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5 Best Pieces of Business Intelligence Software

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Oscar Waterworth
5 Best Pieces of Business Intelligence Software

There is a common myth that businessmen used to make important decisions based on just a hunch.This, however, is not exactly true. Sure, you can get lucky once or twice, but when luck runs out, you usually tend to lose more than you gained. Furthermore, sometimes this gut feeling will be nothing else than subconsciously recognizing a pattern from your previous business deal and making your decision based on its success. In 2017, you no longer need to make resolutions based on subjective factors but on real-life data, carefully organized and processed by sophisticated business intelligence software. Here are five.

Clear Analytics

A lot of laymen fear grappling new business intelligence software fearing that it will be extremely complicated to master. Of course, this fear is completely unfounded. You see, clear analytics has an MS Excel-like layout, which means that you will receive all the information you need in an old and familiar format. Because of that, it also has a user-friendly learning curve which makes it great for your first business intelligent software. 

Oracle Hyperion System

If you are looking for a tool to help you make better financial decisions, you cannot go wrong with Oracle Hyperion System. The goal of this software is to help you facilitate budget planning and financial forecasting. In turn, this helps you compose the most cost-effective agenda and do so in a smaller time-span. Another advantage that this system brings is a fact that it can be integrated with desktop and mobile devices, which means that it accommodates to most users.

Panorama

Panorama is a BI software that delivers a holistic approach to your business infrastructure. It helps provide analytics, top-notch security, an option of multiple data sources and of course, is able to work in dashboards and KPI alerts. This way, instead of getting fragments, you get the whole picture. The greatest problem with the data you gather is that although it is objective, on its own, it is inconclusive. Only when processed, this data becomes information you can make your business decisions on. This is where Panorama steps in with its innovative presentations and infographics. 

Sisense

For those who are desperately hoping to avoid complicated IT processes, there is nothing that can measure up to Sisense. Even though the aforementioned three pieces of software are not exactly difficult to use, Sisense has taken one step further to become beginner friendly. The analysis and display of information are highly graphical, which gives you a much easier time figuring your way around. Dashboards are interactive, which further makes your job of information entry and extraction much simpler. All in all, a great addition to your software arsenal.

SAS Business Intelligence

One of the major concerns people have when it comes to most business trends is scalability. You see, even though something suits your business at the moment, it is not necessarily that it will remain so in the future. Switching your IT infrastructure can be extremely expensive in both time and money, which is something that should be avoided at all times. This is where SAS Business intelligence comes in big, with its centralized metadata and great scalability. No matter what direction your business takes, you can rest assured that this BI software can follow through. Furthermore, it gives you a free trial to check it out, although you would need to pay for contact.

Conclusion

The abovementioned five are a great choice for startups, SMBs, and even larger enterprises. However, no list would be so long to mention all BI worth considering. Some honorable mentions are Bime, Adaptive Suite, and Yellowfin BI. Sure, it would be absurd to say there is one that is clearly superior to others. Each comes with its set of flaws and advantages, so it is really the question of how successfully it integrates with your business more than anything else.

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