Business Intelligence tools

Because Neo4j as a graph database management system provides many advantages when interacting with inherently networked and interconnected data structures, many traditional data analysis tools can benefit greatly from leveraging its query power. There is, most notably, an entire category of tools out there that are a prime candidate for doing so: the so-called Business Intelligence tools. Tools in this space include (but are certainly not limited to):

  • IBM Cognos
  • SAP Business Objects
  • Pentaho
  • Jaspersoft
  • Qlikview

We will zoom into one of these tools in the following paragraphs, but would first like to clarify the mechanism through which these tools can interface with Neo4j. Of course, they could integrate by calling the raw ...

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