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The 5 Best Data Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms and Tools

Mithun Kumar

Data Analytics and Business Intelligence platforms and tools

An overview of the 5 best Data Analytics and Business Intelligence platforms and tools

In my last article I stated why world needs machine learning engineers. The reason is several data analytics and business intelligence services and solutions startups are creating every year and they need a lot of experts in machine learning and big data analytics. In this article I am going to introduce you world 5 best data analytics and business intelligence platforms and tools.

I found best 5 data analytics and business intelligence platforms and tools. You can check this list here-

1.    Microsoft Power BI

2.    Oracle Analytics Cloud

3.    IBM Cognos Analytics

4.    ThoughtSpot

5.    Qlik


Here is an overview of this top and most popular data analytics and business intelligence platforms and tools that you can try for your real world problem solution and grow your business.


Microsoft Power BI

Power BI is a suite of business analytics tools that creates amazing data experiences. It is an end-to-end analytics solution that easily connects to, model and visualizes your data making memorable reports and share insight. You can get fast, AI-powered answers for your questions asking with casual languages. Power BI Bridges the gap between data and decision making. The objective of Power BI is to provide interactive visualization and business intelligence capabilities with very simple interface so that the end users can create their own reports and dashboards easily. The cloud-based business intelligence (BI) service is known as “Power BI Services” and desktop based interface is called “Power BI Desktop”.

Data Analytics and Business Intelligence platforms and tools
Photo source: Microsoft


The key components of Power BI ecosystem includes-

1.    Power BI Desktop

2.    Power BI Service

3.    Power BI Mobile Apps

4.    Power BI Gateway

5.    Power BI Embedded

6.    Power BI Report Server

7.    Power BI Premium

8.    Power BI Visuals Marketplace


Oracle Analytics Cloud

Oracle is the king of database working area. Oracle Analytics Cloud is a scalable and secure public cloud service that accepts queries in more than 28 languages. It provides a full set of capabilities to explore and perform collaborative analytics for you, your work group and your organization. In recent years this platform has reduced the cost for recruiting expensive human database administrator with its several machine learning algorithms and natural language processing technologies. Here you can find the features of Oracle Analytics Cloud below. 

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Features of Oracle Analytics Cloud. Source: Oracle Analytics Cloud

With Oracle Analytics Cloud you also get

·       flexible service management capabilities

·       including fast setup

·       easy scaling and patching

·       and automated lifecycle management

 

You can explore and collaborate with real-time data taking data from any source with Oracle Cloud Analytics. You can find its outstanding features in this figure.


IBM Cognos Analytics

IBM Cognos Analytics offers you all comprehensive business solution for faster, more reliable data preparation and reporting. You can try cognos analytics free of cost for 30 days. Cognos AI system offer users asking their queries and receiving answers in natural language. It is not focus only giving chart and reports but explains then to the users what actually it means and points you towards the insights. Its high performance AI system can automatically clean up data, remove duplicate information, or highlight areas where something is missing. With the new cognos mobile app you can get insights in real-time, straight to your phone. Here you can find the features of IBM Cognos Analytics below-

·       Accelerate data prep with AI

·       Automate data exploration

·       Visualize and report on data

·       Scale and integrate

·       Protect your data

·       Modernize and maximize your investment

 

Data Analytics and Business Intelligence platforms and tools
IBM Cognos Data Anlytics

ThoughtSpot

ThoughtSpot is another data analytics suite that also offers you asking queries in natural language. Its UI feature will be familiar to general people. 

Data Analytics and Business Intelligence platforms and tools
ThoughtSpot 

Its AI-powered assistant uses machine learning algorithm to understand what a user thing and give suggestion pointing out insights, or help users suggesting alternative methods. ThoughtSpot offer you free trial for 30 days.

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ThoughtSpot Experience

Qlik

Qlik is another cloud-based data analytics platform that provides business intelligence and data integration solutions. 

Data Analytics and Business Intelligence platforms and tools
Qlik Services

Qlik has two main data analytics products-

1)    Qlik Sense (current cloud-based software)- It is for analyzing static data

2)    QlikView (legacy on-premise product)- It is for concatenation for different data sources

 

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Qlik Industrial Solutions


 Author


Mithun Kumar
Remote Sensing Specialist & GIS Developer
Scientific Officer & Head, Aeronautics & Space Applications division
and
Founder & President, Space and Environment Research Center (SERC), Bangladesh.

Founder, Analytic
Founder & Director, Project Origin


 

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