A Comparative Study: Business Intelligence Tools

Abstract

Business Intelligence is a collection of technologies, processes, and architectures used to collect, store, and analyze the data produced by a company, BI helps in making a decision based in fact using historical data rather than gut feeling or assumptions. BI tools are used to make reports and do data analysis, summaries, dashboards, maps, graphs to provide users with detailed business information. Analysis tools affect the development and sustainable growth of a company, as costumer evaluation needs to develop in a competitive market is essential. With population development, processing large quantity of data has become increasingly difficult for companies. After certain period all the companies need a better and efficient way to manage data and improvise the decision making method. This paper compares two of the most used BI open source tools in the market: Jaspersoft and Pentaho. The purpose of the paper is comparative study of the most important BI tools in the market specifying the importance of the corresponding solutions.