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Commercial BI Tools

Oracle BI

Oracle BI (2) Information delivery enhancements – new features and

capabilities within Interactive Dashboards, Answers, Reporting and Publishing, Delivers, and Disconnected, as well as enhanced support for alternative channels suh as enterprise portals

BI Server enhancements – improved new features to lower cost of ownership and improve the simplicity of administration

Oracle Fusion Middleware and Database integration – integration with key Oracle infrastructure products to lower cost and complexity while extending BI capabilities

New data source integration – integration with and optimization for new data sources, enabling even greater business insight from virtually any enterprise data source

Security enhancements – enhancements for security, identity managements, and audit

SAS BI Web and desktop reporting

A wide variety of targeted, fit-to-task interfaces for report building, viewing and distribution open the world of SAS intelligence to all types of users with varying needs and skills, speeding better decision making while relieving the burden on IT.

Portal and customizable dashboardsBusiness users can access aggregated information via an easy-to-use, role-based Web portal. It includes point-and-click dashboard development, enabling users to create and customize their own dashboards in just minutes from virtually any data source.

Microsoft Office integrationBusiness users have seamless access to SAS business intelligence and analytics from within their Microsoft Office applications, making it simple for them to access data, perform queries and analysis, and create reports. They can use familiar Microsoft Office functionality to distribute results to decision makers.

SAS BI (2) Query and analysis

Information producers can easily access and query data on their own without having to learn new skills or make constant demands on IT for data and reports.

Interactive business visualizationInteractive visualization capabilities enable information producers to dynamically explore data, investigate patterns and uncover hidden facts. An extensive suite of customizable graphic presentation options present information and insights to information consumers that are not easily detected in tabular formats.

OLAP storage and OLAP data exploration interfaceA powerful, multidimensional database is designed to handle large volumes of business intelligence data, and a specialized interface makes it easy to build and maintain OLAP data storage cubes. Business users can use their Web browsers to quickly and interactively look at summaries of large volumes of data from multiple angles.

SAP BI

Advanced analyticsDashboards and visualization Information infrastructureQuery, reporting, and analysisSearch and exploration

Advanced analytics

Relying on sophisticated analytic engines that can access both numeric and text data, these tools interrogate complex historical data to look for trends, outliers, and patterns through a visual interface.

Dashboards and visualization

Transform how you view your business by interacting with sophisticated visual representations of processes and performance. Perform what-if analysis with your dashboards to gain new insights – and make informed decisions.

Query, reporting, and analysis Let end users interact with business

information and answer ad hoc questions themselves – without having to understand complex database languages and underlying structures

Search and exploration

Simplicity of exploration and speed of search define these user-friendly search and navigation tools.

Comparison between Commercial BI Tool

Oracle SAS BI SAP BIReport Tighter

integration with Fusion Middleware Platform, Simplify administration and management, Address top supportability areas with architectural changes

A wide variety of targeted, fit-to-task interfaces for report building, viewing and distribution open the world

design and format interactive reports, and share them internally and externally. Securely deliver and explore your reports via Ms.Office

Comparison between Commercial BI Tool cont.

Oracle SAS BI SAP BIDashboard Good

security with User Proxy Authentication

Portal and Customisable

interactive analytics and dashboards with secure

Comparison between Commercial BI Tool cont.

Oracle SAS BI SAP BIQuery and analysis

Also service ad hoc queries

easily access and query data on their own without having to learn new skills

interact with business information and answer ad hoc questions

Open Source BI Tools

Jaspersoft A single, modular product architecture that

supports shared services, plug-ins, and add-ons

Web-based, thin-client, end-user interfaces that leverage modern interactive Web 2.0 technology such as Ajax and DHTML

Full access to modifiable source code and customizable UIs

A common platform for on-premise and on-demand use—fully SaaS enabled including built-in multi-tenancy

Jaspersoft (2) Open web standards such as J2EE, open XML

object definitions, HTTP, JSP, SOA web services, and CSS integration

Unicode and multilingual support with full internationalization of the product functionality

Small foot-print and 100% pure Java architecture

Powerful security including single sign-on, row and column level data security, and user/role repository access security

SpagoBI

SpagoBI has got the following main modules: SpagoBI Server, the BI platform which includes all

the analytical tools, the management of security and visibility rules, the administration tools

SpagoBI Studio, the new integrated development environment

SpagoBI Meta, the new environment focused on metadata

SpagoBI SDK, the new integration layer to use SpagoBI from external tools

SpagoBI Applications, to collect the vertical analytical models built using SpagoBI

Pentaho The Pentaho Open BI Suite consists of a BI

platform, end-user BI capabilities, and the Pentaho Design Studio :

The BI platform provides an execution framework and services that include logging, auditing, security, scheduling, ETL, web services, attribute repository and rules engines.

The end-user BI capabilities include reporting, analysis, workflow, dashboards, and data mining.

Pentaho (2) The Pentaho Design Studio is a set of design and

administration tools that are integrated into the popular Eclipse environment. These tools allow business analysts or developers to create reports, dashboards, analysis models, business rules, and BI processes.

The BI platform and end-user BI capabilities form the Pentaho Server. BI solutions are as designed using the Pentaho Design Studio and deployed to the Pentaho Server. The Pentaho Server is the runtime engine, driven by the workflow engine, which coordinates the execution and communication between all the BI Components.

Comparison between Open Source BI

Factors Jaspersoft SpagoBI PentahoPlatform Web-based,

thin-client, end-user interfaces that leverage modern interactive Web 2.0 technology such as Ajax and DHTML

Web based Web based

Comparison between Open Source BI cont.

Factors Jaspersoft SpagoBI PentahoEdition Have paid one,

integrated with jasper database server. Another one is Jaspersoft Community Projects, Jaspersoft Community Projects provide basic business intelligence functionality for open source developers who want to add standalone or integrated BI capabilities to their applications and operational processes.

It's a free open source project: no enterprise or professional edition!

It’s a POSS project that try to bridge between pure open source and proprietary BI tools.

Comparison between Open Source BI cont.

Factors Jaspersoft SpagoBI PentahoOpen source Full access to

modifiable source code and customizable UIs

SpagoBI goes further than other open source projects, because it provides a unified view or, in other words, a higher level of abstraction, both for data access and for user interaction

A process-centric, solution-oriented platform with BI components that enable companies to develop complete solutions to BI problems.

Comparison of BI Tools

Comparison of BI Tools Overall, the commercial BI tools have better

security, and more interactive dashboard and reporting, faster search and exploration features. They can synchronise to Microsoft Office applications.

Actually, the open source BI tools have complete features too as the commercial ones, but the less flexible, because they will have difficult synchronisation with Microsoft Office applications. They have less security too.

References http://

www.oracle.com/Fappserver/Fbusiness-intelligence/docs/oracle-bi-ee-new-features-10gr3.

http://www.sas.com/technologies/bi/entbiserver/index.html#section=3

www.jaspersoft.com Pentaho Open Source Business Intelligence Platform

Technical White Paper (2006)