Current BI landscape

Over the last 20 years, several vendors have built products to satisfy BI needs for organizations and this space is pretty crowded with big vendors and niche players that include Tableau desktop, Oracle OBIEE, SAP Business Objects, IBM Cognos, Qlick, and DOMO. Let's review the key features provided by the BI vendors.

Key features provided by BI tools

Most of the features offered by BI vendors fit into one of these categories:

  • Interactive reports: It helps users to analyze data and support decision-making using slice-and-dice, drill down, trends, averages, percentile, and support ad hoc queries with ability to export data/charts.
  • Executive dashboards: It presents data to business leaders in easy-to-understand Key Performance Indicators ...

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