Pentaho: The Ultimate Tool for Business Analytics and Reporting Pentaho is an open-source business intelligence (BI) and data integration platform. It provides a suite of tools for data management and analytics. Key components include Pentaho Data Integration (PDI), Report Designer, Analyzer, Dashboard Designer, Data Mining (Weka), and Metadata...

Data or information is in raw format. The increase in size of the data has lead to a rise in need for carrying out inspection, data cleaning, transformation as well as data modeling to gain insights from the data in order to derive conclusions for better decision making process. This process is known as data analysis.Data Mining is a popular type...

Maturity Matrices are a term given to what is essentially a “checklist” whose purpose is to evaluate how well developed a particular process or program is.It is a rather grand name for what can be a very simple paper-based system.  However do not let the simplicity give a false impression! Maturity Matrices are one of the most powerful...

Solution Assessment and Validation is the procss of ensuring that the solution built matches the requirements. Solution Assessment Once requirements are handed to the solutions team the business analyst will be expected to assess the design returned to the project team. The Business analyst maintains much of the project's intelectual...

What is Six Sigma? Six Sigma is a quality management approach that benefits individual or organizations to minimize/eliminate defects in products and services. It is a group of techniques which helps you in quality improvement. Six Sigma methodology is based on statistical analysis instead of guesswork to improve processes with unknown...

What is BI ? BI stands for Business Intelligence, refers to set of techniques which helps in searching, finding and analyzing best data or relevant info out of huge data for good business decision making. Suppose if CEO request for any account information then he/she get touch base with accountant for information and in return accountant...

MicroStrategy designed and built its MicroStrategy platform from the ground up with the goal of easy Internet accessibility, rapid deployment, fast responses to report requests, and sophisticated analysis and reporting functionality. The following diagram shows the rich set of business intelligence functionality that the MicroStrategy platform...

Tableau is a Business Intelligence tool for visually analyzing the data. Users can create and distribute an interactive and shareable dashboard, which depict the trends, variations, and density of the data in the form of graphs and charts. Tableau can connect to files, relational and Big Data sources to acquire and process data. The software...

SAS is a leader in business analytics. Through innovative analytics it caters to business intelligence and data management software and services. SAS transforms data into insight which can give a fresh perspective on business.Unlike other BI tools available in the market, SAS takes an extensive programming approach to data transformation and...

ORACLE BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE ENTERPRISE EDITION (OBIEE) is a BI tool by Oracle Corporation. It gathers, stores, and analyzes data to provide enterprise reports, dashboards, scorecards, ad-hoc analysis. The OLAP provides a rich end-user experience. Oracle Bl also offers a group of web-based tools for reporting and analyzing data based around...