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Business Intelligence (BI): Which solution is best?

Peerspot users review the highest rated solutions in the business intelligence market

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Modern analytics and business intelligence (BI) platforms are a prerequisite for enterprises navigating digital markets, which are otherwise challenging to comprehend and exploit. For many, BI solutions have become a necessary response to the pandemic era, particularly in consumer-facing industries. However, choosing a BI platform can be difficult without the right insight into the options available.

Over 540,000 professionals have used Peerspot research to inform their purchasing decisions. Its latest paper looks at the highest rated BI vendors, profiling each and examining what they can offer enterprise.

Here’s a breakdown of the key players currently active in the market:

IBM Cognos

Average Rating: 8.2

Top Comparison: Tableau

Overview: Caters to all levels in an organisation with products designed for individuals, workgroups, departments, mid-size companies, and big enterprises.

Microsoft BI

Average Rating: 8.1

Top Comparison: Tableau

Overview: A solution that turns data into insightful and useful business information that is relevant to all levels of the business.

MicroStrategy

Average Rating: 7.9 

Top Comparison: Microsoft BI

Overview: A leading worldwide provider of enterprise software platforms whose mission is to provide enterprise analytics, mobility, and security platforms that are flexible, powerful, scalable, and user-friendly.

Oracle Analytics Cloud

Average Rating: 7.1

Top Comparison: Oracle OBIEE

Overview:  A tool whose platform enables an organisation to ask any question of any data on any device and across any environment.

Oracle OBIEE

Average Rating: 7.8

Top Comparison: Microsoft BI

Overview: Allows clients to discover new awareness and improve the speed of completing important business decisions by providing robust visual tools and intuitive realisation coupled with the latest unmatched enterprise analytics available.

Salesforce Einstein Analytics

Average Rating: 8.3

Top Comparison: Tableau

Overview: A customer and business analytics platform that’s optimised for mobile use and brings flexible customer analytics to everyone in a company.

SAP Analytics Cloud

Average Rating: 8.1

Top Comparison: Tableau

Overview: An all-in-one Software-as-a-Service BI tool that provides the key functionalities of an analytics tool to SAP business users.

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform

Average Rating: 7.8

Top Comparison: Microsoft BI

Overview: Provides a flexible, scalable platform that leverages up-to-date technologies and a comprehensive range of data sources to transform data into valuable insights, available anytime, anywhere.

Tableau

Average Rating: 8.1

Top Comparison: Microsoft BI

Overview: Provides the breadth and depth of capabilities to serve the needs of even the largest global enterprises in a seamless, integrated experience.

TIBCO Spotfire

Average Rating: 8.4

Top Comparison: Microsoft BI

Overview: Gives businesses the tools to quickly and easily examine, organise, analyse, and comprehend data to see connections, patterns, and opportunities.

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