Comparison of Business Analytics Tools

COMPARISON OF BUSINESS ANALYTICS TOOLS
STATISTICS
5/28/2019

Contents
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE.........................................................................................................................
BI TOOLS..................................................................................................................................................
Major BI Tools......................................................................................................................................
QlikView...........................................................................................................................................
Klipfolio............................................................................................................................................
Tableau............................................................................................................................................
Geckoboard.....................................................................................................................................
Power BI..........................................................................................................................................
Google Data Studio..........................................................................................................................
CONCLUSION...........................................................................................................................................
REFERENCES............................................................................................................................................
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
Business Intelligence is a combination fo technologies and strategies for business information
data analytics used by enterprises. Business intelligence has the common functions that
include text mining, data mining, complex event processing, online analytical processing,
business performance management, prescriptive analytics, benchmarking, predictive
analytics, process mining and analytics [1].
BI TOOLS
There are numerous business tools, which solve business problems, deliver promising results
and deliver several business benefits. So, by seeing the company and software it is difficult to
compare and select the best out of them. Hence, the better way is to consider the reviews of
the BI tool users [2]. BI collects feedback from the users more than 3000 and so far collected
for 18 years, comparing 37 prominent business intelligence tools.
Major BI Tools
QlikView
QlikView has the features that help to explore and discover the business data, right in the
workflow, just how developers do work, while data processing. This tool can maintain the
association among variety of data to provide flexibility in the data visualization and
exploration approaches. This feature facilitates the data discovery by the end-user, who seeks
a specific data piece being aware of any relevant item retrieval, in any circumstances, though
the search items origins applicable are disjoint incredibly. It needs the ability to integrate the
queries and apply programmatic interface.

The best part is that the QlikView is incredibly flexible and it facilitates each and every
object’s little aspect and customizes feel and look of the dashboards and visualizations [5].
The same flexibility also offers and incorporates ETL Engine that performs data cleansing
operations. The challenge to use by many users is the cost of it, which is very expensive.
Product Differentiators
Multiple QlikView products were developed with the features of pre-built
dashboard applications with avant-garde and associative dashboards that are
intuitive and innovative for usage. The products have advanced search
capabilities that can avoid data warehouses usage and pull up the data in-
memory using the dashboards.
Features
The basic features of QlikView are:
 Flexibility
 Uniqueness
 Varied and useful applications suitable for any industries with varied
scales
 Enable to create advanced dashboards from varies sources, on the
basis of data
 Ability to data associations manipulations, automatically
 Faster dashboard development process, because of automation of
relationship between data items
 Input data stores in-memory for many hours, allowing faster queries
and faster data exploration
 More memory-efficient
Usability
 Easy to navigate reports from dashboards by ordinary users also
 Report building needs higher developer skills, training and
proficiency
Pricing
Most expensive in the field of BI
Klipfolio
Klipfolio stands as the solution of business intelligence and stores in 100% in the cloud. It is
a good insightful tool for dashboard comparison and data visualization and allows efficient
data processing, boosting solutions and optimization in real time, not relying on the model of
periodical regression.
Klipfolio supports data sources connectivity, both offline and online. Online sources can
integrate could-hosted storages, that include Relational DBs, Google Sheets and other data
forms in a wider range. Connection possibilities span to varied marketing tools, such as