Business Intelligence Tools - Sisense, Qlik, Birst

This article explores the top Business Intelligence tools like Sisense, Qlik, Birst and their features. It explains how these BI tools can enhance decision making skills and create dashboards and charts. The article also provides recommendations and conclusion on why every company should have at least one business intelligence tool installed to be in the competition with the other companies and to set a grip over the technology.

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Table of Contents
Outline........................................................................................................................................2
Sisense........................................................................................................................................2
Features of Sisense.................................................................................................................2
Qlik.............................................................................................................................................3
Birst............................................................................................................................................3
Features...................................................................................................................................3
The predictions are standardised.........................................................................................3
Diverse connectivity options..............................................................................................4
Quote based pricing............................................................................................................4
Recommendations and Conclusion............................................................................................4
References..................................................................................................................................5

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Outline
Business Intelligence tools are those tools which utilise the methods and the technologies
basically to present the data and analyse it individually. The set of the methodologies used by
the business intelligence is widely diverse in the range and also depends upon the solution.
According to the Forrester Research, business intelligence tools are a set of the
methodologies and that is used to transform the meaningful data into the useful information.
The strategies are implemented on the basis of this raw information. There are several
business intelligence tools which are used by different companies and recently there have
been the introduction of the various tools which are Sisense, Qlik, Birst, Dundas BI, Domo
and a lot more (Wu, Chen and Olson, 2014).
Sisense
Sisense falls under the category of the business analytics having the head office in New York,
Tel Aviv, Arizona and Scottsdale. The business intelligence products includes both the back
end are also powered by the chip in technology which enables the users of the non-technical
field to do the in-depth analysis of the data sets acquired from the multiple sources. Sisense is
basically used to enhance the decision making skills and enables the users to create
dashboards and charts (Troyansky, Gibson and Leichtweis, 2015).
Features of Sisense
 It helps to unify the data and consolidates the important information
 It acts as a central hub for the company to reach to the different set of data easily and
at one go.
 Its best feature is it can be setup in the entire house and can be used without any
difficulty.

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Qlik
Qlik is a manufacturing company of the software which is situated in Radnor, Pennsylvania,
United States. Qlik is the provider of the QlikView and Qlik Sense, the software of the
business Intelligence. It was previously founded in the year, 1993 in Lund Sweden. The Qlik
is a business intelligence tool used to visualise the data and create a dynamic BI ecosystem
which runs according to the software. Unlike the traditional systems, Qlik view is not
revealed with query based tools. The program enables the user to create and deploy the
business requirements, shorter time value and more insight across the company (Kimball, Ross,
Mundy and Thornthwaite, 2015).
Birst
Birst is the cloud hosted business intelligence tool that is used to handle the conditions of the
data related to the end user. This is called the 2-tier approach. The main approach of the Birst
is to get the data and operate it through the Extract, Transform and load process and helps to
create a warehouse of the data automatically. Birst allows the access of the data to the
relevant users with the assistance of the analytics and the reporting tools (FinanceOnline.com,
2017).
Features
The predictions are standardised
With the list of the features such as native and the offline mobile support, the applications of
the embedded nature function in the most refined and automated way. The integrated member
ensures that all the data is refined in a proper and the segregated manner. On the top notch the
Birst also enables the predictive models and fits the same into the dashboards and helps to
keep the data transparent (Birst, 2018).

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Diverse connectivity options
Users can effortlessly take out the important information and the lot of connectivity options
are also available. There are numerous integrations which on which the third party relies and
also help the developers to build their own connection. It also promotes the reliable customer
support as the Birst cares for its users and provides the facility of the visualisation and
exploration (Azaria, 2018).
Quote based pricing
Birst takes care of the users like a family and the biggest example of such an event is the
quote based pricing. The personalised package is drafted by the teams and tries to wrap up
the amount which suit according to the budget of each individual. At the same time the
companies also possess the chances to make a choice of the extra features and the
functionalities.
Recommendations and Conclusion
After having an understanding of the Business Intelligence tools, it can be concluded that in
this automated world the tools are necessary. It makes the work easy as well as secure form
the point of view of the large and the voluminous transactions. Moreover there are many
firms and the organisations which are moving towards this platform. The Business
Intelligence tools acts as data variants which facilitate the movement of the data from the
centre hub to its small locations. Therefore every company should have at least one business
intelligence tool installed to be in the competition with the other companies and to set a grip
over the technology.

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References
Azaria, A., Orad, A., YURISTA, G.L., Boyangu, G., Farkash, E. and Marko, O., Sisense Ltd,
(2018) System and method for efficiently generating responses to queries. U.S. Patent Application
15/439,231.
Birst, (2018) overview [online] Available from https://www.birst.com/ [Accessed on 28th
August 2018]
FiannceOnline.com, (2017) What is Birst? [online] Available from
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Kimball, R., Ross, M., Mundy, J. and Thornthwaite, W., (2015) The kimball group reader: Relentlessly
practical tools for data warehousing and business intelligence remastered collection. John Wiley &
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Troyansky, O., Gibson, T. and Leichtweis, C., (2015) QlikView Your Business: An Expert Guide to
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Wu, D.D., Chen, S.H. and Olson, D.L., (2014) Business intelligence in risk management: Some recent
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