16

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Visualize Free.................................................................................................................................................................... 17

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Dataiku Data Science Studio (DSS) Community Edition................................................................................................ 18

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Actian VectorH Express.................................................................................................................................................. 19

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Actian Vector Express.................................................................................................................................................... 19

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Birst Express for NetSuite.............................................................................................................................................. 19

Free Open Source Business Intelligence Solutions..................................................................................................................... 21

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Pentaho Community Edition............................................................................................................................................. 21

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OpenText Actuate Information Hub, Free Edition.............................................................................................................. 22

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ReportServer..................................................................................................................................................................... 23

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JasperReports Business Intelligence................................................................................................................................. 24

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Jedox Base........................................................................................................................................................................ 25

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SpagoBI............................................................................................................................................................................ 26

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ART A Reporting Tool...................................................................................................................................................... 27

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Widestage......................................................................................................................................................................... 28

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Pentaho Reporting............................................................................................................................................................ 29

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JMagallanes................................................................................................................................................................... 30

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OpenReports.................................................................................................................................................................. 31

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Seal Report.................................................................................................................................................................... 31

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OpenI............................................................................................................................................................................. 33

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NextReports................................................................................................................................................................... 34

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Rapidminer.................................................................................................................................................................... 35

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Mondrian....................................................................................................................................................................... 36

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KNIME............................................................................................................................................................................ 36

Open Source Commercial Business Intelligence Solution........................................................................................................... 38

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Pentaho............................................................................................................................................................................. 38

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Jaspersoft.......................................................................................................................................................................... 38

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Palo................................................................................................................................................................................... 38

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Actuate Corporation.......................................................................................................................................................... 39
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TACTIC.............................................................................................................................................................................. 39

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Helical Insight................................................................................................................................................................... 39

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 devices is available. Watson
Analytics can help business source the data, cleanse and refine it, discover insights, predict outcomes, visualize results, create reports or
dashboards, and collaborate with others. Watson Analytics offers a full range of self-service analytics, including access to easy-to-use data
refinement and data warehousing services .Watson Analytics Free Edition, let to upload, storage and work with flat files with no more than
100,000 rows, 50 columns and total data storage of no more than 500 MB.
Try Sisense Free
Sisense lets you analyze complex data with complete agility. From easy data preparation to beautiful dashboards and interactive analytics,
Sisense gives your business a simple way to manage, analyze and visualize all your data.
Sisense Free

Watson Analytics

Watson Analytics

2. Microsoft Power BI
Power BI, is a cloud based business analytics service, designed for non technical business users. Customers can keep a pulse on their
business via live operational dashboards with just any browser or a Power BI mobile app. They can deeply explore their business data, through
interactive visual reports, and enrich it with additional data sources. Power BI let to connect to your data in minutes, with built in connectors and

pre built dashboards and reports from a wide variety of sources. Power BI Designer is a dedicated report authoring tool for the Power BI
Preview service. The Data capacity limits for free version is 1 GB, and support for streaming data, is 10K rows/hour.
Power BI

Microsoft Power BI

3. Zoho Reports
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Zoho Reports is an Online reporting and business intelligence which provide unlimited reporting and dashboards. Zoho Reports let to visually
analyze your business data, create insightful reports and dashboards to make informed business decisions.
Zoho Reports

4. Tableau Public

Tableau 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

Free Proprietary Business Intelligence Solutions

1. Power BI Desktop
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The Power BI Desktop is an end-to-end solution for building analytics. The Desktop has all the capabilities to quickly connect, shape, visualize,
and share data insights through Power BI. Power BI makes publishing and sharing your beautiful interactive reports easy.
Power BI Desktop

2. EspressReport Lite
EspressReport Lite is a Java report development tool kit from Quadbase. It comes with a reporting engine and a visual report builder to build
embedded reporting functionality into web based or standalone applications. With a robust Java API, and visual design, query, and scheduling
tools, EspressReport offers a fully embedded reporting component that can be integrated seamlessly in application, applet, servlet, and JSP
code. EspressReport Lite provides the same capabilities as premium, EspressReport except that sub-reports, drill-down, embedded charts and
scheduling are not supported.
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EspressReport Lite

EspressReport Lite

3. QlikView Personal Edition

The QlikView Business Discovery platform delivers true self service BI that empowers business users by driving innovative decision making.
QlikView is used for consolidating relevant data from multiple sources into a single application, exploring the associations in data, visualizing
data, and enabling social decision making through secure, real-time collaboration.
QlikView Personal Edition is a free software.
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QlikView Personal Edition

QlikView Personal Edition

4. Style Scope Free Edition

Style Scope Free Edition from InetSoft Technology Corporation is a small footprint server that delivers web based interactive flash dashboards
and visualizations that can be shared within an organization. It provides support for multi source data mashups and full admin and permission
controls. Visualize Free is a visual analysis application that allows users to explore their own data visually and interactively. It requires no
software installation. Style Chart is a charting engine and JavaScript API for Web developers to embed charts and graphs in Web pages via
AJAX.
InetSoft

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InetSoft Technology Corporation

5. Qlik Sense Desktop

Qlik 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 and Multi-data source integration.
Qlik Sense Desktop

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Qlik Sense Desktop

6. icCube
icCube is a business intelligence tool to analyze and get insights from a wide range of types of data possibly spread out across 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 is leveraging the multi dimensional concepts such as drilldown,
slice, dice to create interactive web dashboards accessible from PC and Table.

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icCube community edition is a free software.

icCube

7. Arcadia Data Instant

Arcadia Data unifies visual analysis, data discovery and business intelligence native in Hadoop and provides access data inside and outside
Hadoop right from web browser, and no driver installation required. Lets browse data sources, structure and content, with full granularity and
transparency. It lets to create semantic relationships across multiple sources, set hierarchies and logical datasets, for blending visualizations
across sources and provides an easy-to-use, familiar web-based self-service drag-n-drop authoring, to create full range of charts and graphs.
Arcadia Data assemble dashboard of visual apps that show your work, with interactive drilldown to raw data, so you can zoom and pivot with
transparent precision to any values in your data sets.
Arcadia Data Instant

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8. Prognoz Personal Edition

Prognoz Platform is a modern BI platform for creating and developing desktop, web and mobile applications combining modern technologies of
data storage, visualizations, OLAP, forming reports, modelling and forecasting of business processes. Personal version contains all tools of
Prognoz Platform 8, a repository with demo examples and is not time restricted. Personal version cannot be used with commercial DBMS and
is used to work with a full set of functionalities only in a local database.
Prognoz Personal Edition

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9. Visualize Free
Visualize Free provides an easy way to evaluate some of the capabilities of InetSofts commercial visual analysis product, Style Scope.
Visualize Free is a free Web-based on demand analytics solution to visually explore and present data that standard office charting software
cannot handle.
Visualize Free

10.Dataiku Data Science Studio (DSS) Community Edition

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Dataiku Data Science Studio (DSS) is a software platform that aggregates all the steps and big data tools necessary to get from raw data to
production ready application. DSS can make the models and predicted values accessible to other business applications through a REST
API.DSS can also publish the models and predicted values to a variety of other destinations such as Elastic Search, FTP servers, internal
Datawarehouses.
Data Science Studio (DSS) Community Edition

Data Science Studio (DSS)

11.Actian VectorH Express

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Actian VectorH Express provides Hadoop analytics using existing SQL tools and resources and transform Hadoop into a full function analytics
platform for free. Load, transform and analyze up to 500GB of Hadoop data and analyze Hadoop data 30x faster without Map Reduce coding
and provide business users industrialized SQL in Hadoop access
Actian VectorH Express

12.Actian Vector Express

Actian Vector Express provides high performance BI analytics. Load, transform, and analyze up to 250GB of ANY data, build re-usable
analytical workflows visually without coding and accelerate analytics processing over 10x faster.
Actian Vector Express

13.Birst Express for NetSuite

Birst Express for NetSuite, is a free analytics module that NetSuite administrators can use to achieve greater operational efficiency across their
organization. Birst Express for NetSuite is part of the Birst analytics family, which includes Birst Discovery and Birst Enterprise editions. Birst
Express provides powerful data visualization, reporting and analytics to organizations of all sizes.
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Birst Express

Free Open Source Business Intelligence Solutions

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1. Pentaho Community Edition

Pentaho offers, a suite of open source Business Intelligence (BI) products which provide data integration, OLAP services, reporting,
dashboarding, data mining and ETL capabilities. Pentaho Community Edition suite includes ETL, OLAP analysis, metadata, data mining, reporting,
dashboards and a platform 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. The Report Designer is a graphical
tool that generates reports from data streamed through the Data Integration engine without the need for any intermediate staging tables.
Pentaho Community Edition

Pentaho Community Edition

2. OpenText Actuate Information Hub, Free Edition

BIRT is an open source Eclipse based reporting system from Eclipse Foundation which integrates with Java/Java EE application to produce
compelling reports. BIRT Business Intelligence platform includes BIRT Designer, BIRT Designer Pro, BIRT iHub F-Type and BIRT Analytics.
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BIRT provides core reporting features such as report layout, data access and scripting. The stated goals are to address the reporting needs
within a typical application, which ranges from operational or enterprise reporting to multi dimensional online analytical processing (OLAP).
BIRT has two main components, which are, a visual report designer within the Eclipse IDE for creating BIRT Reports, and a runtime component
for generating reports that can be deployed to any Java environment. The BIRT project also includes a charting engine that is both fully
integrated into the report designer and can be used standalone to integrate charts into an application.
BIRT Business Intelligence

Eclipse BIRT Project

3. ReportServer
ReportServer is an open source software for business intelligence and reporting platform released in aGPL license. Major features include
Graphic Reports, Dynamic Lists, Interactive Dashboards, Report Variants, Scheduling and Search and UI, TeamSpaces, Hierarchical
Structures, Report Management, Data Sources and User Management.
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ReportServer integrates with JasperReports, Eclipse Birt and SAP Crystal Reports. ReportServer is a web application based on Java Servlet
technologies which can be used with any relational database for which a JDBC driver is available.
ReportServer

4. JasperReports Business Intelligence

Jaspersoft 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 provides reporting and analytics that can be
embedded into a web or mobile application as well as operate as a central information hub for the enterprise by delivering mission critical
information on a real time or scheduled basis to the browser, mobile device, printer, or email inbox in a variety of file formats.

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The heart of the Jaspersoft BI Suite is JasperReports Server. JasperReports Server provides the ability to create new reports using an intuitive
web-based drag and drop Ad Hoc reporting interface, efficiently and securely manage many reports, interact with reports, including entering
parameters and drilling on data. For advanced BI users, Jaspersoft offers Jaspersoft OLAP, which runs as an add-on feature to JasperReports
Server to provide OLAP based data analysis capabilities.
JasperReports Business Intelligence

JasperReportsServer

5. Jedox Base
The Jedox Base Business Intelligence solution provides OLAP Server,Free Excel client (Jedox Excel Add-in), No limit on database 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 and calculation capability. Jedox OLAP Server also supports real time modelling. Jedox OLAP offers a
variety of ways to extend the application via API and standard serial interfaces.
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Jedox Base

Jedox base Business Intelligence solution

6. SpagoBI
SpagoBI is an open source business intelligence suite, founded and supported by the Engineering Group. It offers a large range of analytical
functions, a highly functional semantic layer and a set of advanced data visualization features including geospatial analytics. SpagoBI Server is
the main module of the suite, which offers the core and analytical functionalities. It provides two conceptual models known as analytical model
and behavioural model. Also provided are administration tools and cross platform services. The analytical model is the core of SpagoBI Server
and covers a range of 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

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& monitoring, subscription management and graphical interfaces. The cross platform services include 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

SpagoBI

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. It supports tabular, crosstab, charts, scheduling, email alerts,
drill down, among other features. Results are exportable to spreadsheet/pdf, can be reversed to a database table (cached), can be embedded
in a portal-like page or retrieved via a smartphone.
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ART stands for A Reporting Tool

8. Widestage
Widestage is a Lightweight Open Source Business Intelligence and reporting tool for mongodb, postgresql, Mysql, & MS sql. Widestage
supports Mongodb, Postgresql, Mysql and MS sql to feed your reports, and you can configure as much data sources as you need. Widestage
let you to create different semantic layers to allow your users create their own reports without need to know your data structure.
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9. Pentaho Reporting
Pentaho Reporting are Open Source reporting tools for the creation of relational and analytical reports from a variety of data-sources. Report
Designer is a desktop reporting tool that provides a visual design environment. Reporting Engine is an embeddable JAVA reporting library that
is used by the report designer to generate reports. Reporting Software Developers Kit (SDK) is a packaging of the Classic Engine.
Pentaho Reporting

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Pentaho Reporting

10.JMagallanes
The open source project JMagallanes is an end user application for OLAP and Dynamic Reports written in Java/J2EE. It combines static
reports (based on JasperReports), a Swing pivot table for OLAP analysis, and charts (based on JFreeChart).
JMagallanes

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JMagallanes

11.OpenReports
OpenReports 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.
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12.Seal Report
Seal Report is an Open Source for the Microsoft .Net Framework entirely written in C#. The main features include Dynamic 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 build dynamically the SQL used to query the database. Native Pivot Tables let
to simply drag and drop elements directly in a pivot table (Cross Tab) and display them in report. HTML 5 Charts and Microsoft Charts are
available to define and display Chart Series in two mouse clicks. HTML Rendering using Razor engine make use of the power of HTML5 in the
report result such as JQuery Tabs, Tables sorting and filtering. Web Report Server publish the reports on the web.
Seal Report

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13.OpenI
OpenI provides a web-driven interface to build and publish interactive reports from OLAP data sources.OpenI provides a clean, intuitive
interface to connect to different types of data sources, and to publish web-based interactive reports. OpenI is a J2EE web application, with the
default implementation running on top of tomcat and uses data-source specific report definition languages (RDLs) to define and track the
reports created on the platform
OpenI

OpenI

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14.NextReports
NextReports provides NextReports Designer, NextReports Engine and NextReports Server. NextReports Designer is an AdHoc Query and
Reporting software that promotes simple, fast and powerful report creation, which runs on any operating system that supports Java 1.7 .
NextReports Engine is a lightweight java reporting engine that could be embedded in any application or used on their own. NextReports Server
is a reporting server that helps automating production and delivery of business reports.
NextReports

NextReports

15.Rapidminer
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Rapidminer is the leader in open source provider for data mining and business analytics. The community edition is open source which can be
downloaded from website. RapidMiner Server lets to run processes on enterprise hardware from anywhere, without restrictions.
Rapidminer

RapidMiner

16.Mondrian

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Mondrian is an Open Source Business Analytics engine written in Java that enables business users access to their data for interactive
analysis. With Mondrian as Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) engine, business users can enable multidimensional queries against data,
using the MDX query language.
Mondrian

17.KNIME

KNIME, the Konstanz Information Miner is an open source data analytics, reporting and integration platform. KNIME integrates various
components for machine learning and data mining through its modular data pipelining concept. A graphical user interface allows assembly of
nodes for data pre processing, for Extraction, Transformation, Loading, for modelling and data analysis and visualization. There are different
modules for data integration such as file I/O, database nodes 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 as
data sets to create report templates that can be exported to different document formats.
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Open Source Commercial Business Intelligence Solution

1. Pentaho
Pentaho offers a suite of open source Business Intelligence products called Pentaho Business Analytics providing data integration, 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 extra features not found in
the community edition. The enterprise edition is obtained through an annual subscription and includes extra support services. Pentahos core
offering is frequently enhanced by add-on products, usually in the form of plugins, from the company itself and also the broader community of
users and enthusiasts. Mondrian is an open source OLAP server, written in Java. It supports the MDX (multidimensional expressions) query
language and the XML. It reads from SQL and other data sources and aggregates data in a memory cache.
Pentaho

2. Jaspersoft

Jaspersoft 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 licensing around the JasperReports, JasperReports Server,
Jaspersoft Studio, iReport, and Jaspersoft ETL products. Jaspersofts main related product is JasperReports Server, a Java web application
that provides advanced report server capabilities such as report scheduling, permissions, ad hoc reporting, dashboards, and multi-tenancy. It is
offered in a community open source edition as well as under several commercial editions with broad support for various databases and data
sources, including NoSQL and other big data datasources.
Jaspersoft

3. Palo

Palo is a memory resident multidimensional (online analytical processing (OLAP) or multidimensional online analytical processing (MOLAP))
database server and typically used as a business intelligence tool for controlling and budgeting purposes with spreadsheet software acting as
the user interface. Beyond the multidimensional data concept, Palo enables 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

4. Actuate Corporation
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Actuate Corporation is creation of the open source Eclipse BIRT business data reporting project launched by the Eclipse Foundation in 2004.
Actuates primary commercial offerings include the BIRT Designers, and the BIRT iHub development and deployment platform for developers.
Actuate

5. TACTIC

TACTIC is a dynamic, open-source, web-based platform that allows users to manage the development and delivery of digital assets through the
entire content creation process. Designed for busy work environments with high volumes of content traffic, TACTIC streamlines workflow by
applying business logic to disparate data and file system environments and to dynamically visualize every aspect through web based delivery.
The platform seamlessly combines elements of DAM, PAM, CMS and ECM technologies, offering users a set of tools to create a wide range of
customized enterprise workflow solutions.
TACTIC

6. Helical Insight

Helical Insight, of course, provides features expected of a BI tool such as email scheduling, visualization, exporting, multi-tenancy, user role
management, etc.
Helical Insight

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