Business Intelligence Tools: Overview, Looker, and Dundas BI

This assignment provides an overview of business intelligence (BI) tools, focusing on Looker and Dundas BI. The report begins with an introduction to BI tools, explaining their role in retrieving and analyzing data to transform it into actionable insights. It highlights the importance of BI in today's data-driven world. The report then delves into Looker, describing its cloud-based features for data exploration and analysis, and its ability to integrate data from multiple sources. The features of Looker are listed. Following this, Dundas BI is presented as a tool for real-time business performance monitoring and data visualization through dashboards, along with its key features. The report concludes with recommendations, emphasizing the necessity of BI tools for organizations to gain a competitive edge, and suggests that organizations should invest in BI tools based on their budget. The report references several sources to support its analysis.

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Table of Contents
Overview....................................................................................................................................2
Looker.....................................................................................................................................3
Features of Looker..............................................................................................................3
Dundas BI...............................................................................................................................4
Features of Dundas BI........................................................................................................4
Recommendations and Conclusion............................................................................................4
References..................................................................................................................................6

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Overview
Business intelligence tools in the process and the technology or kind of application software
which is designed mainly to retrieve the data, analyse the raw information and transform the
information into the business intelligence software. The applications generally read the data
which have been stored previously at different locations. These locations are also called the
data warehouse or the data mart (Pydynowski and Larson, Capital One Financial Corporation,
2018). The examples included by the business intelligence tool to retrieve the data are books,
documents, emails, journals, images and other business sources.
Typically used for the querying and the reporting the business intelligence tools can
amalgamate the set of data analysis and the applications which are inclusive of the ad hoc
analysis. There are numerous business intelligence tools being developed every year (Wu
Chen and Olson, 2014). Few of them which have been recently introduced are Dundas BI,
yellow Fin, Looker and a lot more. Commonly utilized for the questioning and the
announcing the business insight software which can amalgamate the arrangement of
information examination and the applications which are comprehensive of the specially
appointed investigation (Bernardino and Tereso, 2013).

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(Source: Finance online, 2018)
Looker
Looker is business intelligence software that utilises the cloud based settings to majorly
explore the data and have an in-depth analysis of the same. The Looker solution helps the
businesses to capture and retrieve the data from the multiple sources and helps the business to
take the decisions quickly. Looker form the teams to scrutinise supply chains, digitalise the
market transactions, interpret the behaviour of the general customer and to evaluate the
processes of the business (Software advice, 2015). The Looker arrangement encourages the
organizations to catch and recover the information from the various sources and causes the
business to take the choices rapidly.
Features of Looker
 The solution helps to benefit the organization by having handy visualisation

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 It has the strong collaboration features and the application is accessible on any
browser.
 Looker is a data discovery and the people can use easy language calle LOOKML to
create further mini applications (Finance online, 2018).
Dundas BI
Dundas BI is the business intelligence tool used by the enterprises and the organizations
which helps the business to monitor and measure the performance and business in the real
time. The tool helps to visualise the data on the dashboard and helps to grasp the insight of
the valuable and the accurate decisions. The dashboard of the Dundas BI allows the user to
filter and sort the data (Dundas, 2017).
Features of Dundas BI
 The Dundas BI provides the easy, smart and the drop design tool to make the
dashboards more attractive
 The ease to customize and create personal dashboards is the main key driver of the
Dundas BI intelligence software (Dundas, 2017).
 The users can calculate advanced equations with the help of the calculative interface.
Recommendations and Conclusion
The above analysis gave an insight of the business intelligence tool and helps to gain
knowledge of the recent business intelligence tools. The Business intelligence tools make the
life of an individual as well as the organisation easy and with its numerous features the
business intelligence tool caters the need very well. The tool acts in different versions and
facilitates the movement of the data on any browser and also in the small locations. It makes
the work easy and secure and therefore it can be concluded that the business intelligence tool

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are the necessity in today’s digital world. Henceforth, it is recommended that every
organisation shall install according to their budget to have an edge over the competitors.

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References
Bernardino, J. and Tereso, M., (2013) Business intelligence tools. In Computational
Intelligence and Decision Making (pp. 267-276). New York: Springer,
Dundas, (2017) Dundas BI product features [online] Available from
https://www.dundas.com/dundas-bi/features [Accessed on 1st September 2018]
Finance online, (2018) Looker REVIEW [online] Available from
https://reviews.financesonline.com/p/looker/ [Accessed on 1st September 2018]
Pydynowski, M.C. and Larson, B.J., Capital One Financial Corporation, (2018) SYSTEMS
AND METHODS FOR MERCHANT BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE TOOLS. U.S. Patent
Application 15/813,688.
Software advice, (2015) Looker software [online] Available from
https://www.softwareadvice.com/bi/looker-profile/ [Accessed on 1st September 2018]
Wu, D.D., Chen, S.H. and Olson, D.L., (2014) Business intelligence in risk management:
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