Top 5 Business Intelligence Companies

Here is a list of Top 5 Business Intelligence Companies(not in strict order):

1. SAS: SAS has over years morphed from a statistical software company to fullfledged Business Intelligence company giving business solutions
2. COGNOS: Cognos products are very good in their look and feel and overall visual appeal
3. QlikTech: This is one of the disruptive innovators, they have a unique in-memory-database architecture
4. BusinessObjects: BO has been very good as a departmental Business Intelligence solution
5. Microstrategy: Considered to be a very strong enterprise Business Intelligence platform

Business Intelligence 101

Business Intelligence covers following features:

1. Reporting
2. OLAP
3. Dashboarding
4. Workflow
5. Predictive Data Modeling and Data Mining
6. Portal Integration
7. Dials and other visual reports
8. Single Metadata Repository

Business Intelligence

This blog is started to consolidate all the knowledge I have gathered over last few years working on various enterprise software solutions more specifically Business Intelligence solutions.