Finding software can be overwhelming. Software Advice has helped hundreds of businesses choose the right big data tools to analyze their historical datasets and extract meaningful trends and patterns.
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Domo is a cloud-based business management suite that integrates with multiple data sources, including spreadsheets, databases, social media and any existing cloud-based or on-premise software solution. It is suitable for company sizes... Read more
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Dundas BI, from Dundas Data Visualization, is a browser-based business intelligence and data visualization platform that includes integrated dashboards, reporting tools, and data analytics. It provides end users the ability to create... Read more
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Sisense is an agile business intelligence (BI) solution that provides advanced tools to manage and support business data with analytics, visuals and reporting. The solution allows businesses to analyze big and disparate datasets and... Read more
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ClicData is a business intelligence (BI) dashboard solution designed for use primarily by small and midsized businesses. The tool enables end users to create reports and dashboards. A drag-and-drop interface designed for ease of use... Read more
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Created to combine business intelligence, corporate performance management, and business analytics, BOARD is a full-featured business intelligence system that serves midsize and enterprise-level companies in a variety of different... Read more
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Birst, an Infor Company, is a web-based networked BI and analytics solution that connects insights from various teams and helps in making informed decisions. The tool enables decentralized users to augment the enterprise data model... Read more
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Intellicus is a Business Intelligence and Analytics platform. It offers an end-to-end BI solution, covering the complete spectrum of business intelligence – from Data Extraction and Data Processing to Delivery of Insights. Key features... Read more
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Corporater is a cloud-based OSHA- and ISO-compliant business intelligence (BI) solution that provides midsize and large organizations across various industries with applications to plan for and execute their business outcomes. Features... Read more
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SAP BusinessObjects is a business intelligence solution designed for companies of all sizes. It offers ETL (extract, transform, load), predictive dashboard, Crystal reports, OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) and ad-hoc reporting... Read more
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Yellowfin, a business intelligence platform, is a single integrated solution developed for companies across varying industries and scaling sizes. This system is customizable to suit businesses in accounting, advertising, agriculture,... Read more
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InetSoft Style Intelligence is a business intelligence software platform that allows users to create dashboards, visual analyses and reports via a data mashup engine—a tool that integrates data in real time from multiple sources.... Read more
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Stratum by Silvon is a robust business intelligence solution that was designed to meet the unique needs of business professionals working for manufacturing and distribution companies. Stratum offers a full suite of integrated analytic... Read more
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Exago BI is a 100% web-based, end-to-end business analytics solution that’s designed to be embedded in web-based applications. Embedding Exago BI allows SaaS companies of all sizes to provide their customers with self-service ad... Read more
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TrenData People Analytics is a cloud-based business intelligence (BI) solution designed for midsize businesses across various industries. The solution offers various HR analytics and workforce management features such as compensation... Read more
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TARGIT Decision Suite is a business intelligence and analytics solution that offers visual data discovery tools, self-service business analytics, reporting and dashboards in a single, integrated solution. TARGIT combines the control... Read more
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icCube Data Analysis & Reporting
icCube Data Analysis & Reporting is a cloud-based business intelligence platform that offers real-time data analysis and visualizations through configurable dashboards, charts and widgets. The solution is accessible on tablets, smartphones... Read more
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Cognos Analytics is an upgrade to Cognos Business Intelligence (Cognos BI). By adding cognitive guidance, a web-based interface and new data visualization features, Cognos Analytics provides self-service analytics to large and midsize... Read more
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Halo is an end-to-end supply chain management and business intelligence platform that helps in business planning and forecasting inventory for supply chain management. The system uses data from all sources - big, small, and in-between... Read more
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Tableau is an integrated business intelligence (BI) and analytics solution that helps to analyze key business data and generate meaningful insights. The solution helps businesses to collect data from multiple source points such as... Read more
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Microsoft Power BI is a web-based business analytics and data visualization platform that is suitable for businesses of all sizes. It monitors important organizational data and also from all apps used by organizations. Microsoft Power... Read more
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It's safe to say that “big data" is no longer just a buzzword. Today it's a $200 billion industry addressing one of the most significant challenges facing organizations: analyzing vast amounts of disparate data to find patterns or trends that can potentially improve their business.
With the advent of social media and the internet, businesses from small startups to large enterprises are contending with more data than they know what to do with. Approximately 2.5 quintillion bytes of new data are created every single day, meaning the need for big data tools to do the heavy lifting on this analysis will only continue to grow. According to Gartner, almost half of all businesses are investing in big data now, and a quarter plan to invest in big data soon. (Full content available to Gartner clients.)
That's where we come in. In this Buyer's Guide, we'll explain everything you need to know about the big data landscape so you can choose the right tool that will best suit your needs and budget.
Here's what we'll cover:
What Are Big Data Tools?
Common Big Data Tool Functionality
What Type of Big Data Tool Buyer Are You?
Key Considerations When Purchasing Big Data Tools
Other Big Data Tool Resources
What Are Big Data Tools?
Gartner defines big data as “high-volume, high-velocity and/or high-variety information assets that demand cost-effective, innovative forms of information processing."
Big data tools include any business intelligence (BI) tool that does this all-important processing.
More specifically known as big data analytics tools, these software platforms are designed to parse through large, disparate datasets—be they product data, customer data, employee data etc.—to discover meaningful patterns that connect them and visualize the results in an easily interpretable way for stakeholders to make decisions.
Big data analytics in Tableau
Common Big Data Tool Functionality
Because big data is such a broad term, the functionality of big data tools can vary greatly. Some tools represent robust BI suites that can handle data collection, extraction, cleaning, visualization and more, while others are more stripped down, focusing solely on one aspect of big data analysis.
In general though, here is some of the most common functionality you can expect to find in big data tools:
| Data extraction | Pulls raw data from various integrated sources and reformats it all into a similar schema or format for easier analysis. |
| Data mining | Uses statistics and data modeling to analyze vast amounts of disparate data and identify trends or patterns that connect them. Learn more about data mining here. |
| Data visualization | Visualizes trends in an easy-to-understand graphical form. These visualizations are usually customizable and interactive, allowing users to change various scales and data sources to analyze trends. |
| Predictive analytics | Applies discovered trends from historical data sets to create models predicting what's likely to happen with that data moving forward. |
| Reporting | Allows users to create and distribute a preloaded set of customized reports or customize their own. |
Not sure which functions to prioritize in your search? Check out "5 Core Data Analytics Software Capabilitie